An unusually large L-Shaped front garden designed with privacy and noise reduction in mind.
Location: Highbury, N5
Small urban front entrance garden 150 sq m
Consultation and Brief:
This was an interesting property to work on. Originally it was a caretaker’s house (now converted), on the grounds of a Victorian school. The Victorian school has been converted into flats.
At our initial meeting the area was surfaced with an old artificial lawn and uneven concrete paving. It was also overlooked and required some privacy. The clients wanted a place to relax and to be surrounded by plants that would attract wildlife.
Their house in Islington has been extended and modernised. The original part of the building was built with a mix of yellow and red stock bricks in various laying patterns and the new extension has been clad in a bronze-coloured zinc cladding. The entrance gate to the building consists of an original Victorian section of high wall and iron railings.
It was important to sympathetically consider all of these materials and elements. We needed to make sure that the design related back to the building.
Garden Design Implementation:
We decided to use a bronze-sepia toned clay paver that complimented the modern part of the architecture. This was contrasted with the grey, warm-toned sandstone that we used for the patio areas and for the cladding on the raised beds.
A grey stained pergola structure was designed to create more privacy and we extended this across the entrance path.
Materials:
Sepia clay pavers, grey sawn sandstone, painted softwood.
Planting:
The central courtyard space now features a gently trickling, infinity water feature that is surrounded by a colourful mixed planting scheme.
Trees: Silver birch trees (Betula utillis var. jacquemontii) were planted in a row along the boundary to add height, movement and privacy from the adjacent flats. A focal specimen tree Amelanchier lamarckii was planted at the front nearest the road.
Shrubs: Pinus mugo ‘Mops’, Pittosporum ‘Nanum’, Hydrangea, Sarcococca confusa. Griselinia planted as a hedge along front boundary to main road.
Climbers: Hydrangea anomala
Grasses: Miscanthus, Calamagrostis, Luzula, Hakonechloa
Perennials: Alchemilla, Agastache, Paeonia, Veronicastrum, Salvia
The garden also included lighting and irrigation.
Location: Highbury, N5
Small urban front entrance garden 150 sq m
Consultation and Brief:
This was an interesting property to work on. Originally it was a caretaker’s house (now converted), on the grounds of a Victorian school. The Victorian school has been converted into flats.
At our initial meeting the area was surfaced with an old artificial lawn and uneven concrete paving. It was also overlooked and required some privacy. The clients wanted a place to relax and to be surrounded by plants that would attract wildlife.
Their house in Islington has been extended and modernised. The original part of the building was built with a mix of yellow and red stock bricks in various laying patterns and the new extension has been clad in a bronze-coloured zinc cladding. The entrance gate to the building consists of an original Victorian section of high wall and iron railings.
It was important to sympathetically consider all of these materials and elements. We needed to make sure that the design related back to the building.
Garden Design Implementation:
We decided to use a bronze-sepia toned clay paver that complimented the modern part of the architecture. This was contrasted with the grey, warm-toned sandstone that we used for the patio areas and for the cladding on the raised beds.
A grey stained pergola structure was designed to create more privacy and we extended this across the entrance path.
Materials:
Sepia clay pavers, grey sawn sandstone, painted softwood.
Planting:
The central courtyard space now features a gently trickling, infinity water feature that is surrounded by a colourful mixed planting scheme.
Trees: Silver birch trees (Betula utillis var. jacquemontii) were planted in a row along the boundary to add height, movement and privacy from the adjacent flats. A focal specimen tree Amelanchier lamarckii was planted at the front nearest the road.
Shrubs: Pinus mugo ‘Mops’, Pittosporum ‘Nanum’, Hydrangea, Sarcococca confusa. Griselinia planted as a hedge along front boundary to main road.
Climbers: Hydrangea anomala
Grasses: Miscanthus, Calamagrostis, Luzula, Hakonechloa
Perennials: Alchemilla, Agastache, Paeonia, Veronicastrum, Salvia
The garden also included lighting and irrigation.
“Seb, Kate and the Team are a delight to work with. Kate’s smart and attractive design seamlessly incorporates some existing elements and allows us to fully use the whole garden. The Team are to be commended for the high standard of their workmanship and attention to detail. Kate’s plant choices blend perfectly a more natural woodland effect with the formal landscaping.
The garden is now much easier to look after and we are able to spend more time enjoying it rather than trying to maintain it. We’ve received lots of compliments from neighbours.
Thank you Seb, Kate and the team. We are happy to recommend you.”
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