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title: Astrantia Garden Care - Garden case study - No 6
description: A garden designed for mindfulness with bubbling water and space for fruit and vegetables. Discover our expert redesign and maintenance services.
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## 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

#### Key plants:

*Hydrangea aborescens* 'Annabelle'; *Ficus carica*; *Echinops ritro; Salvia rosmarinus; Verbena bonariensis; Choisya ternata; Campanula portenschlagiana; Veronicastrum virginicum '*Album'*; Geranium Rozanne* ('Gerwat' PBR); *Rosa* 'New Dawn'; *Rosa* 'Iceberg'; *Erigeron karvinskianus; Hylotelephium spectabile '*Autumn Joy'; *Bergenia cordifolia* 'Rotblum'

- ![20250613_201336](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/20250613_201336.jpg?width=4000&height=2250&name=20250613_201336.jpg)
  
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- ![No 6 Bench](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Bench.jpg?width=2000&height=1125&name=No%206%20Bench.jpg)
  
   Bench with Verbena bonariensis
- ![No 6 Water](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Water.jpg?width=2000&height=1125&name=No%206%20Water.jpg)
  
  Corten steel trough with bubbler fountain
- ![No 6 Echinops ritro](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Echinops%20ritro.jpg?width=4000&height=3000&name=No%206%20Echinops%20ritro.jpg)
  
   Echinops ritro
- ![No 6 Fig-1](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Fig-1.jpg?width=2812&height=2250&name=No%206%20Fig-1.jpg)
  
   Ficus carica and Salvia rosmarinus
- ![No 6 Vegetable bed](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Vegetables.jpg?width=2000&height=1125&name=No%206%20Vegetables.jpg)
  
  Productive space
- ![Greenhouse](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/20250529_151733.jpg?width=4000&height=2250&name=20250529_151733.jpg)
  
   New greenhouse
- ![No 6 Containers](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Containers.jpg?width=2000&height=1125&name=No%206%20Containers.jpg)
  
  *Salvia amistad* with
  
  *Oxalis triangularis*
- ![No 6 Before 1](https://www.astrantia-garden-care.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/No%206%20Before%201.jpg?width=510&height=563&name=No%206%20Before%201.jpg)
  
   Before

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