Tag: ornamental plants
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Kitchen Garden
The brief was to create a formal kitchen garden design in the ‘formal kitchen garden’ style. It was to have a strong decorative element, but also the ability to grow edible produce. The Brief Situation: Large rear, urban garden. Area: approximately 70m2 Aspect: South facing. Environmental conditions: Fully enclosed rear garden with timber fences exposed…
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Refresh to an existing Plantswoman’s Garden
This exciting commission was to refresh the planting scheme in an established garden in Monmouthshire that had been designed by a plantswoman, but had declined over the years with changes in ownership. We documented the existing plants and their condition and then produced a sympathetic planting design, in order to refresh this once award-winning garden.…
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Contemporary Cottage Garden
Contemporary Cottage Garden Design; Our brief involved designing cottage garden theme with a contemporary twist for this urban garden in the Lisvane area of Cardiff. The Brief This design was for another of our Cardiff based clients. She asked us for a modern twist on the cottage garden – a ‘Contemporary Cottage Garden’. So after…
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Sanctuary Woodland Edge Garden
Sanctuary Woodland Edge Garden; Our brief involved designing an easily manageable, and low maintenance garden, ensuring that it could be enjoyed and maintained with minimal assistance from a gardener. The Brief – Sanctuary Woodland Edge Garden Requirements: Easily manageable, and low maintenance garden. Which should have Year round colour and interest with evergreens, perennials, textures…
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Cottage Garden Style Bed
Sometimes our clients just need us to design a planting scheme for them. On this occasion it was a cottage garden style design bed. Which we were happy to do. Emphasis Our planting schemes generally put an emphasis on shapes, colours, texture and movement. And this cottage garden style bed scheme was no different. Along…