• The Rankin garden

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    The Rankin garden

    A small country garden with access issues:
    Creating an interesting scheme while addressing the main practical limits of a small space can result in a very beautiful garden.
    In this design a number of paths were created to allow access through a shared front garden. Feature planting and careful choice of materials enabled a strong structure to [...]

  • Sleepers with foliage

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    Sleepers with foliage

    Linking different areas of a much larger garden together can provide some of the hardest challenges within garden design, creating a scheme that incorporates many contrasting functions and flows harmoniously.
    In this much larger example we have incorporated some very large elements into the space without destroying the underlying character of the garden. Winding paths [...]

  • Bushes and fountains

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    Bushes and fountains

    This design is typical of the way both character and architectural features of the building can be translated into the garden alongside a very open-minded client brief.
    In this example the emphasis was placed on careful division of uses within the garden, omitting any form of lawn to create a highly structured design that blended a [...]

Latest blog posts

Spring bulbs

Spring Bulbs go a long way to extending the period of interest in a garden, it was a really pleasant surprise to visit one such garden we lavished with spring bulbs last year including Tulipa ‘Peerless Pink’ and Tulipa ‘Queen of the Night’. The simple blocks of colour are created with random planting of one [...]

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by James | 10 May 2009 at 11:03 am

Rustic decking

Reclaimed sleepers can be used to make a very effective rustic decking as in this example. We have bedded the sleepers vertically on a solid compacted sub base and a 50mm mortar bed to ensure they remain in place. The uneven surface has been minimized through careful selection of sleeper and adjustment of height during [...]

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by James | 8 May 2009 at 1:34 pm

Green roof project

Having recently completed a small garden makeover on a small garden in Putney last month we were asked to renovate the existing garden shed with the addition of a green roof. The idea was to maximise the view from the house and create as much garden as possible in a very small space.
A green roof [...]

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by James | 29 March 2009 at 9:14 am