• 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 [...]

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RHS HAMPTON COURT PALACE FLOWER SHOW 2010

Another year passes and we are in the final stages of the build up to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, a lovely family orientated summer show with plenty to see in the way of gardens and plants. 2010 is our tenth year at the show and we hope that it proves as successful [...]

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by James | 28 June 2010 at 5:38 am

MODERN URBAN GARDENS

Work is nearing completion on two very similar projects in central London that are both designed in a modern style to reflect the clients brief and complement elements of the house interior. Despite the similarities both projects have answered a series of specific requirements that included safe play areas and a South East Asian planting [...]

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by James | 10 May 2010 at 7:02 am

Bulbs add stunning effect to spring gardens

Sweeping drifts of Tulipa ‘Ballerina’ and Tulipa ‘Princess Irene’ add great appeal to any garden during spring before the herbaceous plantings come into flower.

This contemporary garden has been designed to give all year round colour and texture, tulips are followed closely in late May and early June by vast tracts of allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’. [...]

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by James | 9 May 2010 at 10:15 am