Luberon-inspired resilient garden
A resilient garden inspired by the hills of the Luberon region, in southern France, and designed to cope with warmer summers and less predictable weather changes.
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Park Crescent’s ‘Garden in the Clouds’
The Garden in the Clouds, in Park Crescent, is a place for children to dream, to engage with plants and to experience nature. Continue reading “Park Crescent’s ‘Garden in the Clouds’”
Bringing New Zealand to Islington
This new planting scheme for a garden in Islington is a tale of two hemispheres, on two counts.
Based in North London, it incorporates a range of plants native to New Zealand, where the owners spent their childhood.
It also has two distinct environments: one side faces south, it is sunny and warm, with well-drained soil, while the other faces north, is in the shade, and the soil remains reliably moist.
But what can appear a challenge in garden design terms is also an opportunity to bring greater variety, while maintaining coherence by playing with shapes and textures.
‘Space for people’ front garden
A low-maintenance gravel garden with simple lines for the front of an angular 1950s brick house located at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. Generous planting softens boundaries, increases kerb appeal, and turns a space that was once a mere access route into one where the owners and their visitors might linger.
North London modernist garden
A garden for a young professional couple in North London, who commute into the city every day and enjoy their outdoor space but have little time to look after it.
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