Posts Tagged ‘Garden Design Surrey’

I’ve been dying to share the pictures of my Leatherhead project with you.  It’s been quite a while since the construction took place, but every time I’ve had an opportunity to take some photos, it’s just been too bright.

The main part of the construction for this job took place over the wet, cold winter months but we had all weathers thrown at us.  From torrential rain to snow and then baking heat and sunburn, we had it all, and  over a period of just two months too!

You may remember this garden and the designs for it, but I thought I’d remind you anyway because it’s undergone quite a transformation.  When I first visited the site, you couldn’t actually see much of the garden…

In fact it wasn’t until the site was cleared that my clients, Nick and Jane, remembered just how much garden they had.

Taking out the large conifers made a huge difference to the space although the school building beyond the boundary has now been exposed.  Eventually the planting will cover it again but funnily enough you only really notice it in the photographs, when you’re in the garden it’s not an issue at all.

Before I share some more pictures of the finished garden I thought you might like a reminder of the concept sketches…

I think you’ll agree that it’s quite different now!?  The site had its challenges, particularly because the levels were quite complex to deal with and we had a couple of drainage issues which meant that we had to make adjustments to the design part-way through the build.

The planting of course needs to fill out, but the perennials have put on some serious growth already and by this time next year, it should feel much more established.

I love the fact that this garden now has structure but it also feels informal.  By creating different areas and terracing the slope we’ve made the whole garden usable.

There are a few finishing touches to make, but these will happen over the next year.  The tree seat, summerhouse and bench are the main elements to come, but we’ll also source the trees in the bare root season when you get more choice and better value for money.

I hope you’ve enjoyed looking back at this garden’s journey – it’s one of my favourite gardens to date.  I love the change in levels and the fact that we’ve managed to deal with these in quite a subtle and cost-effective way.

(Images: Lisa Cox)

I met up with Claire Brown of PlantPassion yesterday and, as it was the first day of the RHS Wisley Flower Show, we decided it was as good a place as any to meet up.  Claire has recently launched a new arm to her business growing English cut flowers at her flower farm in Clandon, Surrey so it was great to catch up. Read more

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with Rona Wheeldon of Flowerona, features Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’. Read more

If you read my blog regularly then you’ll know that I recently visited Loseley Park Garden to take some photos.  I wrote three posts about the garden, but I thought it might be nice to share some of the flower pictures I took whilst I was there too. Read more

This is my final post about my visit to Loseley Park last week.  If you missed my earlier posts about The White Garden, Flower Garden and long water pond, you will find these at the bottom of this one. Read more

I hope you enjoyed my earlier bog post about The White Garden at Loseley Park.  I’m now going to share the images I took of The Flower Garden and long water pond which are my favourite parts of the garden. Read more

It’s been a while since I blogged about some of my projects.  I’ve been busy planting over the past couple of months and because of the challenges that the growers have had to face this year, I’ve had to plant in phases as and when the plants have become available. Read more

Hampton Court Flower Show is now over for this year and the hard work that went into the set up is being dismantled as we speak.  I suspect there are some tired people out there, especially with the high temperatures we’ve been having – shows are tiring at the best of times! Read more

I’ve been out planting today and it was pretty hot despite the fact that the garden has quite a bit of shade.  I was thinking how hot it must have been at Hampton Court today…I bet there are a few burnt bodies this evening! Read more

I was up with the sparrows this morning because I wanted to beat the heat and get to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show whilst the sun was low enough to get some decent pictures of the show gardens.  I arrived at 7.15am which was early enough, but I didn’t have very long before the sun was in full swing. Read more