Leafy Terraced Garden
Making sense of a long, sloping garden to create sectional ‘garden room’ spaces which cater to the whole family and deliver year-round interest. Our brief included integrating entertainment areas for an out-door kitchen and seating space, a lawn for play, a path through the garden down to the previously installed garden room in order to link it to the home and creation of additional parking space at the front of the house.
We started by creating beautiful sight lines from the house down through the garden to the garden room and designing a simple path that winds through parts of the garden, and at points hugs the sides to allow clear areas of lawn and generous entertaining spaces. The movement of the path makes the garden feel bigger and acts as a thread connecting the long space. We terraced the garden to create separate “garden room” zones - a lawn with beds, a bbq and dining area, a seating area and a beautiful planting area overlooked by the outdoor room.
Beautifully crafted fieldstone walls take in the level changes and provide structure to house a Green Egg bbq and worktop area as well as offering spots to perch and enjoy the planting.
The curved lawn gives a sense of expanse and accommodates garden football. Our planting design takes you on a journey through the garden - shade tolerant planting under the mature trees at the top of the garden moves into vibrant, colourful planting in the middle and lower garden. We preserved the best of the trees giving the garden a sense of maturity and added to them with beautiful multi-stem Amelenchiers, Magnolias and Japanese Acers for structure and mid height planting.
The garden is planted for year-round interest, starting early with spring bulbs and blossom, swathes of bright flowers in summer, autumn leaf colour and fruits and winter structure later in the year comes from evergreen shrubs, perennial grasses and seedheads.
The design delivers a beautiful, generous garden with more usable areas to cater to the varying needs of the family.
