Sometimes a full design isn’t needed when a client’s garden has either already been designed in the past or there isn’t a need for a lot of new hard landscaping or features. This space just needed a garden design update and some new planting designs.
My clients wanted to keep their existing patio near the house but wanted some ideas for replacing the rotting deck at the end of the garden, reorganising the productive area and some suggestions for what to do with their existing ornamental borders.
The new design includes a slightly different layout for the decking area, replacing the wood with paving to match the existing patio, separating the productive area using attractive trellis fencing and changing the layout of the raised beds, reshaping the existing flower borders and adding another one near the new patio area.
The new look gives the garden a more contemporary layout, defining the different parts of the garden and with the addition of path to link them together and to the house it now has a better flow from one area to another.
The replanting of the borders will include using most of the existing plants and shrubs, some of which will be moved to a different part of the garden where they will grow better. A selection of new varieties combined with the existing ones will give the borders more seasonal interest and biodiversity and a new border next to the repaved decked area at the end of the garden will give this entertainment space (which catches the late afternoon sun) an enclosed feel as well as breaking up the view of it from the house.
The garden before shows the irregular shaped lawn and layout of the other areas before the new design was implemented.