No.6: Garden case study
- Garden redesign
- Planting plan
- Regular ongoing maintenance
The challenge:
Reconfiguring an existing garden to create a dedicated space for mindful contemplation with water feature and seating, plus a separate productive area with a small greenhouse and vegetable beds.
What I did:
- Reshaped and edged the lawn and borders
- Refreshed existing plantings to make them more drought tolerant
- Used a calming harmonious cool colour palette to visually expand the small space
- Added a handmade commemorative bench overlooking a simple corten steel water trough with a bubbler fountain
- Created a dedicated productive space partitioned from the main garden with a rose arbour and trellis panels. (This also hid a custom-made retractable washing line.)
- Built a greenhouse with a paved base and a wooded edged vegetable bed
- Created a gravel path retained in a grid system