Status | Completed 2021

The brief for this garden was to transform a rubble-filled building site into a simple, stylish contemporary family garden that would be viewed and accessed through new bi-fold doors from a combined kitchen, dining and sitting room being created at the rear of the house.

This family-friendly garden needed to be low maintenance and include areas of lawn for play as well as a hard surface access to parking at the rear of the garden.

As a family with young children the clients wanted a more formal adult entertaining space near the house as well as a children's area of the garden that was visible, but felt separate from, the rest of the garden.

A large raised terrace next to the house allows for a generous seating area and a dining table before wide shallow steps lead down to the formal lawn. Structural hedging in yew and hornbeam demarcate space and outline the different areas as well as providing year-round structure and interest.

A bespoke horizontal trellis topper sits on top of the repaired Victorian London-brick walls providing privacy from surrounding houses and a bespoke gate provides secure access to the side passageway.

Winter-flowering cherries and hornbeam columns sit in a border that separates the formal lawn from the children’s lawn. This provides screening both for the houses beyond and also the play area without hiding it away. A colour palette including plums, purples and yellows as well as structural elements including rosemary and grasses soften the formality of the design and provide seasonal interest.

A path runs through both areas leading to a parking area at the end of the garden. Planting along the path, and between the two lawns, provides a long season of interest from both flower and textures.

Size | 500m2

Photography | Nicholas Morton© Copyright