Residential Garden, Witney.

This garden on a new estate was a blank canvas. The owners wanted to make the most of it's West facing orientation but also ensure a spot for shade when required. They wanted winter colour and lots of pretty planting to encourage pollinators and birds to the garden.

We enlarged the patio, incorporating a central planting feature that can be seen from the house in the winter. I wrapped the planting around the patio and added some trees for screening, colour, height and to help attract birds.

The new deck and a pergola with it's retractable roof gives flexibility for all weathers.

At the opposite end of the garden, we added more planting areas that wrap around a decked area which can be used for working or perhaps a spot of yoga!

Residential garden, Witney.

This residential garden in Witney needed a garden makeover having had a kitchen extension. A new porcelain patio was laid and granite gravel added to add colour and texture. 

Three 'L' shaped raised beds were made to break up the upper part of the garden. One wrapped around two sides of the outdoor dining table to make you feel enclosed by the planting. Another was wrapped around a bench, with some topiary trees to provide privacy. A third faced toward the house and was intended as somewhere where the planting could be changed frequently according to the season to provide colour in the garden from the house.

Outdoor lights were added to highlight features such as the palm tree and key structural plants in the garden as well as providing functional lighting to the workshop at the bottom of the garden.

Residential Garden, Woodstock.

This triangular shaped garden need some love.

I gave it some lovely new curves, creating a serpentine path through the garden, adding a planting area of evergreen, shade- loving shrubs close to the shed and a large planting area of colourful perennials and climbers that can be enjoyed from either of the two patios close to the house.

A new lawn was also laid and a small Magnolia tree added to screen the shed from the view of the garden from the conservatory.

The planting needs to develop further but here are a couple of before and after photos.

Residential garden, Lechlade.

The family to whom this garden belonged included two young boys, who needed space to run around. 

I kept the lawn area that the boys used a lot, I extended the patio out into the garden from the back doors of the house, creating a pergola from which the boys will have new swings, the adults some new soft seating and that some colourful climbing plants will find there way up and over.

I added a raised bed along the right hand side with a built in bench seat from which to watch all the fun and games on the lawn and some robust planting to absorb stray footballs.

The garden included a new shed for plenty of storage and I suggested sinking the trampoline into the ground to make it less intrusive.

Residential garden, Chalford.

This historic home was once a mill house when the Stroud valley was home to the textile industry. It has a natural spring at the top of the garden and terraces where the tenter racks would have once stood from where the textiles would have hung on tenter hooks. Mostly sloping it does however have a wonderful flat parterre at the back of the house.

I created a natural swimming pool which would be fed from the natural spring but have a boundary of aquatic plants to act as filters. The parterre became a more formal planted area with focal points and seating from which to admire the view, over the house and down into the valley.

I left a very light touch over the terraces, but created a vertical garden on the steeply sloped area around the parking area and an avenue of trees across the front of the house, where I extended the patio and created a lower, sheltered seating area under the existing trees.

Planting was more formal topiary balls on some of the slopes, but also tracts of lavender, carex buchanaii, hylotelephium telephium 'purple emperor' and large squares of prunus lisitanica hedging.

Residential garden, Freeland.

This lovely home in Freeland needed updating. The children had outgrown the outdoor play equipment and the owner wanted to add a Shepherds Hut for some guest accommodation which could also be in part, an Air BnB.

The garden then need zoning. A private garden for the family, an outdoor patio space for Shepherds hut guests and outdoor seating outside the converted garage space. 

I used some low hedging to create boundaries around the parking area, the garage space and the family garden. Several evergreen trees to screen the Shepherds Hut and some decorative panels and trees to demark the family garden.

Some low raised beds of evergreen planting were added to provide colour  around the Shepherds Hut and two new patios were added, one for Shepherds Hut guests and one for the family garden. In addition, a BBQ space was created, for shared use and a log store.

Residential garden, Witney

This small, west facing garden, needed a refresh. I gave the garden some shapely curves, added another, more shady, seating area enveloped in colourful and textural plants and refreshed the rest of the planting for year-round colour and texture. It already had some well established shrubs, so I added a winter border to be viewed from the house, some evergreen structure and relocated the compost heap to where it couldn't be seen but could still be accessed.

Residential garden, Witney.

This new build garden was somewhat of a blank canvas. North facing but with a large, west facing side return, the client wanted a less-than-zero maintenance garden for entertaining, with a wow factor!

I extended the patio on both sides of the house and zoned off the planting beds with laser cut panels to create an outdoor room to the north. Along the side I added triangular raised beds stuffed with easy, evergreen planting and added a bench seat. In the patio I planted a gorgeous camellia tree as a focal point and we made a smaller raised patio in preparation for an outdoor garden pod in the future.  Soft focal lighting throughout and fire pits completed the space.