A small courtyard garden designed for a young family and a rather large dog.
Location: Barnsbury N1
Small urban back garden 150 sq m
Consultation and Brief: This project required a space that would work for a young family with a baby and a large dog.
Initially the garden was overgrown. It had a lot of lovely plants but unfortunately it needed to be cleared and opened up into a more spacious area that could be maintained more easily.
Garden Design Implementation:
We divided the space into three sections. The patio nearest the house was paved using buff coloured sandstone. The main entertaining area was paved in clay pavers and surrounded with brick raised beds. The beds had to be raised to protect any future planting from the large family dog.
Between the two patio areas we also included a small multi-stem focal tree to soften the hard landscaping and to act as both a transitional space and area for their dog.
Some of the original planting such as the mature climbers and a specimen Bay tree were saved. We also added some large specimen shrubs in decorative terracotta pots and a lighting scheme.
Materials:
Buff sandstone, self-binding gravel, Aureum Vande Moortel clay pavers, frost resistant terracotta clay pots, Lighting.
Planting:
Trees: Multi-stem Acer ‘Ichigyoji’
Shrubs and climbers: Pittosporum ‘Golf Ball’, Lavandula ‘Edelweiss’, Pittosporum tobira ‘Nanum’, Lonicera periclymenum, Clematis ‘Alba Plena’ Trachelospermum jasminoides
Grasses: Miscanthus ‘Kleine Silberspinne’, Hakonechloa macra, Luzula nivea
Perennials: Veronicastrum ‘Album’, Libertia grandiflora, Tellima grandiflora, Sanguisorba menziesii, Salvia ‘Caradonna’, Salvia nemorosa ‘White Sensation’, Alchemilla mollis, Erigeron karvinskianus, Thymus vulgare
Location: Barnsbury N1
Small urban back garden 150 sq m
Consultation and Brief: This project required a space that would work for a young family with a baby and a large dog.
Initially the garden was overgrown. It had a lot of lovely plants but unfortunately it needed to be cleared and opened up into a more spacious area that could be maintained more easily.
Garden Design Implementation:
We divided the space into three sections. The patio nearest the house was paved using buff coloured sandstone. The main entertaining area was paved in clay pavers and surrounded with brick raised beds. The beds had to be raised to protect any future planting from the large family dog.
Between the two patio areas we also included a small multi-stem focal tree to soften the hard landscaping and to act as both a transitional space and area for their dog.
Some of the original planting such as the mature climbers and a specimen Bay tree were saved. We also added some large specimen shrubs in decorative terracotta pots and a lighting scheme.
Materials:
Buff sandstone, self-binding gravel, Aureum Vande Moortel clay pavers, frost resistant terracotta clay pots, Lighting.
Planting:
Trees: Multi-stem Acer ‘Ichigyoji’
Shrubs and climbers: Pittosporum ‘Golf Ball’, Lavandula ‘Edelweiss’, Pittosporum tobira ‘Nanum’, Lonicera periclymenum, Clematis ‘Alba Plena’ Trachelospermum jasminoides
Grasses: Miscanthus ‘Kleine Silberspinne’, Hakonechloa macra, Luzula nivea
Perennials: Veronicastrum ‘Album’, Libertia grandiflora, Tellima grandiflora, Sanguisorba menziesii, Salvia ‘Caradonna’, Salvia nemorosa ‘White Sensation’, Alchemilla mollis, Erigeron karvinskianus, Thymus vulgare
“We worked with Landspace to overhaul our back garden and we could not be more pleased with the result. The design concepts that Kate came up with were wonderfully creative and gave us options that we hadn’t previously considered and that we ended up being extremely happy with. Seb and the whole construction team were a pleasure to work with.
They are extremely professional and detail-oriented and were conscientious of taking care of our home – no small feat as the only access to the garden was through the house. We would 100% recommend Landspace!”
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