Our Portfolio of Gardens
Urban Retreat
This surprisingly spacious urban garden was not being used or enjoyed to its full potential.
We created a large composite deck with a lovely oak pergola, half roofed half open to allow sun worshippers and shade seekers alike to enjoy it.
A kitchen garden replaces some overgrown bamboo, and a pond was carefully shifted to a corner site, preserving its frog population.
Grasses and ferns soften the shady areas of the garden, while colourful perennial planting lights up the sunny parts.
Hanover Gravel Garden
A drought tolerant, fully permeable gravel garden in Hanover, Brighton.
The lack of hard landscaping usually found in this type of garden makes it far cheaper to install than anything involving paving or deck many options, but done well it is utterly transformative.
This type of design works really well in a small urban space, providing a pure hit of colour and texture, and using the planting itself to create hidden seating nooks.
Framing The View
Installing a very simple oak veranda on the back of this house allowed us to create secret spots and the opportunity for exploration in this small garden in Five-ways, Brighton.
The veranda acts as a frame for views from the house, a cover to the scaffold board deck and seating area below and a screen to hide a little fire pit area behind.
Embracing The Slope
We work with a lot of slopes operating as we do largely in and around Brighton. This is a small garden on a steep slope with big views.
We created an outdoor dining areas to enjoy the views from and a cosy, covered section right at the bottom of the slope. Protected from wind and nicely private, the oak pergola and lower patio offer a space for retreat or drinks around the fire pit when the sun has gone down.
The planting emphasis here is on evergreens and foliage.
Elegantly Chunky
Materials are always key, and the combination of 900mm x 200mm black slate plank paving and scaffold board deck, raised to catch as much sunshine as possible, makes for a bold and modern combination.
Chunky oak sleepers complete the look. Coastal planting and Thymus serpyllum coccineus ready to start scrambling from the planting gaps in the patio add softness and life.
Cottage Garden
This planting embraces its cottage setting, creating lots of texture and many tones of foliage.
Blues, greens and whites dominate. While by no means a traditional cottage garden, it take inspiration from that style of dense and lush planting, but using all perennial plants and a toned down colour pallette to give it a more contemporary feel.
