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elcome to Pro Landscaper’s 2017 Portfolio. This magazine has become a valuable resource for all people connected with the landscape industry, as a way of finding possible working collaborations, new suppliers, and design ideas and inspiration.

The Pro Landscaper Portfolio has become a coffee table publication. Our portfolios are expertly designed on the page to give the reader a clear idea of transformation, budget, timescale and size, and this collection is also something that you can share with potential clients to focus the design brief (giving them ideas of budget and style), or use as a valuable product resource for landscapers and garden designers.

We are always interested in receiving exciting, innovating and inspiring projects on every scale imaginable within the realms of landscape design, so this year we have included simple guidelines for application into this most popular monthly feature in Pro Landscaper (see pages 6-8). If you’ve always thought about it but have never got around to submitting one of your projects, make sure 2018 is the year you do it – you could see your company in next year’s Portfolio supplement!

Enjoy the issue, and our thanks to everyone who was featured in 2017.

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PORTFOLIO 2017 JANUARY 2017

FEBRUARY 2017

MARCH 2017

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Ahead of the Curve Blue Tulip Garden Design

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Golden Green Alladio Sims Garden Landscape Design

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Dark Materials AHR

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Old Meets New Gustafson Porter + Bowman

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Super Natural Anthea Harrison

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New Wave Acre Landscapes Ltd

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Sitting Pretty Artscape Design & Build

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Plastic Fantastic Hultons Landscapes

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In the Light of Day Ruth Willmott Associates

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Block Party CLS Landscape & Earthworks

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Out of Africa Rowan Landscapes

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Surf’s Up Northumbrian Landscaping Ltd

JULY 2017

AUGUST 2017

SEPTEMBER 2017

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Small Wonder Aralia

107 Pastures New The Cotswold Garden Company

121 Born Again CGD Landscape Design

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Circle Time Water Gems

110 Pocket Rocket Garden Club London

124 Raising Hope Hultons Landscapes

114 Go With the Flow Artscape Design & Build Ltd

128 Divide and Conquer VaRa Garden Design

117 A Homecoming Prayer Northumbrian Landscaping

131 Violet’s Garden Warwick Taylor Landscapes

102 Private Screening Viridian Landscape Studio

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MAY 2017

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Reclaim the Past Daniel Shea Garden Design

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Sharp Focus Peter Reader Landscapes

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Sea Change i dverde

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London Luxury Elite Landscapes Ltd

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Rural Rapture Creative Landscape Co.

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Wild at Heart David Keegan Garden Design

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First Class Living Landscapes

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Doing The Rounds The Outdoor Room

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Ahead of the Curve Joanne Willcocks

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In Step Katherine Roper Landscape & Garden Design

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Creature Comforts Camilla Hiley Gardens

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Paradise Found Grant Associates

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137 The Leisure Principle Strata Design Associates

151 Stepping Up Karena Batstone Design

161 Breathing Space Alexandra Froggatt Design

140 Phoenix Rising The National Trust

154 Make a Splash Esse Landscapes & The Lovely Garden

164 Urban Paradise In-Ex Landscapes

144 Take it Outside Living Landscapes 147 Bright Future Warnes McGarr & Co

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158 Back in Business Wilson McWilliam Studio

168 Not Just For Show Paul Hervey-Brookes

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We’re always looking to showcase the best of the best in landscaping. We want to see your domestic, commercial, show garden and maintenance triumphs.

Pro Landscaper’s portfolio section celebrates the work being done in our industry and, as the years go on, those highlighted come to form a record of the trends and figures that shape the sector.

Entering a project for the portfolio section in Pro Landscaper allows you to showcase your work to your peers and see your company in the industry’s leading publication – and as part of our commitment to the highest editorial standards, all of our portfolios are featured free of charge.

If you would like to see your work featured in Pro Landscaper in 2018, find our portfolio requirements overleaf.

Contact Claire Maher to enquire into availability and to send in your details: Claire Maher claire.maher@eljays44.com 01903 777 570

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Portfolio requirements PRO LANDSCAPER PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS 2018 Pro Landscaper’s portfolios are renowned, expertly designed, and each one chosen becomes a part of this fantastic legacy of landscaping excellence. For these reasons, there are a few things to adhere to when sending in your project

Portfolio requirements (domestic, commercial, show garden, other) Project overview • Full project name • Project value (inc. VAT) • Build time • Size of project • Awards (nominations, shortlists and wins) • Words detailing the client’s brief, the project’s background, information on the design/build, how materials were sourced and any challenges that you had to overcome to make your vision a reality.

Please aim for a minimum of 600 words.

• A list of suppliers for key materials mentioned or photographed, with their website.

• Before, during and after photos (we’re happy to credit photographers if necessary). Please note: in order to be used in print, images must be high resolution. As a general rule of thumb, please make sure your images are a minimum of 1MB. • Your company logo and a 50 word company bio.

Portfolio requirements (maintenance) • Project overview • Full project name • Contract value (inc. VAT) • Length of contract • Size of project • Awards (nominations, shortlists and wins) • Words detailing the client’s brief, a little background information, the terms of the contract and the types of jobs covered, the objectives of staff and frequency of visits, machinery and other supplies, and any particular challenges you face.

Please aim for a minimum of 600 words.

• A list of suppliers for key materials mentioned or photographed, with their website.

• Photos of the project/location, and the team working on site if possible (we’re happy to credit photographers if necessary). Please note: in order to be used in print, images must be high resolution.

As a general rule of thumb, please make sure your images are a minimum of 1MB. • Your company logo and a 50 word company bio.

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AHEAD OF THE CURVE BLUE TULIP GARDEN DESIGN A strong geometric design gives this large front garden a bold update

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he client was keen to give her rather large but uninspiring front garden a bit of ‘wow’ factor. From her point of view, this was the outdoor area that she saw every day as she came to and from work, and she was willing to spend a decent sum of money on creating a space to be proud of and which made the most of its ample size.

The original garden was mainly laid to lawn, planted around the edges with a few woody shrubs and dominated by a large evergreen tree which, although giving structure to the garden, blocked the views around the space.

The brief The design brief was quite simple: to create an attractive space that enhanced the contemporary style of the 1950s house. Fortunately there was sufficient hard landscaping to accommodate two or three vehicles, so the soft landscaping didn’t need to be reduced in size, which is so often the case with front gardens.

Blue Tulip Design was given free reign to decide whether the lawn was reduced or removed entirely and as it wasn’t required it was the first thing to go,

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value Build cost £10,500 Plants £2,000 Build time Design process: June 2013 to August 2013 Construction/planting: October 2013 Size of project 95m2 (+ 89m2 driveway)

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allowing for swathes of planting that would become the main component of the garden.As the actual driveway surface wasn’t going to be touched, the area to work within could not be changed, so the major challenge was to create a design that worked in such an awkward space.

The design Taking a bold approach, a strong geometrical design was imposed that linked the main body of planting with the narrow bed of planting at the opposite side of the drive. A ‘sun’ like structure was settled upon with curved lines of planting, gravel and granite stone setts sweeping out from a central stone circle. A large granite stone ball was sat in the central point, which gives a pleasing focal point amongst the soft grasses and perennials.

The granite setts and gravel give structure to the space and allow access amongst the plants for maintenance. The plant palette included the grasses Anemanthele lessioniana, Molinia ‘Transparent, Carex comans ‘Frosted Curls’ interspersed with perennials Heuchera 1 The original concept illustrates the bold new layout 2 The view that greets the client as she approaches the house 3 A magnificent granite sphere provides the main focus 4 Existing planting did nothing to enhance the house 5 The landscape team ensured the build went to plan 6 The client was happy to lose the lawn 7 Granite setts and gravel are laid in bold swathes amongst the planting

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‘Obsidian’, Geum ‘Mrs J Bradshaw’, Salvia nemerosa ‘Caradonna’ and Echinacea ‘White Swan’.

Construction and planting went smoothly, helped by the expert and considerate approach taken by the landscape team. The client was thrilled with her new garden and said that it was the envy of her street.

ABOUT BLUE TULIP GARDEN DESIGN Blue Tulip Garden Design in Wilmslow works across Cheshire and the North West, with a varied portfolio of completed projects of all sizes and styles. Louise HarrisonHolland, an experienced and professional designer, creates beautiful gardens perfectly integrated with your home. Our total design and in tallation ervice ean you can find everyt in in one place; all tailored to your own requirements. www.bluetulipgardendesign.co.uk

REFERENCES Garden design Blue Tulip Garden Design

7 Holly Road North, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 1LX 01625 524877 www.bluetulipgardendesign.co.uk Silver granite setts Natural Paving

0330 333 8030 www.naturalpaving.co.uk Flint gravel CED Ltd

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Stone Ball (90cm bush-hammered natural granite sphere) Stone World

01844 279274 www.stoneworld.co.uk Plants Ladybrook Nursery

0161 4408060 www.ladybrooknursery.com Lighting (Domo spreadlights) Lighting for Gardens

01462 486777 www.lightingforgardens.co.uk Construction Greenbelt Landscapes

www.greenbeltlandscapes.co.uk

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OLD MEETS NEW GUSTAFSON PORTER + BOWMAN London’s New Ludgate development successfully softens the edge between public realm and private project

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £2m Build time March 15 to June 16 Size of project 7,000m2

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he City of London is dominated by tight urban areas with a poor interface between the streetscape and commercial sites. This is particularly visible in terms of paving, where York stone often ends abruptly when meeting more contemporary paving used on commercial schemes.

New Ludgate sits in the heart of this urban fabric, surrounded by three main roads and pedestrian traffic from nearby transport links at City Thameslink and London Blackfriars. An opportunity to redevelop the site allowed Gustafson Porter + Bowman to create a space for the public to enjoy. Recognising the context rather than ignoring it enhances the project’s sense of scale and softens the edge between public realm and private development.

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tie the new development seamlessly into the surrounding urban fabric and character.

The design The design draws on the history and context of the site, recalling similar hidden passageways in London, and opens a new additional west-east pedestrian route through the urban block. On the development’s fifth floor, Gustafson Porter + Bowman developed a large south-facing roof terrace for office workers, which benefits from day-long sunlight. The aim was to create a boundary between the natural oasis of the roof terrace and its urban context without creating the feeling of being ‘in a fishbowl’ and overlooked by adjacent buildings. Comprised of dense planting arranged in colourful bands of perennial plants, ornamental grasses and evergreen structural planting, this screen grounds the user to their own context rather than being exposed by ‘the big view’.

large ‘super-block’ developments cut across ancient thoroughfares and reduced the number of alleyways.

The New Ludgate development responds to the City Corporation’s ambitions to reintroduce these lost routes which are now of great value to the working population, allowing for breakout spaces from offices amongst cafes and shops. Today, this is once again a place to pause within a frenetic environment.

Site history The site was once occupied by the Bell Savage Inn, a public house and coaching inn, and ‘Lud Gate’, which provided access to a prison. Both were accessed by passageways.

In the second half of the 20th century the old medieval layout of the city was disintegrating as

Piazetta concept A small piazzetta on Old Bailey marks the entrance to a west-east passageway which links Old Bailey to Limeburner Lane and makes a transition from the traditional pavement of York stone to dark granite.

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geometric paving pattern which takes inspiration from fashion designer Alexander McQueen and the 20th century artist MC Escher.

Gustafson Porter + Bowman’s design team was certain from the outset that it did not want to use a standard piece of paving on the scheme, and through lengthy design iterations developed a set of nine mosaic pieces which give a crafted and unique quality to the space.

3D development allowed for accurate stone cutting, reducing wastage on site, and improving quality control of the installation.

Piazetta design The design began with Neil Porter’s handdrawn sketches and through subsequent modelling culminated in precision cutting of the stone, requiring close contact and 1 Photo of fifth-floor roof terrace looking west 2 Complete aerial plan of New Ludgate showing fifth-floor roof terrace and piazetta 3 A set of nine mosaic pieces give a crafted quality 4 Planting with St Paul’s Cathedral in background 5 A small piazzetta on Old Bailey marks the west-east passageway entrance 6 The considered positioning of street furniture and trees increases the sense of space

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collaboration with the wider construction team.

The seemingly random geometric paving leads pedestrians to a focal point at the centre of the piazza, marked by a mature Liriodendron tulipifera and surrounded by integrated solid granite seating, itself a subtle extension of the paving pattern.

The complex existing street levels required Gustafson Porter + Bowman to undertake complex 3D reviews to tie the new development into the surrounding streetscapes and road levels.

The considered positioning of street furniture and trees in the piazza increases the sense of space and creates a vibrant new meeting and gathering place in the city.

Roof terrace concept New Ludgate sets a standard for terrace gardens throughout London, dominating the view from the upper floors and creating a rich and vibrant place to sit or entertain.

The terrace includes a dense planting scheme which varies in height and corresponds to an understated colour scheme for pockets of the raised flower bed, which is wrapped in a sinuous white Corian bench. Both subtle and sculptural, its form continues to wrap around the very edges of the terrace while its varied height creates ample soil depth. The design of the planting bed allows for two channels which give spectacular views for the building’s users to St Paul’s and the City of London beyond.

Additional green roofs were designed and installed on the top floors of each building, integrated with the photovoltaic strategy on these levels. Gustafson Porter + Bowman’s 3D design files were used by the manufacturer at construction stage which ensured a consistency in the realisation of the design from concept through to installation.

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Roof terrace planting Plants are grouped together according to colour and form. Bands of yellow flowering evergreen Euphorbias contrast with the tall blue flowering spikes of Erynginum, Echinopsis and Aster, while low hummocks of flowering thyme are seen against the towering purple balls of Alliums. All are framed by the plumes of tall grasses.

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1 Ornamental grasses in addition to plants 2 3D modelling showing massing of flower bed and wrapping form 3 Section of fifth-floor roof terrace in relation to building 4 Planting alongside entrance to terrace from the fifth-floor 5 Fifth-floor roof terrace, as viewed from St Paul’s Cathedral 6 Concept rendering for final design 7 Planting detail and distance from building 8 Bold geometric paving takes inspiration from Alexander McQueen and artist MC Escher

REFERENCES Landscape design Gustafson Porter + Bowman

Tel 020 7284 8950 Email enquiries@gp-b.com Web wwww.gp-b.com Plants Coblands

www.coblands.co.uk Deepdale

www.deepdale-trees.co.uk

ABOUT GUSTAFSON PORTER + BOWMAN Gustafson Porter + Bowman is an award-winning landscape architecture practice which has received public acclaim for creating authentically engaging spaces within a global portfolio. The development of our design work has continuously pushed the boundarie o at con titute t e ďŹ eld o landscape design and our work is known for its sensual and sculptural features. www.gp-b.com

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Lindum

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www.gormley.co.uk Marshalls

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ARTSCAPE DESIGN & BUILD This traditional garden makes clever use of planting and seating to show off its best features and views

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he client lives in a ground floor apartment in an executive gated development which has its own gardens and also looks onto communal gardens. The gardens had been laid mainly to paving, lawns, a Photinia hedge, some scruffy plants and a large unsuitable sycamore.

A more interesting garden was requested that was in keeping with the property and could be used for entertaining, relaxing and ensuring that the views of the communal gardens to the east were not obscured.

We started by transplanting the Photinia hedge to the back garden and opening up the views to the communal gardens. The existing terrace outside the kitchen was extended to provide more space and to catch the afternoon sun.

Lawns were removed and cut-outs were created for herbs and informal plants to soften the apartment and provide colour and interest. The existing manholes were either recessed or located within the planting to conceal them.

A small gravel path with stepping stones gave access to a bench. The dining table was offset to the French doors so as not to obstruct the views from the kitchen. In the back garden some of the paving was removed and then planted to soften the house. A bird bath was included opposite the doors with a bench placed against the wall and Box hedging surrounding the paving for structure and height.

Permission was given to remove the sycamore which then provided more light to the rear border.

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value ÂŁ19k Build time Two months Size of project 200sq m

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ABOUT ARTSCAPE DESIGN & BUILD Artscape Design & Build Ltd founded in 1979 is a multi-award winning company. Our knowledgeable, experienced and creative tea o er a ro e ional ervice to all our clients, project managing your scheme ensuring it is completed to the highest standard. We are passionate about designing, creating landscapes and maintaining gardens. We are based in Berkshire and undertake projects in the Home Counties.

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JANUARY PORTFOLIO 2017 A stone seat was located to catch the sun and decorative planting to add colour, interest and to soften the fences.

There was a dead space between the two gardens which was redesigned, keeping the existing block paving but removing the remaining slabs and replacing them with planting.

A beautiful brick wall was softened with low planting and a timber structure linked the house to the boundaries and allowed the Wisteria and other climbers to grow over.

Modern sofas provided a pleasant area to relax. Simple lighting allowed the garden to be used in the evenings and enjoyed from the house.

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www.bouchierfencing.com Gravel Stoneworld Stone & Slate Supplies

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www.fcn.co.uk Turf London Lawn Turf Company

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CLS LANDSCAPE & EARTHWORKS Granite paving blocks transform Teesside University’s campus

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his public realm project joins a long list of schemes undertaken for Teesside University by CLS Landscape & Earthworks on Southfield Road, Middlesbrough. The £1.5m project was part of a wider project to regenerate the university campus and link its north and south sides, including alterations to the existing Southfield Road ‘streetscene’ to create a more welcoming and pedestrian friendly campus heart within the existing university campus.

Design & build This section of Southfield Road has now been completely pedestrianised. The majority of the works were directed by the specification from landscape architect Austin Smith Lord. Works included the installation of new drainage, granite sett and flag paving, new street furniture, street

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £1.9m Build time Sept 14 to Nov 15 Size of project 5,500sq m

ABOUT CLS LANDSCAPE & EARTHWORKS Building a reputation of excellence since 1968, CLS Landscape & Earthworks is a division of Cleveland Land Services specialising in hard and soft landscaping.

We are proud to have an excellent reputation for providing high quality, professional projects to a wide range of private and public sector clients. www.cleveland-land-services.co.uk

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lighting and ‘gateway’ features at east and west approaches. A new raised lawn was formed along with small areas of soft landscaping and a new tree avenue planted.

Paving & furniture Granite paving blocks were laid in a Bogen design (similar to Florentine). This European style has been used by the landscape architect in several other schemes across the county. The blocks were laid using an ultrascape Pro-Bed which was able to be mixed on-site. Ultrascape Pro-Prime was used to provide the bond

between the paving and the fine bedding mortar and Ultrascape Flowpoint as a rapid setting grout.

Street furniture was fabricated in Corten steel and designed especially for the project. A variety of bench sizes were installed – three, four and six metres. A granite pier which the university logo was engraved into was installed to the entrances at both ends of the pedestrian area.

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1 The new ‘curve’ building 2 Aerial of the campus heart at night 3 Granite pier entrance engraved with logo 4 The site under construction 5 Main thoroughfare joining north and south sides 6 Transition between the central heart and thoroughfare 7 The newly pedestrianised Southfield Road 8 Granite cobbles in band formation around raised lawn

REFERENCES Landscape construction CLS Landscape & Earthworks

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strapped and ratcheted into the Strata sphere.

The system incorporated breathing pipes and caps at the surface to allow air to ventilate to the root system, while still allowing vehicles to be driven over the strata cells under the paving. The scheme involved several areas of small shrub beds and one large shrub bed beside the student’s union. Roll-on Medallion turf was chosen for the grassed area below the living wall.

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Pedestrian access needed to be maintained throughout the site at all times, which was particularly high during term time. A phased approach was essential, as was site and public safety. CLS also had to accommodate the movement of delivery vehicles to adjacent pubs, restaurants and the student’s union.

The cold weather conditions and bad winter in 2014/15 posed a significant problem that had to be overcome as the Instamac mortar bed could not be used in temperatures below 20°C.

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GOLDEN GREEN ALLADIO SIMS GARDEN LANDSCAPE DESIGN Raj sandstone, cedar cladding and pleached hornbeam revitalise a Victorian townhouse garden in Fulham

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £25k Build time August to April Size of project 52m²

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his project involved the garden of a classic Victorian townhouse in Fulham, West London. The client had purchased it as two flats and was in the process of turning it into one house with a separate lower ground floor flat.

The brief The project brief came in two forms. An interior designer had produced some sketches showing a couple of planted areas and a terrace in the middle. The client also provided a verbal brief on how he envisaged the garden and its use. The client’s brief was a garden serving the upper house, where he lives, and the basement flat that was linked but separate. The flat was to be used as a guest apartment and therefore occupied only occasionally, so the courtyard was to be considered part of the main garden area. The kitchen of the upper house is on the first floor, so

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the main view of the garden was from the balcony at first floor level. The garden was very overlooked, as most townhouse gardens in London are, and there was a need to introduce some privacy.

Another key factor was that the house refit was of a very high standard, so the garden needed to link into that.

Design The design solution was the creation of two distinct terraces with different paving surfaces but linked by the use of cedar wall cladding. The careful use of pleached hornbeam of different clear stem height created a high level of privacy in the upper terrace and at the same time a real feel of intimacy. The main planted area was located so as to be visible from the balcony above and out from under the pleached trees planted within it.

The lower courtyard was fully paved in crisp sawn and sandblasted Raj sandstone and populated

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with a selection of pots and plants. The main contractor for the house was chosen to carry out the hard landscaping for the garden and the soft landscaping was done by Landform Consultants.

Challenges The most challenging part of the process was the pointing on the stone. Having decided upon the use of the ‘BMW’ of brush-in-grout solutions that could be laid even in the rain, what was not apparent was the effect it would have on the stone, which unfortunately was dramatic and shiny.

1 Night view from the balcony 2 Concept sketch presentation 3 The lower terrace viewed from the stair landing 4 Soft and hard textures meet 5 View to the garden from the ground floor

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6 The intimate upper terrace 7 Illuminated hornbeam

REFERENCES Garden design Alladio Sims Garden Landscape Design

020 7732 3996 hello@alladiosims.co.uk www.alladiosims.co.uk Raj sandstone Rock Unique

www.rock-unique.com Clay pavers Chelmer Valley Brick Co

www.chelmervalley.co.uk Hard landscaping

Phillip Banks Development Limited

www.phillipbanks.co.uk

ABOUT ALLADIO SIMS GARDEN LANDSCAPE DESIGN LTD

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Soft landscaping Landform Consultants

Alladio Sims Garden Landscape Design Ltd was established in 2015 after Jon Sims and Emanuela Alladio Sims Alladio collaborated on a Silver Gilt winning show garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. The two directors continue their collaborative approach throughout their practice with Jon’s background in interior architecture giving distinctive spaces and Emanuela’s passions for plants and photographic eye adding great texture and contrast.

Garden Landscape Design

www.landformconsultants.co.uk Cedar cladding Silva Timber

www.silvatimber.co.uk Painted trellis The Garden Trellis Co.

www.gardentrellis.co.uk Garden furniture Barbed Ltd

www.barbed.co.uk

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £800k Build time Initial contact with clients April 2012. Final planting November 2015 Size of project Approx 14,000sq m

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SUPER NATURAL ANTHEA HARRISON Anthea Harrison put her stamp on this grand four-year project with a natural swimming pool and swathes of beautiful planting

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hen garden designer Anthea Harrison first met the clients back in April 2012 they were living in an unattractive house on the site they were looking to develop. The existing house was due to be knocked down and a significantly larger and more traditional looking property built in its place. They were passionate about their garden, regular Chelsea goers and wanted lots of planting. Other features to be included were a new driveway and main entrance, a walled kitchen garden with greenhouse, a main seating area plus several smaller ones, a swimming pool, hot tub and changing rooms and an open pavilion. An old

tennis court was to be replaced with a new one in a similar position, and the house benefited from some fabulous mature trees.

Design and build At the initial consultation Anthea persuaded the clients to look again at their requirement for a swimming pool. They had requested a traditional pool at the side of the house. Instead Anthea suggested a natural swimming pool as the main feature to the rear of the property, with everything else arranged around it. The initial concept was to divide the filtration bed and the main body of water connecting the two with a rill leading from one part of the garden to another.

1 Main view from house 2 View up rill looking back from filtration bed towards the pool 3 Outdoor kitchen and adjacent walled garden 4 View across pool towards back of house

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After approval for the concept and sizes of these water bodies from natural pool company Gartenart, the idea was fine-tuned to incorporate a water feature starting at the main dining patio which would use the filtration bed to keep the water clean.

A ‘hot’ garden, including the sunken hot tub and most of the Corten steel panels, separates the pool from the ‘strolling’ garden, a large area of planting with intertwining paths leading to a wrought iron gazebo. This area helps the garden blend in with the countryside as it is more informal and features a number of the new trees that were planted on site.

Water flows from the swimming pool via a rill which steps down through a series of waterfalls to a large circular seating area at the side of the house which is partially surrounded by the filtration bed. Stepping stones through the filtration bed maintain access and views to the strolling garden. The kitchen garden features a built in BBQ, pizza oven, sink and cupboards and is between the house and main dining patio. There was only one location really suitable for the walled garden, although its proximity to a large tree and its roots caused some issues.

The whole garden is blended into the countryside setting through trees and planting,

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the aim in the long term is for the yew hedging to make the pool more private and to help divide the garden.

The result is a stunning space that has really excelled in giving the clients multiple areas to entertain and plenty of space for their teenage children to enjoy with friends. They had a garden opening party and said they used every area including retiring at the end of the day to the open pavilion for cheese and coffee.

Problems, issues and their solutions There were several large trees on site which had to be given special consideration and all the landscaping plans had to be approved by the local planning authority. In particular the root protection zone of the Blue Atlas Cedar near to the house was enormous.

The whole site is in a conservation area and one tree in particular caused a headache with the garden walls. The tree was misshapen and close to the end of its life so an application was made to remove it. The structural engineer also worked to find some solutions, but by the time it came to building the walls permission had been granted to fell the tree.

The soil became an issue after the phenomenal excavation works for the pool and basement of the house. Everything within about 20m of these turned to 1m-deep slushy clay. In the end there was no choice but to wholesale remove the affected areas and import top soil, continually checking drainage.

It took some time to agree with the client the exact nature of the Corten steel panels in the walled garden so this batted to and fro for a while, but otherwise the client was enthused and stuck to the original concept of the design which was very rewarding,

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especially given the number of plants put in – over 5,000 perennials, grasses and shrubs and about 20 trees.

The project in all from concept to completion took nearly four years and through this time numbers of drawings were issued and revised once the builders were on site.

ABOUT ANTHEA HARRISON We are a boutique consultancy who provide a high level of personal service to our clients over a range of projects. Gardens vary from several acres to small urban town spaces but our attention to detail and creativity deďŹ ne us as a design company. We are registered designers with both BALI and the SGD and work mainly in Hertfordshire and Essex. www.antheaharrison.co.uk

REFERENCES Design Anthea Harrison

01279 647305 anthea@antheaharrison.co.uk www.antheaharrison.co.uk

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6 Water feature in dining area before tiling 7 Gravel filtration bed before planting and filling with water

www.gartenart.co.uk Metalwork Anwick Forge

www.anwickforge.co.uk Paving St Albans Stone

www.stalbansstone.co.uk Porcelain for rill, steps and pool facing Alfresco Floors

alfrescofloors.com Slate water feature Dan Rodgers

www.sculpturalgardens.co.uk

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Furniture Indian Ocean

www.indian-ocean.co.uk Landscaping and brickwork NGC Construction

www.nextgenerationconstruction.co.uk Plants Provender Nurseries

www.provendernurseries.co.uk Trees Barcham Trees

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PLASTIC FANTASTIC HULTONS LANDSCAPES

Adding wow-factor to a science and innovation campus in Cheshire

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ci-Tech Daresbury is a national science and innovation campus established in 2006. In December 2010 a new joint-venture company was created to spearhead the longer term development of the site. Partners in the company are developer Langtree, the Science and Technology Facilities Council and Halton Borough Council.

footpaths and public open spaces around the existing woodland. This consisted of tree management to the existing woodland, creation of formal footpaths, extensive ground remodelling using topsoil won from the site, with integrated hard landscaping to encourage use of the new seating and outdoor facilities which were surrounded by extensive soft landscaping works. This incorporated 75

The brief Hultons Landscapes was employed to undertake the construction of a new linear park within the existing infrastructure of the campus.

The contract was to build a park, formal

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value ÂŁ150k Build time Four months Size of project 23,000m2

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semi-mature trees (for which Hultons offered value engineering solutions to upscale the size of the trees to maximise the instant impact of the park), 14,000 containerised plants, 6,000m2 of turf and 700m of wildflower turf. A natural Capinus hedge and fencing works were also installed.

Design and build The project was constructed while the science park was fully operational and, with over 2,000 people coming and going each day, logistics and programming were key to construction.

Issues like single file traffic during roadside construction and car park closures were put in place along with diverting pedestrians away from the project due to footpath closures.

With the park being linear and paths not being very wide, the construction team persevered with the logistics of transporting over 90 trees into position, some of which were large 25-30cm trees. Most of the items had to be wheelbarrowed in as the gradient of the park did not allow for a pallet-type truck to attend.

During construction of the plaza area, the road remained live and the teams had to set up traffic management systems to keep themselves safe. Soils were imported by hand due to turning areas for cars and vans being confined to the minimum.

Any plant used if possible was with 1tn or 3tn sized machines. Other contractors working in the area completing works such as the concrete path, decking construction and lighting schemes were also a challenge.

ABOUT HULTONS LANDSCAPES Established in 1968 Hultons is a leading provider of fully integrated landscaping solutions from design concepts to landscape construction and grounds maintenance projects. Our purpose built premises in Lymm, Cheshire co bined it o ce in ale and the Midlands allow us to serve a large area of the UK. www.hultonslandscapes.com

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Landscaper Hultons Landscapes

0161 928 1274 www.hultonslandscapes.com Lawn Professional Lawns

www.professional-lawns.co.uk Trees Specimen Trees

www.specimentrees.net Fence Hales Sawmill

www.halessawmills.co.uk Plants Dingle Nurseries

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OUT OF AFRICA ROWAN LANDSCAPES Choosing the right plants and containers for an African-themed office based in London

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onangol Ltd is an oil company based in central London. In 2014/15, workplace consultants company Peldon Rose Group Ltd was chosen to redesign Sonangol’s Project value Knightsbridge office and create £10k a new corporate London HQ, which would reflect its heritage Build time and future as a leading oil Office refurbishment: producer in Africa.

26 weeks Peldon Rose integrated three New office plants: Four to six weeks existing buildings on the Brompton Road into one. They Size of project refurbished each of the buildings 2,800m² and created a reception area that previously didn’t exist. They briefed Rowan Landscapes as to the new plants and containers that would be needed once the refurbishment was complete.

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The brief for the new office planting was for it to be ‘big and bold’ and to use architectural pots and plants for effect. Wherever possible the plants selected should have an African connection.

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Large contemporary style planters were supplied by Livingreen Design Ltd. The Hex and Beehive vase ranges feature the handmade look, feel and texture of real ceramics and terracotta pots.

The plants included Zamioculcas zamifolia, Sansevieria and Dracaena deremensis ‘Lemon Lime’. All three choices have an African origin as was requested by the planting brief.

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REFERENCES Interior landscaper Rowan Landscapes

106B Ashmore Rd, London W9 3DQ 020 8962 1692 www.rowanlandscapes.co.uk Plant containers Livingreen Design Ltd

www.livingreendesign.com Plants Arnott and Mason Horticulture Ltd

www.arnottandmason.london Designer Peldon Rose Group Ltd

www.peldonrose.com

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1 The front reception at Sonangol Ltd, Knightsbridge 2 Large Sansevieria plant in tall beehive vase 3 Linik planters featuring low planting Zamioculcas zamifolia 4 Hex ceramic style planter with large Zamioculcas zamifolia 5 African artwork with tall beehive planter 6 Zamioculcas zamifolia dressed with black polished stones

Rowan Landscapes is a small family run business that specialises in providing high quality horticultural services to schools, businesses and private clients throughout London. We provide our clients with a i level o er onal ervice and o er a coordinated programme of interior and exterior landscaping.

www.rowanlandscapes.co.uk

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Landscape architects AHR delivered the only successful UK entry in France’s International Garden Festival

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he prestigious International Garden Xxxxx xxxx xxx inxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxx Festival Chaumont-sur-Loire, France has been for 25 xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxx running xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxx years. It provides a new generation of landscape architects, designers, architects and horticulturists the opportunity to demonstrate diversity and creativity through new plants, new materials, original approaches and innovative concepts.

The 2016 theme was ‘Gardens for the Coming Century’ deriving from today’s gardens being places of deliberation, innovation and experimentation. With stiff competition from over 300 applicants, the garden of AHR Landscape Architects, Anca Panait and Greg Meikle was the only successful UK entry, joining others from France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Russia, Canada, Korea and China.

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left untreated and exposed to the Scottish elements for as long as possible to ensure a cohesive aesthetic for the finished garden in France.

Design and brief AHR’s winning entry, ‘Frankenstein’s Nature’, invites visitors on a journey dominated by science, in which experiments can and do go wrong. By making the analogy with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the design concentrates on contrasting processes and highlights the unpredictability and temporality of scientific actions, and their potential results. Elements that are not normally associated are paired together to demonstrate their intrinsic features and heighten the visitor’s senses – touch, smell and sound are all present through different material associations.

Material sourcing and construction Anca and Greg chose to self-build the garden over a two-week period in April, enlisting family and friends to ensure the tight programme did not slip. Following initial site visits to France earlier in the year, it became apparent that sourcing materials whilst constructing was not an option. Therefore, most materials, excluding planting, were

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1 Entrance approach 2 Laboratory shelving planting details 3 Concept plan 4 Concept section 5 Hard paving installation

ABOUT AHR

sourced in the UK prior to departure.

The desired dilapidated aesthetic favoured the selection of recycled material from various sources including farm yards and prison demolitions. New materials were sourced well in advance of construction and

AHR is a multi-service architecture and building consultancy practice.

Our national landscape design team works within the UK and overseas in association with our colleagues and through independent commissions. The team creates spaces that not only enhance the landscape and cityscape, but also actively contribute to people’s enjoyment of a place for their recreation, education, transportation and work. www.ahr-global.com

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6 During construction 7 Symbolic operation table comparing the Frankenstein story with contemporary science

REFERENCES Landscape design AHR

www.ahr-global.com Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival

www.domaine-chaumont.fr Paving Tobermore Paving

www.tobermore.co.uk Specimen grasses / feature plants Pepinieres Chombart

www.vivaces-en-conteneurs.com Perennials Jan Spruyt-Van der Jeugd

www.vasteplant.be Sedum matting Le Prieure

www.vegetalid.fr Quantity surveyor Neilson Partnership

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NEW WAVE ACRE LANDSCAPES LTD Acre Landscapes took on the soft landscaping for the gardens surrounding the Serpentine Sackler Gallery at Hyde Park

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cre Landscapes was asked to be part of the team responsible for the delivery of the soft landscaping to this new gallery. The gardens, designed by Arabella Lennox-Boyd, surround the Zaha Hadid extension to the gallery, with naturalistic planting complementing and enhancing the building and merging the garden with the surrounding environment of Hyde Park and Kensington Palace Gardens. The scheme had to be delivered on time, to budget and with safety considered at all times as a priority. All works were to be carried out to the highest of horticultural standards. The team’s experience and skill sets were drawn on to plan and procure, to ensure the project was executed precisely.

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value ÂŁ112k Build time February 2013 to March 2016 Size of project Two acres

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The site The Serpentine Sackler Gallery was previously known as The Magazine and was built in the early 1800s to store explosives in the event of Napoleon invading England. In 2010 the Serpentine Gallery won the tender from the Royal Parks to bring the Grade II listed Magazine building into public use for the first time in its 208-year history.

Scope of works The list of works in this project included: subsoil cut and fill, installation of drainage layer, design and installation of a fully automatic irrigation

system, topsoil blending and preparation, topsoil delivery and installation, contract growing of all tree, shrub and herbaceous stock, reinforced turf supply and lay, tree, shrub and bulb planting, bark mulching and weekly maintenance.

Methodology The gallery opened in late 2013, with the contract and design for the soft landscape works agreed and awarded just months prior to opening.

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The installation was to be executed during the gallery’s opening hours due to access restrictions – the gates shut at night. We had to navigate delivery of some 77 lorry loads of materials around visitors, so all deliveries were made between the park gates opening and the gallery gates opening – a two-hour window at best.

A maximum of two lorry loads were tipped every morning, loaded and moved into position using micro-plant equipment and levelled by hand. All working zones were marshalled and cordoned at all times. All temporary protection and barriers were removed each evening so that the gallery could host evening events. Not only was 345m3 of topsoil delivered in this way, over 100 different species of plants and 30 semimature trees were also delivered.

Such a diverse planting schedule did not permit an ‘off the shelf’ approach to procurement, and stock had to be contract grown for installation in the planting seasons of 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 to accommodate the gallery’s exhibition schedule. As a temporary aesthetic solution we decided to import and prepare all topsoils to the required depth for planting, install irrigation primaries and lay turf to all areas during the period of stock selection and growth. To meet with the Royal Parks’ biosecurity regulations, all stock had to be quarantined and closely monitored in an approved nursery prior to delivery.

The gardens were formally launched on Wednesday 18 May during a special evening to celebrate the successful collaboration of client vision, precise design and professional build.

ABOUT ACRE LANDSCAPES LTD Acre has worked on some of the most prestigious and challenging projects in Britain, including The Cutty Sark Gardens, Chelsea Creek, Terminals 2,3 & 5 at Heathrow Airport, Premier House, Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, and Greenwich Peninsula.

As a new generation of contractor, they pride themselves on their innovative approach, re ultin in a fir t cla ervice or all t eir client www.acrelandscapes.com

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1 Front Garden looking eastwards 2 Rear garden looking northwards 3 Plants laid out ready for planting in the rear garden 4 Side garden ready for planting 5 Acre planting team in progress 6 Rear gardens laid out

REFERENCES Garden design

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Acre Landscapes

www.acrelandscapes.com Trees, shrubs and bulbs Palmstead Nurseries

www.palmstead.co.uk Irrigation design and installation Green Blue

www.green-and-blue.co.uk Topsoil London Rock

www.londonrock.co.uk Compost and bark mulches Woodland Horticulture

www.woodlandhp.co.uk Turf George Davies

www.georgedaviesturf.co.uk Fertilisers and planting sundries Green Tech

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IN THE LIGHT OF DAY RUTH WILLMOTT ASSOCIATES Maximising space and light was key to transforming this small Chiswick garden

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he client for this property in Chiswick desired the rear garden to become an extended space of the contemporary kitchen. The small garden was dark and uninviting, and the clients said they didn’t enjoy looking at or spending time in it. They wanted to maximise the space and be able to sit outside comfortably without feeling claustrophobic.

Design The aim was to make the garden inviting, which was achieved through the choice of stone and the design itself; in order to give the client a full view of the space, thus opening it up, keeping the garden as open as possible was key.

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £50k

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Despite appearing dark and unwelcoming, it was only shady on one side of this east-facing garden, and this was the place for the Buxus cubes and Acers. The shadiest area was the corner nearest to the house, making it easier to deal with.

The garden needed to blend with the contemporary aesthetic of the kitchen, so we went for a ‘modernist block’ feel that echoed the kitchen and took it outside. We put in the evergreen structural components, such as the buxus cubes, to make it pictographic during the winter, and then in summer when there would be pockets of colour. Practical seating on stone cubes doubled as sculptural blocks within the planting scheme.

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Build Regular site visits were made during the project

DESIGN PLAN to support the build progress with the contractor, David Wallbridge Outdoor Living. Access was difficult as the garden could only be reached through the house; this was pre-empted in the CDM documents prepared for the contractor. This meant they could adjust the price accordingly, taking into account the protection of flooring and the labour implications of having to move more slowly and carefully through the house.

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and each weighing about 280kg, with matching steps through the house without putting anyone at risk or causing damage to the property. This took the best part of two days.

The raised beds and rear wall were covered in a white render by a subcontractor as the rear wall was not quite straight, making it difficult to get a straight finish without using a specialist contractor.

The external porcelain tiles were a textured version of those used inside the kitchen, albeit more weather resistant and non-slip. It took almost six weeks from ordering to delivery, and the tiles were so large they had to be cut freehand using a tile blade and mini grinder – a timeconsuming process which increased the possibility for human error. It was key to order extra from the same batch to avoid colour inconsistencies and to have spares. The tiles were installed by floating a solid concrete floor and using a rapid-setting external tile adhesive to set the tiles directly to it.

1 Space for planned new lounge furniture 2 Before view from kitchen – dark and overgrown 3 Before – space was small and dark

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ABOUT RUTH WILLMOTT ASSOCIATES Ruth Willmott followed her passion or arden de i n and ualified from the English Gardening School in 2009. In 2010 she set up her garden design practice, Ruth Willmott Associates, undertaking residential and commercial projects in the UK and abroad. At RHS Chelsea Ruth was awarded a Silver medal in 2012, Gold in 2013 and most recently a Silver-Gilt and Best Fresh Garden (voted People’s Choice) in 2015.

www.ruthwillmott.com

REFERENCES Design Ruth Willmott Associates

www.ruthwillmott.com Contractor David Wallbridge Outdoor Living

www.dwoutdoorliving.co.uk Porcelain tiles Domus Tiles

www.domustiles.co.uk Steps and seating cubes Schellevis

www.schellevis.nl Wood panelling The Garden Trellis Company

www.gardentrellis.co.uk Coloured render on walls and beds K-Rend

www.k-rend.co.uk Lighting Lightmaster

www.lightmaster-direct.co.uk

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NORTHUMBRIAN LANDSCAPING LTD

Project value £13k Build time Two weeks Size of project 140sq m

Evoking a summer beach feeling in this holiday cottage garden with reclaimed materials from the Northumberland coastline

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for anything sand blasted, white timbered, weathered and worn, although our best resource finally came from the Port of Tyne shipping company. Within this yard we found the building blocks that would shape the finish of the project; old pier legs and supports, driftwood logs and all manner of salt and sea battered artefacts.

The old Northumbrian fishing coble that was sourced for the seating arbour was found after a week of exploration. The right size, not too decayed, and within reach of a hardstanding area allowing us to crane lift the boat to dry land and start the renovation.

The design was to reflect the internal furnishing of the downstairs living space within the cottage and did so by continuing the heavily grained internal floorboards out into the garden, their frequency and size diminishing as they distanced from the building.

Lighting The lighting scheme was exciting, varied and included lights on different circuits to give flexibility and mood options, all operated via smartphone remote control. These included strip lights within the driftwood pergola uprights, uplights within the central planting to define the paths around the garden, directional lights fitted to each side of the boat at ground level – shinning up through the longer grasses and casting slowly drifting shadows about the gunnels – and lighting used to highlight the texture and grooving of the driftwood boardwalk.

Design The plan was to create a beach-like environment reminiscent of time spent surfing by the clients. Several design ideas were chosen to give the garden an intriguing and detailed finish, including beach fencing and self-binding gravel pathways. This was the solution to creating a beach-like effect without having to use sand, based on the probability that sand would be too unstable to provide a permanent surface. This also allowed free drainage throughout the design, eradicating the need for costly groundworks.

Planting The garden is west facing with direct sunlight in the afternoon and evening. The main obstacle to effective planting was the coastal environment and strong winds; the other major consideration was that the scheme demanded a low maintenance schedule.

Hayley wanted some swathes of bright and cheery colour; for this we decided to use blues, purples and pinks as the main colour backdrop. To ensure Andrew felt at home we included some planting reminiscent of his South African origins, including bright Osteospermum, Cape Daisies for colour, and Yucca gloriosa variegata for structure.

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Herbs were an important requirement for Hayley, so we dedicated a bed solely to edibles. Fennels give height and perfume whilst mixed thymes soften edges and create ground cover.

Taller planting was used to soften the perimeter wall and connect the house to the garden. Wisteria sinensis was used over the arches and will provide a curtain of colour once matured. This was underplanted with block planting of lavender ‘Hidcote’ to carry the colour scheme and add cohesion to the central beds. A wider variety of dwarf pines have been used throughout the scheme to create structure and evoke a Mediterranean feel around the fire pit area.

The resulting scheme was a delight to the clients. It was a pleasure for us as contractors to reuse beautiful materials in a design that will last for years to come. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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ABOUT NORTHUMBRIAN LANDSCAPING LTD Northumbrian Landscaping Ltd is an established award-winning landscape design and construction company ervin t e nort o n land erin t e highest standards from start to completion, it specialises in creative garden transformations, producing contemporary or classical designs or outdoor livin ace and o erin a ull consultancy service. www.northumbrianlandscaping.co.uk

REFERENCES Landscapers Northumbrian Landscaping Ltd

www.northumbrianlandscaping.co.uk Driftwood and timber artefacts Gateshead Council

www.gateshead.gov.uk Plans and drawings Designs Illustrated

www.designsillustrated.co.uk Plants Wilkinsons Landscapes

www.wilkinsonslandscapes.co.uk

1 A place to chill 2 A sea of recycled opportunities

Building materials

3 Into the night

www.jewson.co.uk

4 Lights: the devil is in the detail 5 Pier leg seats 6 Perspective drawing

Jewsons Ltd

Lighting Lumena Lights

www.lumenalights.com

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RECLAIM THE PAST DANIEL SHEA GARDEN DESIGN Marrying this Hertfordshire cottage’s history with contemporary design

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £70k Build time Three years Size of project 1,500m²

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Brief The brief was to create a contemporary garden design that had its roots in the past. Panoramic views from the house would be dynamic and ever changing.

With large bi-fold doors wrapping around the new extension, a seamless transition from the house to the garden was integral. The 15m long reflection pool, mild steel water tanks and long prairie style herbaceous borders provide drama and modernism but the use of reclaimed bricks, York stone and oak keep the garden’s provenance intact.

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Build and design The site was large and there were many areas of interest in the garden that needed to be designed, redesigned or renovated. A series of paths were installed connecting the house to each distinct zone, encouraging the client to explore the garden and the different areas which included: • A newly designed walled kitchen garden with a composting area, brick paths, and sun terrace laid in York stone.

• A wildflower meadow which was previously a neglected piece of lawn and was sown with an annual mix of meadow flowers. The wildlife that this area has encouraged has been a real benefit to the garden and injected a lot of activity into a once neglected area.

• A York stone sunken firepit with inbuilt stone benches for late night drinks.

• The existing greenhouse and ponds which were replanted.

• The newly designed herbaceous borders.

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www.danielshea.co.uk Landscaper Burnham Landscaping Ltd

www.burnhamlandscaping.co.uk Decking and wood

Champion timber

www.championtimber.com Bricks and reclaimed planters London Reclaimed Brick Merchants

www.lrbm.com

Mild steel water features Mill Green Forge

www.millgreenforge.co.uk Plants Howard Nurseries Ltd

www.howardnurseries.co.uk Joseph Rochford Gardens Ltd

01707 261370

dramatic ‘prairie style planting’. The most dramatic piece of landscaping was the 15m long reflection pool, edged in brick.

It spans the length of the kitchen and is the epicentre of the garden. The bi-fold doors open onto a decked area that leads to the pool, and the rest of the paths form around this main axis point. The pool reflects the planting year round and leads the eye out into the garden beyond.

Materials The majority of the materials were located on site. Fortunately, there were piles of old York stone and brick that had been discovered whilst building. We then supplemented these materials using local reclaim yards.

The long deck area runs parallel to the kitchen, with the reflection pool made from Iroko hardwood, and the pergola pots made from chunky oak beams.

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ABOUT DANIEL SHEA

1 Panoramic view onto the contemporary herbaceous border and water rill 2 Grasses, herbs and perennials soften the reclaimed brick path 3 Traditional herbaceous border with brick arched gate 4 Daniel Shea’s signature planting style

Daniel Shea is an award-winning garden de i ner ba ed in ert ord ire aniel o er a range of services including garden and planting de i n li tin and ater and fire eature From large country gardens to pocket-sized courtyards, His philosophy is to create harmonious and tranquil spaces inspired by nature, built on contemporary design and softened with lush and elegant planting. www.danielshea.co.uk

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £4.5m Build time Phase 1: April 2014 - June 2016 Size of project 8,230m²

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LONDON LUXURY ELITE LANDSCAPES LTD Bringing formal topiary and high end elegance to this London development set above a Sainsbury’s superstore

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he podium gardens are at the heart of Barratt London’s Fulham Riverside development. The tranquil landscape is set above a 120,000ft2 Sainsbury’s, providing an opportunity for an exciting space for residents.

Simon Garrett, operations director for Barratt London, says: “This scheme is a flagship development for Barratt London as it is a complex project combining high value residential housing with the commercial development of a Sainsbury’s superstore at ground level. The development is a joint venture partnership for Barratt London and the landscaping is a major part of the scheme. Elite has managed to deliver a quality product to exacting standards and to tight programme completion dates.”

The client Barratt London is the market-leading residential developer in the capital. Fulham Riverside, SW6 is an imaginative scheme which utilises land space and location to the maximum. The gardens are one of the biggest podium garden spaces in London overlooking the River Thames on the riverfront in Fulham. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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This 3.2 hectare site, once a coal-fired power plant and then a brewery, is located on the north bank of the River Thames in Fulham’s Sands End Riverside conservation area. Barratt London, in partnership with Sainsbury’s, is transforming derelict warehouses and a disused jetty into a thriving new community of 468 new homes, dynamic public spaces and river frontage.

Project scope of works Elite Landscapes Ltd was contracted to undertake the hard and soft landscaping The works were predominantly hard landscaping, and included design and development of the following items:

ABOUT ELITE LANDSCAPES LTD Established in November 1999, Elite Landscapes Ltd is a hard and soft landscape contractor with a current turnover of over £19m. The core business is commercial landscape construction and maintenance mainly in the south east of England, with project values between £100k and £5m. Elite Landscapes Ltd was co-founded by Dave Twist who is currently managing director. www.elitelandscapes.co.uk

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• Irrigation • Roof garden drainage, insulation and void former infill • Surface drainage • Groundworks/lighting coordination • Granite and York stone paving • Supply and installation of badminton court, play areas and outdoor fitness centre • Supply and installation of bespoke pergolas • Stone clad planter and seat formation • Step formation • Water wall and rill feature • Supply and installation of bespoke Cor-Ten planters • Installation of soft landscape maze in buxus hedging • Supply and installation of mature trees from Holland

• Ongoing aftercare maintenance.

Design inspiration and planting The design creates a series of ‘gardens within the garden’. A sequence of interlinked garden rooms frame the central lawn, creating individual spaces for residents to enjoy. The central water features exploit the changes in level, creating a dynamic wall of water cascading towards the River Thames.

The planting design takes inspiration from formal parterre gardens with a contemporary twist. Trees, hedges and topiary create the formal structure of the gardens. Ornamental shrubs and herbaceous perennials provide year round interest. Box headed, table top and topiary trees provide accents throughout the scheme.

Landscape construction and challenges Construction of the gardens at a raised height, surrounded by the newly constructed buildings, provided a logistical challenge. To complete the works for the podium gardens, all materials had to be craned up to the third floor in individual dumpy bags or pallets. Specialist details including lightweight materials, roof drainage systems and irrigation were installed to ensure establishment of the landscape.

The logistics for completing the scheme were challenging to plan and resource, and it is difficult to appreciate the work accomplished behind the scenes to deliver the garden work, particularly while working three floors up.

All works were completed to a fixed deadline and geared towards programmed completions for the housing handovers, with extreme pressure to deliver the externals for the opening of the Sainsbury’s superstore.

1 Stepping stones through the water feature 2 Bespoke seating and pergola 3 Formal lawn and topiary 4 Buxus maze 5 Works in progress

REFERENCES Landscaper Elite Landscapes Ltd

www.elitelandscapes.co.uk Yorkstone paving George Lines

www.georgelines.co.uk Sandstone paving Hardscape

Summary This project is one of the largest podium gardens in London, and it enhances the development by being the central focus for the entire complex.

The landscape of this development is certainly a major selling point and is one of the many strengths of the development.

Elite Landscapes is very proud of the scheme and its part in making this one of the most sought after developments in central London.

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www.hardscape.co.uk Water features Fountains & Features

www.fountainsandfeatures.co.uk Plants Crowders Nurseries

www.crowdersnurseries.co.uk Street furniture Bramhall 1840

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LIVING LANDSCAPES Bringing style and luxury to a family-orientated garden

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he client specified a complete rebuild of the rear garden as it wasn’t in keeping with the finish on the rest of the newly renovated property. Inclusion of a bespoke outdoor kitchen and dining area was also required. The swimming pool required full refurbishment, as did the pool house. The client would be hosting family parties in this garden so consideration had to be given to child safety, slippery surfaces and soft areas for the play frame.

Design and build The design and layout of this garden was strongly influenced by the choice of paving. Many samples were given, and it was clear the clients wanted a modern feel with a grey finish, but were also aware that a large section of grey paving could look similar to a concrete finish. Also considered was the texture of the paving, as it would be walked on with wet feet from the pool.

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The final decision was Heath Sawn from London Stone – an excellent piece of stone, it ticked all the client’s requirements. It also came with a pre-made bullnosed tread so the stone could also be used on the swimming pool.

Setting out was straightforward. Considering the swimming pool location, grouting gaps needed to be to the millimetre, and we avoided having a cut slab running along the pool coping.

To add privacy to the pool area, slatted horizontal cedar fencing was installed. This was also used to hide the underground rainwater tank supplying the irrigation system.

A large, bespoke outdoor kitchen and seating area was designed to create a sense of enclosure to the patio and seating area. This outdoor kitchen also had a breakfast bar at the end. Built from block and render, black micro cement was then applied to give it a durable finish.

A seating area and firepit was located on an elevated section of the garden, with slatted

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £266k Build time Eight months Size of project 654m²

1 Patio 2 Water feature 3 Swimming pool and slatted fence 4 Seating 5 Oak steps and frame

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BEFORE ABOUT LIVING LANDSCAPES Tecwyn Evans has run Living Landscapes for 20 years, covering London, Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex. Living Landscapes works with some of the UK’s most talented garden designers to create beautiful, innovative outdoor spaces for discerning clients. Its show gardens at the RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows have received multiple awards.

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fencing. Finally, large pots and quality Scandinavian furniture was sourced to accessorise the outdoor living areas.

Materials Paving used on this project was Heath Sawn supplied by London Stone, with Cedar Nursery providing the cooking facilities and Topcrete installing the micro cement on the barbecue area.

The turf used was Rolawn Medallion supplied by London Lawn Turf, and the swimming pool work was undertaken by Roman Pools. Cedar was supplied by Honey Suckle Sawmill.

Special requirements The most difficult aspect of this construction was making sure the paving was laid so that no cuts were required around the pool. The swimming pool had been originally installed by the builders of the house and its was 23mm out of square; this meant we had to adjust out coping and a paving line to compensate for it.

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REFERENCES Contractor

Rendering

Living Landscapes

TR Plastering

Tecwyn Evans www.livinglandscapesuk.com

www.trplasteringservices.co.uk Micro cement

Design

Topcrete

Our Landscape Designs

www.topcrete.com

www.ourlandscapedesigns.com Turf Paving

London Lawn Turf

London Stone

www.londonlawnturf.co.uk

www.londonstone.co.uk Furniture Swimming pool

Piet Boon

Roman Pools

www.pietboon.com

www.romanpools.com Hedging Timber

Griffin Nurseries

Honey Suckle Sawmill

www.griffinnurseries.co.uk

www.surrey-oak.com Firepit Outdoor cooking

Supplied by Living Landscapes

Cedar Nursery

www.livinglandscapesuk.com

www.landscaping.co.uk

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IN STEP KATHERINE ROPER LANDSCAPE & GARDEN DESIGN Transforming a steep front garden into a shielded yet accessible space on a budget

PROJECT DETAILS Project value Under £10k Build time 12 weeks Size of project 52m²

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he client brief was to create a visually interesting, low maintenance garden.

Important vistas to consider when executing the design were not only the approach from the garden gate but the views from the ground floor bay windows and master bedroom window above.

The main criteria for the design solution was how to hide the two wheelie bins and recycling boxes that were on view from the lounge windows; the client also wanted to resolve the issue of having to take the wheelie bins up and down the existing steep steps every week. The bins choked the pathway to the front door and were a constant nuisance as a result.

The garden sloped from the front of the house to the front rubble stone wall, and was lain to grass which was impractical and high maintenance.

In addition, the client wanted to have a useable area within the front garden to sit in privacy, as it enjoyed a southerly aspect.

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Challenges The challenge was to provide a welcoming approach to the house whilst tackling the level changes. The change in level from the house threshold to the pavement was over 1.2m across a small area, so the run of steps and changes across the site had to be carefully considered, as did the materials.

wanted to make the transition from the gate to the front door easier and more enjoyable, so she spread the steps along the pathway to make it feel less steep, and added planting beds on both sides.

The low budget for this project (under £10k) meant oak sleeper retaining walls rather than stone were the most economical approach, whilst the steps were constructed of stone to match the façade of the house. The choice of Marshalls Autumn Blend sits comfortably with the bath stone detailing in the façade of the house.

The Urbis Design mortar pot added an anchor and further interest to the gravel area.

There is an option to sit in the front and enjoy the morning sun, as the client’s young children have always enjoyed playing on the stepping stone pathway.

ABOUT KATHERINE ROPER Katherine Roper ualified it a o t raduate di lo a in e idential and ca e e i n in e a ub e uently e loyed by a leadin de i n build ractice in ondon n e returned to t e e t ountry to et u er o n de i n ractice in ri tol e i a re i tered e ber o t e ociety o arden e i ner at erine no led e o art de i n and orticulture enable er to deliver a ro e ional and in irational arden de i n ervice www.katherineroper.co.uk

REFERENCES Design Katherine Roper Landscape & Garden Design

www.katherineroper.co.uk

Design and build The entire path and garden was sloping in a haphazard manner and was in disrepair, so Katherine took the decision to level off the main garden area.

Paragon Gardens excavated an area to the right of the front entrance gates in order to hide the bins from the sight line of the bay windows, and for ease of wheeling them to the street outside.

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www.paragongardens.co.uk Plants Middlecombe Nursery (Wrington, Somerset)

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A small Hampstead garden is transformed with clean lines and crisp styling

ost areas of this garden were in a poor state: rotting fences, patio deck, sleeper retaining wall and steps. The artificial turf was full of moss, and had no sub-base. There were few plants, and they were positioned in corners or around the edges. The clients wanted the garden completely redesigned, replacing the wood surfaces with real stone, but keeping the layout of the lower patio by the house, and

retaining the openness of the upper area. They felt that the upper area was devoid of interest and so wanted this area improved, particularly to give an attractive view from the kitchen sink window.

Design and build The design upgraded the patio and retaining wall to limestone paving and rendered wall facing. This stone instantly transformed the look and feel of the space, making it bright and clean-lined.

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1 View across the three areas of the garden 2 Window view of the stairs linking the two levels

The steps to the main garden were widened to improve access, but also to strengthen the link between the two garden areas, which had previously felt rather separate.

On the house side of the lower patio, the kitchen wall comprises a wide space of white plaster. This was broken up by mounting two architectural wall panels, slightly raised from the wall so they could be backlit with LED strip lights at night. Other lighting placed throughout the garden highlights steps, entertaining areas, and key plants.

The main garden area was kept open, but a feeling of ‘rooms’ within it was created by dividing the space into equal thirds using limestone paver paths. The sunniest third was turned into a raised patio with comfortable outside chairs, the middle third (corresponding to the top of the steps) became a small area of artificial turf, and the third area was adapted to contain a bed with semi-formal planting, including Buxus balls and long flowering perennials for year-round interest.

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replaced with Jacksons’ horizontal Hit and Miss fencing which again contributed to making the space feel larger. A mixture of evergreen and deciduous flowering climbers were trained onto the fence to soften it.

Materials All of the hard materials used in the project were sourced to our specifications by the contractor, Belderbos Landscapes. The plants and architectural wall panels were sourced by Peter Reader Landscapes.

Challenges As it was a typical London garden, there was no access except through the house, so all materials had to be manhandled carefully through the home. Because the garden was small but had a lot of paving, the exact positions of the paving slabs had to be carefully planned in advance to ensure the best pattern on the ground, with no small off-cuts. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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ABOUT PETER READER LANDSCAPES Peter Reader Landscapes provides award-winning garden design service, based in North London and the south east. Peter is a versatile designer, as demonstrated by his RHS show gardens – the modern outdoor garden room ‘Al Fresco’ and the naturalistic perennial-style ‘Four Corners’. www.readerlandscapes.com

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REFERENCES Design Peter Reader Landscapes

www.readerlandscapes.com Contractor Belderbos Landscapes

www.belderbos.co.uk

Stone (Jura Beige Limestone) London Stone

www.londonstone.co.uk Fence and trellis (Hit and Miss, Venetian) Jacksons Fencing

www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk Lights LandscapePlus

www.landscapeplus.com Building materials Travis Perkins

www.travisperkins.co.uk Artificial turf (Easi-Mayfair) Easigrass

www.easigrass.com Trees, shrubs, climbers and perennials Northhill Nurseries

www.northhillnurseries.co.uk Architectural wall panels Kyoto Garden Art

www.kyotogardenart.co.uk Furniture Westminster Outdoor Living

www.westminsteroutdoorliving.com Renders K-rend

www.k-rend.co.uk

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• SUPREME AWARD WINNER • WINNER Overall Design & Build • HIGHLY COMMENDED £35k-£60k • HIGHLY COMMENDED Soft Landscaping

RURAL RAPTURE CREATIVE LANDSCAPE CO Traditional-style planting is given a modern update in this Oxfordshire cottage garden

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he brief was to create an outdoor living space to meet the needs of a family and their dog, with traditional cottage-style planting in keeping with the surroundings. The clients required the design to create a new garden within an existing walled area, linking their cottage extension with the existing barn. The style needed to blend in with the surrounding buildings and meet planning requirements in this country location. The clients were also plant lovers and wanted a natural, self-seeded look, with plenty of year-round colour.

The challenge The fundamental challenge was to address the odd angles created by the new extension and existing wall. An informal curved path, with drifts of cottagestyle planting, was cleverly designed to mask these angles and create a flow through the garden, integrating old with new and meeting the needs of family life.

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PROJECT DETAILS 1 A harmonising solution integrates old with new

Project value £35-60k band Build time Four weeks

2 Allium seed heads complement the informal planting 3 Tumbled Indian sandstone patio positioned for sun 4 Informal curved gravel paths soften awkward angles

Size of project 950m²

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The result An outdoor dining area for eight was located away from the house to give the family the sunny aspect they wanted. This new seating area, constructed from tumbled Indian sandstone edged with traditional brick pavers, creates a focal point for the courtyard and is reached via a new informal gravel path, surrounded by bold drifts of cottage-style planting and herbs.

The gravel paths retained with steel edging create a physical journey that integrates the buildings and garden areas seamlessly.

Constructed from local stone, in keeping with the style of the barn and cottage, the paths bleed into the planting, creating a self-seeded look. They draw the eye into the ‘secret’ garden beyond, which includes lawns and a vegetable garden, and leads into meadows and woodland.

The bland walls on one side of the house were transformed by Versailles-inspired diamond climbers, which were planted with a roses, lavender and box. The result is a beautiful, relaxing family courtyard and garden that is sympathetic to the barn’s traditional exterior, contemporary interior and village location.

The planting The plant selection was reflective of the overall garden style, the architecture, and the wider environment, so it reinforced the sense of place.

The client loved plants, particularly traditional cottage plants, but also wanted a more contemporary edge. Given that the main courtyard is permanently overlooked, yew, box and multi-stem trees were used to create structure, along with a series of textural evergreen perennials.

Designer Mark Gillard explains: “We visually referenced many other more floriferous plants that you would associate with a traditional style, but used a reduced palette and, where possible, included grasses and planted in drifts. Accents and details were utilised around the stronger evergreens, through the grasses and against the old brick and oak walls.

“Variable light conditions around the pathways meant that the plant selection needed to accommodate dry, sunny conditions and also deep shade. As a result, the plants that could be repeated in various areas such as box, Libertia, Bergenia, Euphorbia, Anemone and Alchemilla, became key to ensuring a sense of continuity.”

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The designer’s favourite corner • Acer palmatum ‘Linearilobum’ • Buxus sempervirens • Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ • Hakonechloa macra • Polystichum polyblepharum • Hosta ‘Blue Cadet’ • Hosta ‘Francee’ • Ajuga reptans ‘Black Scallop’

1 Bold drifts of cottage-style planting bleed into paths 2 Soft Osteospermum, Stachys and Stipa tenuissima 3 Gravel paths create a journey and link areas 4 Tumbled sandstone sett detail adds charm

ABOUT CREATIVE LANDSCAPE CO Creative Landscape Co is based in Berkshire and has been designing, building and maintaining gardens for over 25 years, and has accumulated a portfolio of award-winning gardens. The company is run and managed by its original owners Glenn George and Mark Gillard, who have been friends for over 45 years and are committed to delivering individual, professional service for their clients. www.creative-landscape.co.uk

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MAY 2017 APL Supreme Winner 2017 Judge’s comment: A harmonising solution to a challenging brief Designer Mark Gillard comments: “We are very proud to receive the APL Supreme Winner 2017 award in addition to the Overall Design and Build award. It’s a real testament to the superb team we have, and also to some lovely clients who trusted in our experience. It’s not the biggest or most complex garden we’ve ever built, but it combines all the right ingredients. As a designer, it’s a reminder that simplicity usually works.”

The judges commented: “The design was absolutely appropriate for the scheme, with great use of structural planting to soften, hold and separate. The angle of the house provides difficult symmetry and geometry. This was a challenging project and a harmonising solution.”

Mark Gillard adds: “This was a challenging and enjoyable project that has matured quickly into a harmonious environment for all the family, who were a pleasure to work with.”

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REFERENCES Design and build Creative Landscape Co

Tel 0118 934 1500 Email info@creative-landscape.co.uk www.creative-landscape.co.uk Tumbled Indian sandstone Stoneworld

www.stoneworld.co.uk

PLANTING

Brick pavers Chelmer Valley

www.chelmervalley.co.uk South Cerney gravel Rivar Sand and Gravel

www.rivarsandandgravel.co.uk Steel path edging Everedge

www.everedge.co.uk Plants and trees The Big Plant Nursery

www.thebigplantnursery.com Outdoor furniture – Client’s own

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DOING THE ROUNDS THE OUTDOOR ROOM A circular redesign delivers a communal atmosphere at the Orchard Lisle Courtyard, part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital

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he client’s brief was to create an inviting main entrance to reflect the scale of the two buildings (Orchard Lisle & Iris Brook House), with planting that took into account a high traffic environment whilst protecting the ground floor rooms from visual intrusion.

The planting also needed to be modern, and reflective of the age and style of the buildings.

The client wanted the hard landscaping to open up the entrance way and make a connection with the rest of the campus,while also creating areas of space and relaxation for both individuals and groups.

Background The courtyard is open to the public, and surrounded on three sides by student accommodation for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. The project was a complete redevelopment of Orchard Lisle Courtyard, including hard and soft landscaping.

1 Custom made seating to fit the curves of the ground pattern, by Factory Furniture 2 The complex layout is kept as subtle as possible.

The space has proved very popular on lunch breaks!

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PROJECT DETAILS

Photo ©Helen Fickling (www.helenfickling.com)

Project value £250k Build time Four months Size of project 770m²

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Challenges The first challenge was to remove the existing landscaping and begin clearing the site. The groundworks were extensive during the project, made more so by the discovery during excavation of a tower crane base which had to be removed.

Existing services were found in almost every location, including a 9in sewer, water mains, and gas and electricity supplies. Some were marked on existing survey drawings, but many had to be uncovered by hand. This involved days of painstaking work – particularly as the student accommodation was occupied during the project, so it was critical to avoid any interruption to utility supplies.

The access restrictions were considerable.

Banksmen were required to direct deliveries down very tight access roads, which were busy with pedestrian traffic.

All surface water had to be disposed of on site, and so Type 3 sub-base material was specified, with water on all hard surfaces needing to be directed to permeable areas. This was particularly challenging on such a level site, as potential pooling of water had to be avoided.

The scheme was a contemporary asymmetric design, including bespoke-cut Yorkstone setts and slabs. This involved setting components to complex radii, installing bespoke timber and stainless steel benches and stabilised gravel paths, and mature tree planting. Every Yorkstone slab had its own cutting number and had to be cut with accuracy to the millimetre.

1 The trees (Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’) help to reduce the dominance of the buildings in this urban environment (Trees supplied by Deepdale Trees Ltd) 2 The site mid-construction 3 The existing overgrown planting and hard landscaping were completely removed

REFERENCES Contractor The Outdoor Room

www.theoutdoorroom.co.uk Design Verde Garden Design

www.verdegardendesign.com York stone paving Rand & Asquith

www.randandasquith.co.uk

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Plants Palmstead Nurseries

www.palmstead.co.uk Trees Deepdale Trees Ltd

www.deepdale-trees.co.uk

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Furniture (benches) Factory Furniture

www.factoryfurniture.co.uk Lighting Scenic Lighting

www.sceniclighting.com Edging Kinley Systems

www.kinley.co.uk

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £12k Build time Eight weeks Size of project 95m²

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Creating a wildlife-friendly front garden for a bungalow in Salisbury

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he objective was to create a wildlife-friendly space in the front garden, which was attractive to look at from inside and outside the property. The clients, a retired couple, wanted to be able to view the street, as they enjoyed watching passing walkers when sitting in the house. The wife enjoyed gardening but had minimal knowledge, so wanted planting that was easy to maintain. Parking for one car was required, and space left in front of the windows so that they could be cleaned.

Background The detached bungalow was on a street close to the River Avon, but because it was laid with tarmacadam it offered a dreary outlook from the house, with no possibility of any wildlife visiting.

As the site was flat, and the client did not want to be enclosed from the road and passing traffic, it was important to try and create some height by planting a couple of trees or multistemmed shrubs; these would create a light but pretty backdrop to the garden as seen from the windows, without casting a heavy shadow Pro Landscaper / PORTFOLIO 2017 77

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Betula utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Grayswood Ghost’ was chosen for its light and airy canopy and luminescent white bark, while a multi-stemmed Amelanchier lamarckii was selected for its spring blossom and autumn colour. The choice of hardscape materials was important too, as there also had to be a functional parking space, and the whole front garden had to read as a cohesive space.

Design and build As the space was rectangular, a strong curving design was implemented. This created two paths and a circular seating area, and diverted attention away from the rectangular shape of the space, giving the illusion of a journey to the front door.

Combined with structural planting, the garden provides enjoyment throughout the year. Narcissi and tulip bulbs give spring interest before the garden explodes into colour during the summer months. Box hedging and topiary provide structure in the winter.

Pavers from Marshalls’s Drivesett range were used for the drive, and a smaller paver from the range for the path. The idea was for the parking and the garden to read as one, and the small setts were perfect for the path’s tight curves.

The front wall was rebuilt using a brick creasing tile detail and topped with a low curved palisade fence. The tile detail was repeated in the centre of the circular paving, where a simple oak bench was installed. From here, a gravel path meandered back through the planting to the main path, leading to the front door.

Drainage had to be addressed as the surface was non-permeable, so a drain was placed at the entrance to the drive with a soakaway, to prevent water draining down onto the road. Drainage for the pathway was directed into the planting beds.

Topsoil had to be imported for the beds because the whole site had previously been hardstanding. As soon as the planting had been completed the wildlife started to appear in the garden, both above and below ground, which hopefully proved that the brief had been met.

ABOUT CAMILLA HILEY GARDENS Camilla Hiley is a Salisbury-based arden de i ner o erin a de i n and consultancy service. Working nationwide, she likes to create spaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and fit or ur o e e a lanted re ularly at t e el ea lo er o or rocu td innin t ree old edal and t ree e t in o or well known and respected designers. www.camillahileygardens.co.uk

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Planting • Alchemilla epipsila • Amelanchier lamarckii • Amsonia tabernaemontana • Anthemis tinctoria ‘Sauce Hollandaise’ • Anemone hupehensis ‘Hadspen Abundance’ • Astrantia ‘Star of Beauty’ • Betula utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Grayswood Ghost’ • Calamintha nepeta • Erigeron karvinskianus • Geranium ‘Nimbus’ • Geum ‘Prinses Juliana’ • Libertia grandiflora • Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ • Salvia x sylvestris ‘Tänzerin’

1 Tulip ‘Ballerina’, ‘Spring Green’ and ‘Jan Reus’ 2 Seating area with Anthemis ‘Sauce Hollandaise’ and Geum ‘Prinses Juliana’ 3 Curved path with Alchemilla epipsila and Geranium ‘Nimbus’ 4 Betula ‘Grayswood Ghost’ with Tulip ‘Dolls Minuet’ in foreground 5 Path to front door with Allium nigrum and Astrantia ‘Star of Beauty’

REFERENCES Designer Camilla Hiley

www.camillahileygardens.co.uk Landscape contractor Wycliffe Landscapes Ltd

www.landscapersdorset.co.uk Tree supplier Hilliers

www.hillier.co.uk Plants Chichester Trees and Shrubs

www.ctsplants.com Bulbs Peter Nyssen

www.peternyssen.com

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Paving Marshalls

www.marshalls.co.uk Bricks and Aco drain Jewsons

www.jewson.co.uk Fencing Made by Wycliffe Landscapes

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PROJECT DETAILS

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Project value £75k Build time Eight weeks

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Size of project 600m²

Meticulous planning ensures the successful refurbishment of patient courtyards at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester

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The project was named ‘The Starlight Garden’, and was predominantly financed through fundraising activities arranged by local charities and Manchester-based radio station Key 103FM. Key 103FM launched the ‘Operation Outpatients’ appeal as part of their annual fundraising event ‘Cash for Kids Day’, aiming to raise funds to undertake the rejuvenation of the courtyard.

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paving and sensory planting in a maritime theme with a colourful blue pool, gravel beach and chunky timber uprights; dry coastal style plants and grasses rustle in the breeze and provide interest for touch and smell.

Build With the site being a live hospital, access restrictions and the safety of patients, staff and the general public were paramount. All materials had to be trafficked through the hospital, and their movement had to be coordinated so as not to disturb surrounding wards. Works were undertaken at hours to suit the wards and outside peak visiting periods.

Works to the courtyard included the removal of existing concrete surfacing, earthwork remodelling, installing gabion walls, log walls and a new drainage system, futureproofing the lighting scheme, cladding existing walls, resin bound surfacing and a soft landscaping scheme.

Materials had to be transported by crane as the courtyard was enclosed within the heart of the hospital complex, and no materials could be moved through the wards. A lifting schedule was produced in line with idverde’s construction programme and delivery schedule. One neighbouring area was a neuropathic ward in which sleep monitoring was taking place, so close liaison with this department was required.

Challenges As the environment was a working hospital, dust and waste had to be kept to a minimum.

Restrictions were imposed on waste production and dust-causing operations, due to dust spawn creating bacteria within the hospital. To ensure dust presence complied with hospital regulations, weekly meetings were held with the hospital’s professor in microbiology, to analyse data gathered around the working area.

Due to cleanliness requirements, idverde had to seal all windows and doors that opened onto the courtyard to prevent dust and bacteria getting into the wards and operating theatres. Air and dust samples were taken on a weekly basis by the hospital trust to monitor operations. All operatives gaining access to the courtyard had to remove outside boots and use foot covers to prevent the spread of bacteria and dust throughout the hospital corridors.

The site had very limited access, so materials had to be transported via crane over the building and lowered into the courtyard. Even the excavator required to remodel the ground levels had to be lifted in and out.

Approximately 100m³ of spoil needed to be removed as a result of remodelling works. The spoil was put into jumbo bags, stacked in the already small courtyard, and then craned out. This made the working area even smaller, and required

detailed planning to ensure that works could take place each day, with minimal crane requirements to keep costs down.

Detailed weekly meetings were held between idverde’s project manager, Kevin Pearson, and the hospital trust staff to liaise on operating schedules, planned appointments and sleep clinics, ensuring that logistics plans complemented these and caused no operational disruption to the functions of the adjoining wards and theatres.

1 Children’s soft surfacing play area 2 Sensory garden and resin paths 3 Sea-themed soft surfacing 4 Gabion walling 5 All plant had to be hoisted into the courtyard 6 Unilog retaining wall

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REFERENCES Contractor idverde www.idverde.co.uk

Topsoil

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Plants

Halsall Lloyd Partnership

Boningale

www.hlpdesign.com

R Draper Ltd

www.rdraperltd.co.uk

www.boningale.co.uk

Crane work

Resin bound paths

Commhoist

Midland Decorative Surfaces

www.commhoist.co.uk

www.decorativesurfaces.co.uk

Mot stone, ballast cement, weatherboard, cladding

Wet pour

AGS

www.dcmsurfaces.com

www.advancedgroundwork.com

DCM Surfaces

Log retaining wall gates, framework for cladding, sleeper steps Hales Sawmills Ltd

www.halessawmills.co.uk

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WINNER Finalist and Winner: ‘Residential Landscaping Design Award 2016’

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £30k Build time 2 months Size of project 170m2

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DAVID KEEGAN GARDEN DESIGN Clever use of space transforms a small city garden in Salford into an award-winning and picture-perfect haven for insect life

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he fundamental design principle behind this project, and the brief set by the client, was for a low maintenance space that was more outward looking and European in its aesthetic than a traditional English garden. It was also a requirement that the design for the garden displayed a strong architectural context, as well as providing a haven for insect life that could coexist in harmony with humans – quite a lot to expect from what is a very small space.

Design A big part of David’s vision was to create a connection between the inside and outside space, and generate a sense of being immersed in the garden, even when seated inside. In carrying this out, he deliberately decided not to follow the fashion of extending the inside out, and instead created a separate nature space that provided a complementary flow between the two, rather than a continuous connection. David wanted the garden to connect to all the senses and to be a ‘picture’ whatever the weather and time of year, whilst equally needing it to fill and flow with the seasons.

As the garden was very small, the primary challenge was to try and include everything the client wanted without compromising or swamping the space. For example, the hidden raised beds came about following a conversation David had with the client where it became evident they would be used to grow a small selection of seasonal salad leaves and spinach – plants that would cope with the reduced light levels of raised beds – but equally, hidden away, wouldn’t look unsightly when not in use. By incorporating the raised beds behind a screen, David was able to achieve this without compromising the overall aesthetic balance of the garden.

Similarly, the wood store is practical as a space to season wood for a wood burning stove, but is also aesthetically complementary to the overall scheme. The green walls allowed David to create depth and use colour and planting to draw the eye beyond the sculptural screens, but in a space-controlled way that could also be easily maintained. Likewise, the bug houses were visually complementary as well as being useful habitats for wildlife.

The use of a cobble base was a deliberate move to get away from the usual grassed lawn area, requiring less maintenance and therefore causing less environmental pressure. It also played to the sculptural dimensions of the design,and lends texture and contrasting foils to the interplanting, the effects

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of which will increase as planting matures and develops. In this way, the small space provides the calming retreat that the client wanted, as well as embracing and supporting the natural environment in a holistic and balanced manner.

Planting The wildlife-friendly planting included the new hybrid Verbena bonariensis ‘Lollipop’ – a lower growing and more compact variety than the standard Verbena bonariensis, which can tend to get overly large and straggly in a small space. This was combined with Salvia officinalis ‘Purpurascens’ and Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’, plus another, somewhat new Echinacea purpurea hybrid, ‘Kim’s Knee High’ – a shorter and more compact variety of Echinacea, with an almost metallic sheen to the petals. Origanum vulgare, with its soft lime green foliage and pale pinkish-white flowers, and creeping lemon thymes, were then planted to add contrast. David also chose the compact Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead’, completing the haven of colour and scent.

The effect of this style of planting is to create layers of colour and contrast from the ground up to just over 60cm – about the right height for the size of the space, as it provides a good picture without overwhelming the senses of the viewer. Cool colours in the lower planting layer act as a perfect foil for stronger colours in the top layer.

Planting to the cobbled areas was more muted, with silver greys and bronzes providing a framework for the central zone. The scheme included such gems as Eryngium giganteum ‘Miss Wilmott’s Ghost’, contrasted with the bronze panicles of Carex buchananii ‘Red Rooster’, which picked up the tones of the Corten pots, cobbles and boulders. The striking panicles and flower stems of Calamagrostis × acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’, green with flowering stems of soft buff, continue the evolving sense of drama and contrast in the garden.

The end result when you are seated inside the house and looking out on the garden is that it acts as a calming backdrop and picture. When you sit in the garden, on the other hand, you are totally immersed, and can escape the connection and confines of the house. In this way, the garden becomes a discrete, but complementary, separate space. While the two spaces coexist and connect, they both offer very different moods and, consequentially, very different emotional responses.

On David’s summer visit to the garden in the first year, he was delighted to find it brimming with colour, texture and wildlife.

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REFERENCES Garden design and planting David Keegan Garden Design

David Keegan, assisted by Natalie Rutter www.davidkeegangardendesignand landscapingconsultancy.co.uk Hard landscaping Spruce Landscapes

Kris Kennedy, assisted by Shaun Hattersley and Bradley Campbell www.sprucelandscapes.co.uk Timber supplies (American yellow pine and western red cedar) The Manchester Deck Company Ltd

Chris Lowe www.manchesterdeck.co.uk

Bespoke screens, raised beds, living walls wood store and bug house Spruce Landscapes

Kris Kennedy www.sprucelandscapes.co.uk Green wall components Tree Box Easi Green Wall

www.treebox.co.uk Plants

Boot & Co Nurseries

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www.boot.nl/en Furniture

Bespoke order from the Skyline range

Made in Belgium, supplied by DK Garden Design on behalf of Skyline www.sky-linedesign.co.uk Corten steel pots

1 Summer colour stone effect cushions, with Corten pots in background

The Pot Company

www.thepotco.com

2 View from back of garden towards seating area outside the house’s bifold doors

Stone effect cushions Custom made Livingstone cushions

3 Bumblebee collects nectar from Verbena bonariensis ‘Lollipop’ inflorescence 4 Hidden planters to rear of sculpture panels provide the perfect place to grow salad leaves and other semi-shade loving edibles 5 Even dragonflies have turned up to feed on the nectar-rich plants 6 Green walls draw the eye past the Corten Pots and cedar panels and into the trees beyond, lending a sense of depth to a shallow garden 7 Acers planted in the Corten pots lend exquisite colour, warmth and seasonal interest 8 Bare bones, the framework of a garden midconstruction 9 The garden as seen on David’s first visit www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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ABOUT DAVID KEEGAN GARDEN DESIGN David Keegan is an award-winning garden designer specialising in medium to large scale domestic and commercial projects. His designs set out to strengthen the connection between people and place through harmonious use of plants and materials. www.davidkeegangardendesignand landscapingconsultancy.co.uk

Designed and manufactured

by Stéphanie Marin in Nice, France www.smarin.net/en/ Portuguese bush hammered stone Trade Price Stone Ltd

www.tradepricestoneltd.co.uk Scottish river cobble JH Mayor Timber and Fencing Specialists

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WINNER Big Ideas, Small Budget Winner of the Big Ideas, Small Budget category at this year’s SGD Awards Ceremony on 27th January 2017 at The Landmark Hotel, London. What the judges said: “A beautifully effortless garden, designed to enhance a lovely view.

A strong, simple and incredibly effective idea.”

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AHEAD OF THE CURVE JOANNE WILLCOCKS An innovative winding path leads to an idyllic lakeside setting in this rural Cheshire garden

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £12k Build time One month Size of project 107m²

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his garden belongs to a converted mews barn in a quiet rural setting, overlooking a small lake in Cheshire.

It is southwest facing, surrounded by nature and teeming with wildlife. The original garden was heavily hard-landscaped 25 years ago using a number of different materials, with heavy rustic fencing, sparse planting, and – surprisingly – nowhere to sit.

The brief was to create a garden that sat comfortably in its setting, with a terrace for lounge chairs where the clients could relax and make the most of the view and early evening sun. A large planting area was also required to provide some privacy for the main seating area in the summer months, to be created in a naturalistic style in order to encourage bees, birds and butterflies.

The design and build The garden required a sensitive approach that embraced its natural setting. The solution was to design something simple, bold and organic, that encouraged wildlife, harmonised with the view, and used natural materials that respected the local vernacular. The curvaceous hardwood deck design creates movement through the garden and makes it feel bigger as it winds its way to the water’s edge.

1 The curvaceous deck viewed from the bedroom 2 Light metal fencing built on site by local artist 3 The view from the main living area (early May) 4 ‘See-through’ string chairs were chosen so as not to dominate the space and preserve the lake views even when left in front of the glass doors 5 A garden full of bee and butterfly friendly plants 6 View back to the house (late June)

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BEFORE Jo worked in collaboration with Rick and Mark from Richard Morris Garden Landscaping in order to realise the design. The path’s frame was built in sections and the boards laid parallel to the house, before the final curved shape was marked out and cut.

Challenges The garden could only be reached through the house and via a footpath running along the back of adjacent properties; fortunately, the neighbours were supportive of the improvements. Deliveries and skips had to be positioned at the end of this path, so there was a lot of barrowing back and forth — no mean feat, with 20 tonnes of topsoil.

Water seepage from the lake had been a problem at the bottom of the garden, so a submerged retaining wall was built and camouflaged with reclaimed duck stones that sloped gently to the water’s edge, to allow wildlife to wander in and out.

The clients’ immediate neighbour is increasingly housebound and wanted to enjoy

ABOUT JOANNE WILLCOCKS Joanne Willcocks, Gardens by Design, creates beautiful and imaginative outdoor spaces in Cheshire and surrounding counties.

Her appreciation of good design, along with her love of the landscape and horticulture, allows her to create gardens that work both functionally and aesthetically for their owners.

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the views to the lake from their lounge, so Jo designed a light, rusted metal fence that mimics local estate fencing and commissioned local metal artist, Andrew Smith, to build it on-site.

Planting took a few adjustments to keep a channel of plants at a lower level, so that the view to the lake could be maintained from the neighbour’s favourite armchair.

1 Before: heavily hard landscaped with no comfortable area to sit 2 During: sinuous curves revealed just after cutting 3 After: the richness of the yellow balau hardwood deck shines through post rain

REFERENCES Designer Joanne Willcocks, Gardens by Design

Planting and accessories The garden was designed to respond to the seasons and the needs of its owners, by keeping the planting low in the winter and spring to make the most of the views from inside the house at ground level, and then high in the summer when more privacy is required.

The scheme includes two multistem Amelanchiers to provide privacy and spring and autumn interest. As they mature, the lower stems will be kept clear to allow glimpses of the lake.

Planting includes butterfly-friendly Cirsium, Cephalaria, Salvia, Echinops, Persicaria and Verbena. Evergreen Libertia, Euphorbia, grasses and various seed heads — including Allium, Sedum, Rudbeckia, Phlomis and Agastache — provide additional winter interest, with miniature Narcissus, Fritillaria, Pulmonaria and Tulipa sylvestris marking the arrival of spring.

The old carriage lamp that was already in situ was left in place for task lighting, but lighting is primarily provided by candles and storm lanterns. Finally, light garden chairs were chosen to preserve the organic lines of the deck, along with a Danish-designed table with a removable tray, to carry drinks and nibbles to the terrace.

07903 974 467; jo@joannewillcocks.co.uk www.joannewillcocks.co.uk Landscaper Richard Morris Garden Landscaping

07791 871 946 Decking Silva Timber

www.silvatimber.co.uk Bespoke fencing Andrew Smith – Hillview Forge, Tattenhall

01829 770 082 Plants

Bluebell Cottage Nursery

www.bluebellcottage.co.uk Ladybrook Nursery

www.ladybrooknursery.com Pickmere Perennials

www.pickmereperennials.com Garden Furniture: string chairs Cox & Cox

www.coxandcox.co.uk Cane-line table Outdoor Chic

www.outdoorchic.co.uk Duck stones Lifted from original garden and reused

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value RM282.9 million Build time 2.5 years Size of project 1.9 hectares

PARADISE FOUND GRANT ASSOCIATES An ambitious Malaysian development provides a sensory experience for residents and visitors

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esigned by developer Pulau Indah Ventures to offer an oasis of urban wellness, the Afiniti development covers a total area of 1.9ha and comprises five zones: serviced apartments, residential units, a wellness centre, a corporate training centre and wellness-themed retail.

Afiniti, with architecture by the Kuala Lumpur-based aQidea Architects, was a key project in the development of Medini, a township spanning 9.2km².

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The Oasis garden All of Afiniti’s zones converge on a green podium courtyard which sits on the development’s basement car park. Designed and delivered by Grant Associates’ Singapore office, The Oasis is a green space with landscape features on multiple levels, including a central ravine, colonnade, water walls and overhead walkways. Each garden space was designed to respond to the adjacent building: • The wellness centre garden was devised to create a soothing retreat, with an enclosed feel for privacy. Features include a yoga deck, reflective pool and reflexology path, and the planting palette focuses on scented and medicinal plants, to soothe the senses.

• The corporate training centre maximises opportunities for people to meet and share ideas. An indoor/outdoor experience provides shelter from the tropical heat while still benefiting from a lush garden setting.

• Gardens relating to retail, food and beverage include spaces for outdoor dining beneath feature trees, providing shade and maximising views through the wider landscape.

• Residential gardens create a welcoming retreat for occupants, including tropical flower gardens and a children’s play area.

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water features to offer a cooling experience in the city.

Level changes were maximised by creating a sheltered colonnade space, large central pool and water walls.

Key facts • 50% of the development area is vegetated • 550 trees are planted including 36 different species, 15 native species • 55 different species of shrub and ground covers • 30% of the proposed species have medicinal benefits

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Concept The aim of The Oasis is to provide a retreat where people can enhance their wellbeing by immersing themselves in nature. Grant Associates took the structure of a fruiting tree as its inspiration: shoots and stems (paths and linking walkways) create a network across the space, with fruits and pods (individual gardens) occurring at key nodes. These provide spaces for seeds and flowers (art, play and water features).

The key theme of multi-layered green space continues into the five zones in the form of sky-rise, rooftop gardens and vertical planting.

Carly Lamb, senior associate at Grant Associates, comments: “Afiniti’s landscape concept was a fundamental part of the identity of this scheme for Medini, which centres on the theme of wellbeing.

“Every aspect of the landscape aims to enhance residents’ and visitors’ sense of wellness and to inspire the imagination and excite the five senses. The scheme offers a range of experiences, from adventure and discovery to therapeutic areas of reflection and calm.

Social experiences are also provided for in the form of barbecue areas, play spaces and places to sit together and enjoy the surrounding, natural lushness.

“This project is significant as it demonstrates the possibilities of creating unique and characterful spaces,

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while dealing with the complexity of establishing a landscape on a podium structure.”

Challenges Considerable coordination was required between Grant Associates and other disciplines and contractors to ensure that the key landscape elements would be maintained throughout the build. For example, lowering the structural slabs and beam to allow for required soil depths and water features within the limited space.

The site’s relatively small size and intensity meant there was an overlap of various contractors working at any one time. This called for the careful protection of completed works. In addition, high quality tree stock proved difficult, though possible, to source in Malaysia.

Planting • Tropical, informal spaces The aesthetics of the planting are informal, embracing the patterns of nature rather than straight lines. The layered and lush feel of the planting gives a relaxed feel to each space, which in turn adds to the restorative benefits.

• Medicinal and indigenous species Many species that are indigenous to Malaysia and South East Asia were used, allowing the gardens to be rooted in the local context. Plant species traditionally related to healing are also

incorporated throughout. The aim is to weave nature into the built environment, emphasise the connectedness of all life forms, and enable people to experience nature’s healing power.

• A sensory experience The planting was chosen to appeal to the five senses: scented and colourful flowers, textural leaves, plants that move in the breeze, and edible herbs. All selections were made to demonstrate the multifunctional uses of plants and the delight of the natural world. The planting also provides a retreat for fauna in the urban environment, with birds, butterflies and insects enhancing the sensory experience of being immersed in the natural world.

• Colour and delight Among the layered tropical planting of various greens, colour highlights were used, as found within a natural rainforest. The colour of the planting responds to the use of the space: for example, the food and beverage areas have richness with red and blue highlights,

while the wellness centre garden uses cooler shades of white and pink.

• Creating structure, shade and screening The multi-layered forest approach provide a structure to give hierarchy to the sequence of spaces. Taller trees offer a filtered shade canopy to key spaces and routes, while smaller flowering and fruiting trees and shrubs provide colour and richness. Taller shrubs were used to provide enclosure and screening where privacy and seclusion were desired.

REFERENCES Design Grant Associates

www.grant-associates.uk.com Main contractor, including all hardworks and structures Sunway Construction Sdn. Bhd

www.sunwayconstruction.com.my Soft landscape contractor (planting) Green Hub Sdn. Bhd

www.green-hub.com

1 Illustrative view looking into the ravine

Architecture

2 Illustrative section through the central ravine

aQidea Architects

3 Entrance steps and water cascade 4 Sensory garden 5 Waterfall into the ravine pool

www.aqidea.co.my Developer Pulau Indah Ventures

6 Bridge linking across the ravine

ABOUT GRANT ASSOCIATES Grant Associates is an international landscape architecture consultancy. It has experience in all scales and types of ecological and landscape development including strategic landscape planning, master planning, urban design and regeneration, and landscapes for housing, education, sport, recreation and commerce. www.grant-associates.uk.com

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value Circa ÂŁ30k Build time May 2013-April 2014 Size of project 75m2

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A petite courtyard garden near Manchester is given a chic transformation with sharp lines and an eye-catching planting scheme

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he client approached Aralia to design their small courtyard garden, having seen their show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and RHS Tatton Park in 2012. The space was tiny, approaching 80m2 including the front garden, and felt very much like a corridor due to a new L-shaped kitchen extension that protruded significantly into the garden.

The brief was to maximise the functionality of the space, while also ensuring a beautiful view when seen from within. To achieve this effect, Aralia focused on creating a mix of levels to capitalise on the existing space, as well as

adding a terrace that served as an ambient seating area and could be easily accessed from the kitchen.

Materials After discussing the brief with the client, Aralia researched ideas for a material palette, created a mood board and liaised closely with the customer, gaining a good understanding of the material aesthetic and clinical level of detail required in the finish. Aralia then contacted a number of their trusted suppliers and consultant contractors to discuss which materials would suit these requirements most appropriately. Once final Pro Landscaper / PORTFOLIO 2017 95

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selections had been made, samples of all materials were collated and sent to the client for approval.

Design and build In this small courtyard garden, spatial planning and simplicity was paramount, in order to maximise usability and make the space feel larger than it actually was. A high level of attention to detail and material quality were imperative to reflect the exceptional standard of the interior, and to successfully juxtapose contemporary materials with the Victorian terraced house. Soft landscaping pockets were used to break up the corridor-like side space, creating two separate, comfortably proportioned areas and providing seasonal interest.

A beautiful Ipe hardwood deck was designed and installed to provide a seating area that can

be accessed immediately from the kitchen. The existing brick wall was rendered and painted an off-white colour to create a feeling of lightness and airiness, and was complemented with pale grey sandstone paving, trimmed with grey sandstone sett detail. Slate grey planters were introduced to provide raised planting, creating a mix of levels to offer interest as well as an aesthetic transition from the lower level sandstone paving to the upper deck, Due to budget restraints, only a very low-key lighting scheme was introduced.

Aralia designed a mix of evergreen and herbaceous planting so that the garden had structure throughout the year, while also having colour and seasonality. As the garden is very compact, the plants were chosen specially for their size and impact, given the constraints of the site.

Challenges Initial proposals had to be adapted to suit a reduced client budget while maintaining a strong design. An existing brick wall had significant issues, being aesthetically unattractive and in poor repair; to overcome this, Aralia introduced steel posts and a hard wood slatted trellis, strengthening the wall and providing privacy.

ABOUT ARALIA Aralia is an award-winning practice that works to the highest standards, pushing boundaries and exploring new concepts in landscape design.

Aralia has a strong record in delivering residential gardens that are unique to each client and have a distinct character that relates to the architecture of the house and surrounding landscape. www.aralia.org.uk

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REFERENCES Design

Stone setts

Decking

Aralia

CED

Exterior Decking

www.aralia.org.uk Build/Contractor

www.ced.ltd.uk

www.jacques landscapes.co.uk

Decorative aggregates, fencing, hard wood slatted trellis, plants and rattan garden furniture

Stone paving

All sourced by Jacques Landscapes

Jacques Landscapes

London Stone

www.londonstone.co.uk

www.jacques landscapes.co.uk

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www.exteriordecking.co.uk Planters Europlanters

www.europlanters.com

1 Front driveway, Buxus cubes and hydrangea hedging 2 Contemporary planter formed with a block work rendered wall and natural stone coping 3 Alliums and lillies providing colour and impact 4 Side courtyard – horizontal paving details break up the space and stop it looking like a corridor 5 View of paving detail during the build 6 Front driveway as was 7 Side courtyard as was

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CIRCLE TIME WATER GEMS A clever circular water feature is the centrepiece of an ambitious domestic landscaping project in Merchiston, Edinburgh

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he clients approached garden designer Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens in 2014 and asked her to join a team of architects and interior designers in creating a home and garden for them in the Merchiston area of Edinburgh. Carolyn created an ambitious design and asked Water Gems to build it.

Brief The brief was to create ‘something amazing’ that maximised space and complemented the clients’ Georgian villa. The garden also had to function well.

The design involved the construction of a sunken garden, across which a scorched oak boardwalk creates a bridge leading to a stone and slate garden building. A circular rill water feature runs through the sunken garden, which is planted with clipped box balls and tulips.

Build The garden has many points of interest, including a mosaic at the front door, a copper tub water feature with water lilies, a cedar greenhouse and an attractive log store. Water Gems also installed four raised vegetable beds, black basalt paving and steps that are defined by a Clashach sandstone inlay, a circular Cedagravel driveway, bespoke trellis panels and a gate, as well as ducting for electrical and water supplies, and base preparation for the shed and greenhouse.

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Planting included 50 mature trees and shrubs, extensive herbaceous specimens, mature beech hedging, a lawn, and underground staking of 20 pleached Photinias and Parrotias, which provide structure and privacy.

The sunken garden was a risky design feature due to the difficulty in getting the heavy clay soil to drain sufficiently for successful planting. Topsoil was removed and set aside, subsoil was removed, drainage crates were installed and 450mm of topsoil was returned to the area to provide the finished levels. Drainage gravel was incorporated, as well as 100mm of reshredded mushroom compost.

Care was taken to ensure that turf could grow successfully right up to the coping stone of the retaining walls around the sunken garden. A subtle water feature was installed using a steel rill, pump and filtration system underneath the boardwalk. This allowed for easy access, and also deadened the sound of the pump.

1 Oak boardwalk across the sunken garden planted with clipped box and tulips 2 Burlington stone and slate roofed garden building viewed across the sunken garden with rill 3 Joel Baker’s intricate mosaic in clashach stone and black basalt 4 London Stone’s black basalt stone copes and Burlington walling stone 5 Copper tub water feature by Ratho Byres Forge 6 Front garden black basalt paths, beech hedging and tulip planting

PRINCIPAL AWARD WINNER Domestic Garden Construction (£100,000-£250,000)

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value Up to £200k Build time Two years Size of project 1,250m2

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The walls of the garden building – and the retaining walls of the sunken garden, patio, and step risers – were all built out of blockwork, and finished with dry stone-effect facing from Burlington Stone. Four raised rebar beds were created to provide areas for fruit, vegetables and wildflowers to be grown. The beds were built with reinforced steel bars, used as uprights around which longer lengths of rebar were woven to produce an effect similar to woven willow. These structures were exceptionally strong, and also had very low impact on the garden as only minimal foundations were required to anchor them into the ground. They were then lined with Terram and filled with a soil/manure mix ready for planting.

Underground work included the installation of drainage crates in the sunken garden to help with poor draining clay soil and accommodation of house drains, as well as an attenuation tank and its associated power supply, access hatch, and ventilation pipe. Water Gems installed ducting for lighting and water supplies, with a state-of-the-art electrical system inside the house requiring a complicated network of cables to allow for a variety of lighting circuits.

Challenges The project took almost two years to complete, from site clearance to finishing touches. Efforts were made to ensure neighbours were disrupted as little as possible. Considerate parking, off-street skips and daily road and pavement cleaning were strictly applied. Deliveries by articulated lorries were difficult as the street was narrow, and during the winter months the site became so wet and muddy that temporary hardcore access was created to allow the delivery of skips and materials.

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cooperation on issues such as access and shared tasks. Both internal and external sites were accessed via one very narrow driveway. Water Gems suggested creating a second, temporary entrance by taking down part of the front boundary wall and then rebuilding it at the end of the project. It was then possible to ensure that key areas of the garden did not become compacted by site traffic.

As mentioned, drainage was an issue from the start. Topsoil was reserved during the first phase and protected for the duration of the build, round-particled drainage sand was rotovated into the lawn area and dressed over the surface, and all borders were prepared with a thick layer of reshredded mushroom compost. Midway through the project, the siting and size of an attenuation tank changed, so Water Gems had to make changes to the design to accommodate access hatches and the power supply, ensuring the tank was sited beneath a path rather than a border.

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The clients are absolutely over the moon with this garden – they love the finish, the attention to detail, and the quality of workmanship. They were particularly appreciative of the time and care taken by all of Water Gems’ staff involved and the successful coordination with other contractors.

ABOUT WATER GEMS Water Gems is a landscape and water feature specialist based in Edinburgh. Its services include garden and water feature design and high quality landscape construction, from small gardens and ponds to full design and build packages. Water Gems has extensive experience, a broad range of skills and an innovative approach. www.watergems.co.uk

1 Black basalt path with clashach inlay 2 View of garden building 3 Carolyn Grohmann’s design 4 The water rill under construction 5 Joel Baker installing the mosaic 6 The rear garden before construction began 7 Bespoke log store made from Scottish larch 8 Front garden pedestrian entrance with Ratho Byres Forge’s railings and gate

REFERENCES Build Water Gems

www.watergems.co.uk Design Carolyn Grohmann

www.secretgardensdesign.co.uk Circular steel rill water feature

Metal curved railings and gates, copper tub water feature

Cedar greenhouse

Cedagravel

Gabriel Ash

CED

Ratho Byres Forge

www.gabrielash.com

Mosaic

Plants, hedges and trees (including pleached Photinias and Parrotias)

Drainage crates

Joel Baker at Stoneman Mosaics

Binny Plants

www.plasticdrainage.co.uk

www.rathobyresforge.co.uk

www.stonemanmosaics.com

www.binnyplants.com

www.ced.ltd.uk BP Plastics

Built by Water Gems

Black basalt paving

Reshredded mushroom compost

London Stone

Ducting for electrical and water supplies

www.londonstone.co.uk

Garden Solutions

Scorched oak board walk

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Michaela Huber

www.michaela-huber.co.uk Trellis panels and gate The Garden Trellis Company

Dry stone effect facing Burlington Stone

www.burlingtonstone.co.uk

www.gardentrellis.co.uk

Clashach sandstone inlay

Bespoke timber log store

www.scottishcobbles.co.uk

Built by Water Gems, larch supplied by Scottish Wood

www.scottishwood.co.uk Raised rebar beds Built by Water Gems

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Tennants of Elgin

Stone and slate garden building Framework by Edinburgh Building Company

www.edinburghbuildingcompany.co.uk

www.gardensolutions.info

www.pdmltd.co.uk

Turf

Garden lighting

Rigby Taylor

Installed by Nicholson Brothers Electricians

www.rigbytaylor.com Lawn edging (EverEdge Pro) EverEdge

www.everedge.co.uk Gravel, Type 1, builders sand, decorative aggregates, Terram lining The Builders Supply Company

www.thebuilderssupply.co.uk

www.nicholsonbros.com Garden furniture Cyan

www.cyan-teak-furniture.com Terracotta and ceramic pots Italian Terrace

www.italianterrace.co.uk

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PRIVATE SCREENING VIRIDIAN LANDSCAPE STUDIO A problem-solving approach brings a sense of seclusion to the grounds of Cliveden House in Berkshire

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liveden House is a privately owned five star hotel and spa that sits within a 375 acre National Trust estate. London and Regional Properties purchased the lease in 2012 and began a restoration programme for the property and its immediate surroundings.

Brief The project was commissioned in February 2016, with the brief consisting of two parts. The first part was to create a feeling of exclusivity in the Members Area and Astor Grill in the Clocktower Courtyard, using planter installations. The second part was to provide screening from the main Spa Garden for Garden Room guests, using planters and trelliswork, and to divide the Garden Terrace into four private areas with hardwood partitions, each serving an individual bedroom suite.

The Garden Terrace divisions were required to be slatted Iroko screens, with gates for maintenance and fire access, but posts couldn’t be secured into

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the ground as there was a void beneath that was being used as a plant room.

post fixings with 8mm thick and 500mm square steel base plates, from the centre of which rose the post supports. The base plates were fixed Design and build through the York slab at each corner, using There were significant restrictions as the hotel 12mm anchor bolts secured with resin Kemfast. has Grade 1 listing, and any installation or To provide stability, 400mm polystone cubic refurbishment work had to be approved by the planters were bolted onto the plates and filled National Trust. The stone setts in with pea shingle to a depth of the Clocktower Courtyard and 150mm; this was followed by the stone slab surface of the John Innes No.3 compost Garden Terrace were of particular before Buxus balls were concern. The courtyard was laid planted. Additional stability with uneven cobbles that fell to a was provided by 27mm gradient, and the National Trust diameter galvanised steel Project value had instructed that no part of the rods running along the length £60k surface could be disturbed. As of the screens, through the the Garden Terrace was raised posts, and into receiving Build time above the plant room, a creative brackets secured to the hotel 10 weeks including design solution was needed for wall. To ensure there was no commissioning installing the Iroko screens. The ‘back side’ to the screens, partitions were required to be as which are viewed from both Size of project 2 lightweight as possible due to sides, the slats were secured Two areas: 203m 2 the void beneath. centrally to the posts within a and 120m As no in-ground method slotted rail system. could be used to attach the A late development in the screens to the terrace and fixings had to be refurbishment programme for the Garden applied directly to the surface of the slabs, Viridian Terraces was the installation of an individual hot used several innovative techniques to secure tub in each of the four private areas. This them. This included the manufacture of bespoke delayed the date when work could begin

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on site, and meant that there were only four days for the installation of three screens, 11 planters and 22 wirework trellis sections – as well as planting and clean-up.

To address this challenge and reduce installation time, Viridian built the screen panels and gates off site. The Iroko screens were designed in sufficient detail that all the timber was ordered and supplied to exact sizes, and construction of the panels could progress speedily. An unfortunate interruption occurred when the timber merchants’ crosscut saw broke in the middle of the order being machined, resulting in a day’s delay in its delivery. However, this problem was solved by the construction team working over the weekend.

All planting had to be containerised as there was no opportunity to plant directly into the ground, and it also needed to be aesthetically pleasing while being manageable for the maintenance company. In addition, Viridian designed lockable castors for the Clocktower Courtyard planters, to enable flexibility.

Special requirements Sensitivity was required to ensure as little disturbance as possible to the hotel and guests during the installation process. This meant

ABOUT VIRIDIAN LANDSCAPE STUDIO Viridian is a landscape design studio run by Andrew Halksworth and Anne Jennings, whose combined knowledge and experience has developed over any year or in in di erent area o t e landscape industry. Viridian works with architects, property developers, planning consultants and private o eo ner and it ort olio al o include rivate c ool and a ide ran e o co ercial or ani ation

www.viridian.uk.com

ABOUT ANNE JENNINGS Anne Jennings MBALI MSGD MCIHortt trained in orticulture and arden de i n ro ollo in a year ban in career and acted a orticultural advi or to t e arden u eu in ondon or al o t year e i t e aut or o even ardenin boo and rite or ardenin a a ine and ne a er as well as appearing on television and radio gardening programmes.

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BEFORE

meeting hotel staff early in the design stages to agree visit times and working hours, as well as parking and access instructions.

Deliveries required prearranged meeting points, as the house stands within a large estate with a 5mph speed limit on the main driveways. Each supplier was instructed to pull in at the coach drop off point, and was then escorted to the relevant delivery area.

Other challenges included tight budgets and timescales, with the end date being fixed due to room bookings – all work had to be completed within ten weeks of commissioning.

Sourcing materials The trellis and planter manufacturers Viridian wanted to work with could not deliver within the timeline as their order books were full, so Viridian prepared detailed construction drawings for the trellis and worked with Tendercare Nurseries’ landscapers for off site construction.

The planters, meanwhile, were manufactured by Alan Hayward.

REFERENCES Design Viridian Landscape Studio Anne Jennings

www.viridian.uk.com

Installation, screen construction and plants Tendercare Nurseries

www.tendercare.co.uk Iroko timber posts and slats, machined and cut to length Whitmore’s Timber

www.whitmores.co.uk Bespoke timber planters with integrated lockable castors Alan Hayward Joinery Ltd

www.alan-hayward.co.uk

Polystone planters – Poly Cubic 40cm The Pot Company

www.thepotco.com Wirework trellis panels and bespoke metal gate Garden Requisites

www.garden-requisites.co.uk Terracotta planters Yorkshire Flower Pots (Naylors)

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PASTURES NEW THE COTSWOLD GARDEN COMPANY The garden of an old Cotswold rectory is streamlined and updated, without losing any of its classic charm

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £95k Build time Four months Size of project 4,000m²

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he grounds of a beautiful Cotswold country house were transformed into an inviting space for a young family, with safe spaces for children and areas for dining and entertaining, as well as topiary, structured borders and an extended lawn. Despite the overhaul, it was important that a traditional feel was retained through beautiful planting, local materials and craftsmanship.

The brief The striking plans, from London-based garden designer Rachel Garrood, included several new terraces and pathways, a driveway, walls and seating areas, herbaceous borders, hedges and structural planting. The design required the complete demolition of the existing garden, as well as hard and soft landscaping, planting, and constructing several new spaces with clean lines and topiary.

The Cotswold Garden Company liaised with the designer throughout, and was able to share its expertise in sourcing local materials. The garden was to be used by the family for the duration of the construction, so it was vital that it remained safe for the children, with working areas safely cordoned off.

1 Sawn Yorkstone terrace, with box topiary and steel edged planting beds 2 The garden before and under construction with huge topiary arriving on site 3 Finely coursed Cotswold stone wall, Yorkstone cobble path and pleached crab apples 4 Bespoke oak gate and steel edged hoggin path 5 View of the front of the property

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Materials and build Attention to detail was key. Locally-quarried Cotswold stone for the wall was measured and sorted to ensure it was coursed with the smaller stones on top, and the 6mm thick mild steel edging that made up the path, lawn and driveway edges was welded on site by The Cotswold Garden Company. New terraces were created with sawn Yorkstone paving, each individual piece cut to size, while sawn Yorkstone cobbles were used for the paths to the pool, and reclaimed Yorkstone cobbles from a local manor house made up a seating area under the umbrella trees.

Sourcing locally, reclaiming and reusing materials was paramount, particularly because it helped to reduce the environmental impact of deliveries to the site.

All excavated soil was analysed in The Cotswold Garden Company’s on-site ‘soil hospital’ and was improved by adding compost and manure. This reduced the need for imported topsoil and disposal. Equally, existing stone and concrete was broken up and used as subbase where possible, while any debris taken off site was carefully stockpiled so that it could be recycled as clean aggregate or subsoil.

The Cotswold Garden Company used its local contacts to make sure specifications were perfect, including organising for its lighting supplier to do a night-time display to show how plants and trees could be lit, allowing the client to understand what was needed. The Cotswold Garden Company also designed and installed an automatic irrigation system and arranged for one of its suppliers to have bespoke oak gates made to the designer’s drawings.

In a rural setting with difficult access, local knowledge was essential. This was none more obvious than when two lorries delivering topiary from Holland arrived a week early and got stuck on the access road; The Cotswold Garden Company rapidly made arrangements with a local farmer to free and unload them.

Despite the access and delivery challenges, the project was delivered on schedule and in time for the client to showcase the impressive results at their annual summer garden party.

ABOUT THE COTSWOLD GARDEN COMPANY The Cotswold Garden Company is a multi-award-winning landscape contractor and garden designer with a reputation for outstanding work throughout the Cotswolds. It is one of the most experienced garden design and landscaping companies in the area, and the team a or ed on nu erou di erent ro ect ro cottage gardens and country houses to large estates and commercial commissions. www.thecotswoldgardencompany.co.uk

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REFERENCES Landscape contractor The Cotswold Garden Company

www.thecotswoldgardencompany.co.uk Garden designer Rachel Garrood, Rachel Garrood Garden and Landscape Design

07970 518 777

Cotswold stone and reclaimed stone Lichen Garden Antiques

www.lichengardenantiques.com Yorkstone paving and cobbles Bingley Stone

www.bingleystone.com Lighting and irrigation system LandscapePlus

www.landscapeplus.com Bespoke oak gates and steel edging G. L. C. & R. Williams

01666 505040 Plants

Genus Plant Sourcing Ltd

www.genusplantsourcing.co.uk Turf Rolawn

www.rolawn.co.uk Compost and manure Garden Supplies

www.gardensuppliesglos.co.uk

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POCKET ROCKET GARDEN CLUB LONDON An ambitious floating pocket park brings greenery to the Merchant Square development in Paddington Basin

Design With constraints of buoyancy, weight and weight distribution, high wind and varying water levels, and the existing biodiversity, the design evolved through several iterative processes. Existing elements, features and colours in the area also influenced the design to ensure the park would be cohesive with its surrounding environment.

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garden areas. This interlinking was achieved with bridges, so that the user would be conscious of being on water. The final design had a footprint of 729m2, consisting of a 689m² pontoon and a 40m2 independent planter. Covering around a third of the basin space, this size allowed Garden Club London to achieve the requirements of the brief while keeping the footprint proportionate to the body of water and ensuring freedom of movement for ducks and swans.

A series of bespoke galvanised steel sections sitting atop the modules provided a support base for the planters and surface treatment build-up. The custom nature of these sections enabled Garden Club London to form an overhang from the module edge; this helped to create a ‘shadow effect’ to hide the undesirable module aesthetic, and the additional height created a cavity of space for the running of service lines to Location water and power points.

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mplementation of the Merchant Square masterplan has seen a revival of a historically significant waterside area.

The 11-acre site now consists of six buildings, including 554 residential units and 58% commercial space, and is occupied by around 10,000 workers and residents.

The 2,050m2 body of water at the end of Paddington Basin offered little amenity to the surrounding developments. The client’s aspiration was to construct a floating pocket park that would provide a green space for people to meet, exercise, play, work and relax, as well as adding a softer landscape element to an area dominated by dark, hard surfaces. Further requirements were for the park to be ‘something to write home about’ and become known as an attraction.

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1 Open-edge decked areas promote water interaction 2 Prunus serrula var. tibetica among seasonal under plantings 3 Open grassed area 4 Soft urban vibe against the cityscape 5 An appealing view for residents

Design: July 2016 Public consultation: September 2016 Build completion: May 2017 Size of project 729m²

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THIS UNIQUE PROJECT WAS A HUGELY EXCITING CHALLENGE THAT DEMANDED COLLABORATION ACROSS SEVERAL DISCIPLINES. NOT ONLY IS IT A TRULY ‘ONE OF A KIND’ GARDEN FOR LONDON, BUT A HUGE RETHINK IN THE WAY WE CREATE PUBLIC SPACE IN URBAN AREAS Tony Woods

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range of colours and scents throughout the year. There is a combination of secluded planted areas for quiet reflection and relaxation, along with open spaces for events and larger crowds.

Areas of composite decking and high-quality artificial turf cater for a range of activities, such as events and exercise classes; the two materials offer an appealing contrast of texture and colour against the planting. The large decked area contains a trio of removable shade sails that provide seasonal coverage from the elements for events, and along the western and southern edges of this area there are two mooring points for pedestrian taxi boats and visiting trade barges. Power, water and drainage has also been made available for business barges and boats.

Composite decking boards, associated fascia and bullnose edging, as well as LED strip lighting, were used in the event space and open-edge water interaction areas. Enhanced grain boards were chosen for their crisp, natural wood aesthetic, non-slip all-weather surface and lightweight, low-maintenance nature.

High-quality artificial grass was specified, adhering to the desired aesthetic and to constraints of weight, use and maintenance.

Low-maintenance glass-reinforced plastic planters house the 213m² of planting, along with four steel planters that contain a series of bespoke 2.6m-high cantilevered steel L-sections. These sections add an element of vertical structure to the park, along with the four Tibetan cherry trees, and provide fixing points for shade sails and mounted spotlights. Seating comes in the form of standalone and floating sapele hardwood benches.

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The planting scheme was chosen to reflect the existing landscape; it adds depth of colour, texture and movement with a mixture of native plants, waterside favourites and specimens that can cope with the urban environment and exposure to wind and climate change – as well as attract birds and insects. An independent floating planter, inaccessible to the public, adds to the biodiversity by offering a sanctuary for wildlife.

A carefully thought out lighting scheme highlights the hard and soft elements of the park, and offers night use for the decked events area while minimising light pollution. The scheme involved installation of LED strip lighting to define decked edges and bench undersides, as well as plant uplighters and wall spots.

Challenges Acting as principal designer and principal contractor, Garden Club London was meticulous in its approach to this unique project.

The challenge of a build site on water, and the highly trafficked pedestrian area of Merchant Square Estate, meant consideration was required to determine site setup, build, and health and safety.

A site compound area was established away from the main site to ensure minimal disruption to the busy towpath areas adjacent to the basin, as well as providing space for welfare facilities, deliveries and storage. A smaller area was also established to

provide a solid groundworking area and storage for materials as they were transported to the water’s edge. The hazards of working near water saw Garden Club London implement the requirement for all contractors to have valid CSCS cards and appropriate PPE, with the addition of lifejackets.

Due to the highly trafficked tow path and general site access, Garden Club London faced restrictions on size of materials, movement times and load weights. This required the majority of materials to be assembled away from the build and then moved to the water’s edge outside of peak hours. Elements such as the 96 bespoke timber subframes were built in the site compound, transported to the basin edge and fixed to the pontoon as required.

Considering the tow path weight restrictions, heavier loads such as the 95t of topsoil were brought to site using traditional canal transport.

Not only did this save on manpower and countless trips through the estate, but it allowed these elements to be mechanically lifted directly into place. and eliminated the risk of traffic congestion.

ABOUT GARDEN CLUB LONDON Garden Club London was established by Tony Woods in 2012 and is now a fast-growing design and build company with big ideas, passion and vision.

Working in-house and collaborating with other industry professionals, Garden Club London has a ro in re utation or fir t cla ro ect bot domestic and commercial.. www.gardenclublondon.co.uk

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1 Shaded event space with power, lighting and free WiFi 2 A narrow-decked walkway connects the two spaces and reinforces the park’s floating nature 3 L-R: Nick Lie (project manager), Tony Woods (design director), Ben Dewhirst (project landscape architect) 4 Paddington Basin before

REFERENCES Principal designer and contractor

Planters, benches, GRP fender and cantilevered steel sections

Garden Club London

Europlanters

Pontoon modules

Lighting

Northern Pontoon

Collingwood

www.gardenclublondon.co.uk

www.northernpontoon.com Bespoke steel sections and entrance totem MKM Creations

www.mkmcreations.co.uk Timber Acre Lane

www.acrelanetimber.co.uk Artificial lawn

www.europlanters.com

www.collingwoodlighting.com/en Aurora

gb.auroralighting.com/Home.aspx Electrical install MJ Electrical Services Ltd

www.mjelectricalservices.co.uk Shade sails Kemp Sails (Shade Solutions)

www.shade-solutions.com/ information/fabrics

Namgrass

www.namgrass.co.uk Composite decking Millboard

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ARTSCAPE DESIGN & BUILD LTD Soft planting and secluded spaces for an enchanting riverside garden in Berkshire

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £16k Build time Three months Size of project 150m²

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he owners of this attractive riverside property in Berkshire appointed Artscape Design & Build Ltd to improve their existing garden. The client’s brief included the provision of an area close to the river where they could dine, socialise and relax, enjoying views across the water. They were also keen for the design to include a good range of interesting plants.

Design and build Artscape Design & Build Ltd created two such dining and entertainment spaces, interlinked by a series of paths and an eye-catching boardwalk.

The first dining area is located on the upper terrace, close to the kitchen and conservatory, and was constructed using travertine paving to

match the conservatory floor. This ensures that the interior feels connected to the garden.

An access path was provided adjacent to the dining area, linking it to the conservatory and the side of the property, where it leads to the front garden. The paths were made using stepping stones set on gravel, and were edged with lavender and box hedging for both aesthetic and safety reasons.

From here, steps with a handrail and a composite material boardwalk draw you through the garden and towards the river, where the owners moor their boat. Creamy composite decking boards were chosen to work in harmony with the upper travertine paved terrace and cream coloured gravel, complementing the garden’s overall palette of soft, neutral tones.

1 An area for relaxing and socialising 2 Pastel planting with accents of hot colours 3 A path of Cotswold gravel with travertine stepping stones and lavender 4 Direction changes in the boardwalk 5 Seating to rest and enjoy the garden

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Weaving through the planting, the boardwalk leads to a second seating area constructed close to the water’s edge, where views up and down the river can be enjoyed from comfortable sofas. Subtle lighting was also installed between the house and the mooring, allowing the clients to enjoy their garden late into the evening; a bench, located just off the boardwalk, was included to offer pleasant views from a slightly shadier part of the garden. Given the garden’s proximity to the river, all decking in the design had to be well anchored, as the area is occasionally prone to flooding.

Artscape Design & Build Ltd reused as many of the client’s existing plants as possible, and complemented their soft tones with additional pastel-coloured planting – dotted with a few hot accent colours throughout. Planting was kept fairly low so as not to obstruct views of the river, but it has an ethereal feel with plenty of movement. All of the plants were carefully chosen to deliver year-round interest, with formal, clipped box balls adding structure.

ABOUT ARTSCAPE DESIGN & BUILD LTD

1 Path of Cotswold gravel with stepping stones 2 An area for enjoying views of the river 3 Construction of the subframe for the deck 4 Ready for the border preparation

Artscape Design & Build Ltd, founded in 1979, is a multi-award-winning company that is based in Berkshire and undertakes projects in t e o e countie erin a ro e ional ervice Artscape aims to bring knowledge, experience and creativity to it ro ect en urin or i co leted to the highest standard.

www.art-scape.co.uk

REFERENCES Landscape design and build Artscape Design & Build Ltd

www.art-scape.co.uk Decking (limed oak)

The Millboard Company

www.millboard.co.uk Paving (travertine) London Stone

www.londonstone.co.uk Cotswold chip Country Supplies Ltd

www.countrysupplies.uk.com Plants Farnham Common Nurseries

www.fcn.co.uk

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £29.5k Build time 10 days (Harrogate) 12 days (Dishforth) Size of project 220m² (Harrogate) 415m² (Dishforth)

A HOMECOMING PRAYER NORTHUMBRIAN LANDSCAPING A Japanese Zen-inspired garden brings a place for quiet reflection to the Harrogate Flower Shows

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Design and build The design was created to fit the space where the garden would eventually be constructed at Dishforth Airfield. As requested, it was split into three separate areas, each serving a distinct purpose. The section Northumbrian Landscaping took to the Harrogate Spring Flower Show is the area intended to provide a secluded place for reflection. At the request of the Corps, the garden was designed with a Japanese Zen feel and includes a prayer house and seating area. It offers the perfect place for thought and meditation, surrounded by calming scents and the sound of rippling water.

Design features The garden was designed with a circular theme, reflecting the Japanese regard for the moon and its inclusion in many Japanese garden designs.

All entrance and exit points are hidden, to suggest the feeling of being completely enclosed, and this ‘hidden door’ concept was also used for the cedar-clad prayer house.

The centre of the garden, viewed from the prayer house, is uncluttered to allow for quiet contemplation. This space is also a sensory area, and includes a line of lavender to provide

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scent and a water rill to create reflections and light; rustling bamboo envelopes the prayer house, adding a light acoustic element.

Looking out from the prayer house, the visitor’s vision is directed via the rill to a mountain scene.

Here, a lantern-like building, sculptured rocks and small conifers create a point of focus. From there, the garden opens out: planting is wrapped around two paths that parallel the perimeter from the entrance to the prayer house. One is a charred timber boardwalk that zigzags to meet the prayer house floor. The other winds through boulders and planting and over stepping stones, creating a circular journey around the edge of the garden.

The build was completed in nine days using weighty materials. Each upright for the prayer house was formed from 300x300mm, 3.5m long timbers, weighing nearly a tonne each. Some of the boulders, hand-picked from Johnsons Wellfield Quarry in Huddersfield, also weighed over a tonne, and were placed using rollers and sandpits. The fence uprights were pre-machined by the Veterans Woodcraft team to ensure a speedier build.

Materials All the materials for the project were generously sponsored by willing suppliers — many from a

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REFERENCES Design and build Northumbrian Landscapes

www.northumbrianlandscaping.co.uk Boulders and sculptural stone Johnsons Wellfield

solid crew of BALI members. The planting largely came from Wilkinson Landscapes, and the key features within the garden were lent by Northumbrian Landscaping, including the stone bench, lantern, granite bowl and water feature, and also some specimen planting from Peter Cunliffe’s own garden.

Special requirements and difficulties Northumbrian Landscaping was initially told to design for a £50k build, and it was thought that the garden would be entered into the RHS Tatton Flower Show in July 2017. Unfortunately, fundraising did not take off, so there was no budget outside of materials already obtained through sponsorship. The team was generously offered a grant from the North East Horticultural Society – on the proviso that the garden was built at the Harrogate Flower Shows. This provided

half the finance necessary, but meant Northumbrian Landscaping had five weeks’ notice before the build, rather than five months.

The following two weeks were incredibly fraught, with the team trying to gather the remaining sponsorship and materials needed; the garden ultimately depended on more money being raised during the show and via subsequent charity events.

1 At Home in Dishforth

www.johnsons-wellfield.co.uk Cedar timber Silva Timber

www.silvatimber.co.uk Boardwalk and prayer house timber Percy A Hudson

www.percyahudson.co.uk Fencing supplies Green-tech

www.green-tech.co.uk Plants Wilkinsons Landscapes

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www.wilkinsonslandscapes.co.uk

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Bamboo UK

5 Burnt timber boardwalk

www.ukbamboo.com

6 A place for reflection

Sedum matting

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Lindum

8 Mini mountain-scape 9 The vision and 3D model

www.turf.co.uk Stone bench, lantern, granite bowl and water feature On loan from Northumbrian Landscapes

ABOUT NORTHUMBRIAN LANDSCAPES Northumbrian Landscaping Ltd. is an awardwinning landscape design and build company based in Northern England. It runs an experienced and disciplined team, adopts the latest technology to drive the landscape industry, and is actively involved with community projects. www.northumbrianlandscaping.co.uk

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Symmetrical planting and swept gravel bring a sense of stateliness to the neglected garden of a large family home on the Thames

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his large family home has a 1.5-acre L-shaped garden with a frontage on the River Thames. The garden had not been touched for 30 years – it was overgrown, and had challenging levels. The clients are keen gardeners and were looking for a design that would allow them to enjoy working in the garden, though maintenance teams would come in to do some of the heavy work such as tying in and training the pleached hedges, pruning the yew sentinels and rejuvenating the box hedges that flank the path along the pool.

Design There were lots of challenges that the client wanted the garden design to resolve. The house is accessed by a long drive and the parking area is overlooked from the main sitting room; cgd landscape design enlarged this space so that the cars would be out of sight when parked. It also incorporated a pleached hedge to screen the parking area from the double borders in the main garden.

From the car park down to the beginning of the ‘L’, the levels were uneven, and sloped in two directions. cgd moved earth around and used a sleeper retaining wall in front of the existing boundary hornbeam hedge, to create two mixed borders with a generous lawn down the middle.

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The terraced area outside the house’s main door was rather small and had been raised, which meant it caught the wind and weather from the river. cgd’s design ensured that the new terrace reflected the scale of the house and was protected from prevailing winds. The area was punctuated with three brick raised beds, each with a central wisteria trained into a parasol shape. Most of the planting was completed in January 2017, and for the first spring they managed to plant tulips so that the planters looked very floriferous before the rose beds came to life in their first summer.

The original grounds included a tired rose garden, which was difficult to maintain, along with an old herbaceous border in front of a high brick boundary wall. The new design recreated the rose garden with nine interlocking square beds, each with an Egyptian yew pyramid or obelisk in the centre to echo the two sentinel yews that flank the views down to the pool and orchard. The beds were defined with Corten steel edging and surrounded by Breedon gravel paths – much easier to maintain than the original grass. The area was also enlarged to be more in proportion with the 122 PORTFOLIO 2017 / Pro Landscaper

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house façade, and created vistas down to the rest of the garden.

A low retaining wall with steps down from the terrace and rose garden under the pleached hedge lead one through to mixed borders, planted with trees, shrubs and perennials for all year round interest. The hornbeam trees were pleached on site, and the frames will be removed in their second or third year, once the branches are self-supporting.

Build cgd worked with Landscape Associates throughout the construction. The quality and

attention to detail shown by the contractors was exemplary, and much appreciated by both designers and clients alike. cgd specified all the materials used in the hard landscaping, and Landscape Associates always made samples available for approval in good time.

The car park, laid with Breedon gravel, was the last area to be finished. Extra design details were added in along the way, including redesigning the front entrance with new paving steps and planters. The contractors were very flexible in adding this to the original schedule Special requirements The garden had flooded many times, so this informed the design — although it will mainly affect phase two of the project. The client www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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REFERENCES Design cgd landscape design

www.cgd-landscape-design.com Contractors Landscape Associates

www.landscapeassociates.co.uk Arboricultural services Peter Holloway of Rootcause

Plants — including wisteria Nederhoff Nurseries

www.nederhoffplant.nl/en Plants — including some of the yew North Hill Nurseries

www.northhillnurseries.co.uk Pleached hornbeam Ruskins

www.ruskins.co.uk Stone Bingley Stone

www.bingleystone.com

ABOUT CGD LANDSCAPE DESIGN cgd landscape design brings together two of the UK’s top garden designers, Helen Billetop and Sally Court; its gardens range from the cutting edge to the more traditional.

Continuously seeking innovative concepts, materials and solutions, cgd always surprises and delights. Its portfolio includes work in the UK and abroad, including the prestigious SGD 2013 International Award for a garden in Moscow. www.cgd-landscape-design.com

Challenges Before any landscaping works were started, Landscape Associates worked very closely with the designers and the clients to chip away at the costs and come up with creative design solutions that were feasible within the budget.

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Room in the Garden

www.roominthegarden.com Corten steel edging PSL Paneltech Systems Ltd

www.steelforgardens.co.uk

Fencing (post and wire/boundary) RB Fencing Ltd

www.rbfencingltd.co.uk Planters (front entrance) Atelier Vierkant

www.ateliervierkant.com

1 View to house from corner of rose garden 2 View back to the house from box lined path 3 Rose garden with interlocking beds edged with corten steel echoed by rusted iron obelisk frames 4 Pleached hedge between rose garden and herbaceous borders 5 Double herbaceous borders with structure from Amalanchier trees 6 Contemporary hand crafted clay planters from Belgium with Buxus cushions 7 View from rose garden to parking area ©Simon Nobes PanoScope Ltd 8 Box lined path to house

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needed two new sheds and compost bins, which were located in the other parts of the garden. The garden had also been accessed by people thinking it was part of the towpath, so the design required a boundary fence along the bottom of the garden and new post and wire fencing across the frontage with the river.

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RAISING HOPE HULTONS LANDSCAPES Beneath the raised structure of the Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Oldham Hospital, a unique sensory space for those affected by cancer

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aggie’s cancer charity was founded by the late Maggie Keswick Jencks and her husband Charles Jencks, to support both people living with cancer and their family and friends. So far, 19 centres have been built across the UK; anyone living with cancer can stop by for advice or support. The centre at the Royal Oldham Hospital, designed by dRMM was opened on 9 June this year.

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £120k Build time Six weeks Size of project 450m²

1 Light filters through the building’s central aperture ©Alex de Rijke 2 A Betula pendula szechuanica grows up through the central aperture ©Alex de Rijke 3 Supported by six columns, the building is accessed via stairs ©Alex de Rijke 4 The project had to be carried out with extreme care, as there were only seven metres from the ground to the underside of the building ©Jasmin Sohi

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Design Supported by six columns, the building floats above a garden filled with trees, and is accessed via a bridge and staircase. A tree grows up through the building from a central oasis to bring nature inside, and a balcony stretches across the south side of the centre, providing an outdoor seating area. To the north, a horizontal window wraps around the façade.

New trees frame the building, forming a wood that provides privacy and a strong connection to the seasons, with leaves turning from green to gold and then revealing a filigree of twigs and white trunks in winter.

The building takes in views that reach over the rooftops of Oldham, towards the Pennines.

Visitors can stand and watch the weather move across the wider landscape, observing how the city turns to farmland, then to mixed forest, rising up the flanks of the great ridge.

The garden is framed by enclosing walls, with the building floating above acting like a drop curtain to create a ‘picture window’ effect.

Structural trees fill the volume of the space and are accompanied by woodland plants that weave between white birch trees and the crispy bark of pine trunks. Layered drifts of woodland

planting add depth and create the impression of having colonised the space naturally. Many native plants have been used, but with a cultivated twist, such as the copper variety of common hazelnut, Corylus ‘Purpurea’, and the dogwood Cornus ‘China Girl’, which has beautiful white flowers.

The woodland has been created with the future in mind, so it has longevity and a purpose.

The birch trees have been planted at various maturities, and this successional approach will mean that they evolve over many years and always have a presence at the centre.

Beneath the footprint of the building, different grades of raked gravel indicate paths without dictating them. Embedded rocks emerge from the planting, with Pittosporum tobira ‘Nanum’ mounding over them; meanwhile, a carpet of Soleirolia soleirolii has been encouraged to grow into the marginal spaces under the building.

A striking quality of light is created by the building raised above. Indirect light filters down the outline of its edges, and swathes of shuttlecock ferns capture the glow in their fronds – which are in turn highlighted against a backdrop of evergreen Nandina, Sarcococca and creeping Hydrangea seemannii. Light falls through the building’s central aperture, illuminating a single multi-stemmed Betula pendula szechuanica.

Nestled within the grassy mound, a water bowl creates a point of light that further draws people into the space, while a second spills over with rainwater from the roof.

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chance to get involved, perhaps helping to make fresh organic tomato soup for lunch.

Sourcing materials Heavy-duty trees were handpicked at Hilliers Nursery by the architect, dRMM’s Alex de Rijke.

All small root ball trees, container shrubs and specimen plants were chosen during a visit to Johnsons of Whixley by landscape construction manager Jon Jarvis of Hultons Landscapes, garden designer Rupert Muldoon, and dRMM project architect Jasmin Sohi. Aggregate was specially sourced Welsh stone, while cobbles came from a quarry in North Wales.

Special requirements The centre was built on the site of the hospital’s old mortuary, with many of the surrounding walls forming part of the original landscape, so care and thoughtful planning had to be taken. The new herb terrace was part of the original mortuary building; it not only provides a

panoramic view and a tranquil suntrap, but is also an integral part of the hospital, as it retains the road above. The wall constructed for the new greenhouse was built from original stone found on-site – it had previously formed part of the hospital wall, built around 1870.

The planting scheme, designed by Rupert Muldoon, was continually adapted during its six-week journey. It included input from the Hultons management and site staff, giving everyone involved in the build a personal feeling of being part of the design. dRMM’s project brief was ‘ruin’. The stones and boulders that emerge from the ground had to feel as though they had naturally exposed their colour and shape over time, along with the Soleirolia soleirolii and Thymus serpyllum that gradually wrap around them.

Challenges One of the biggest challenges was space: working underneath the canopy of the building, with only seven metres from the subbase to the underside of the polished ceiling, and using only small plant and equipment. Any mistake that damaged the outer cladding of the building would have a devastating impact in terms of completing the project on time.

The Betula pendula ‘Zwisters Glory’ that line the outside of the building soar 12m tall, while the Betula szechuanica expands through the space in the middle of the building, reaching 15m. With a span of five metres, the latter was the biggest challenge of all, and had to be

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ABOUT HULTONS LANDSCAPES Established in 1968, Hultons provides fully integrated landscaping solutions – from design concepts, to landscape construction and grounds maintenance projects. Based in Cheshire, it serves the North West, Midlands and South Yorkshire, and is in easy reach of a number of major cities. www.hultonslandscapes.com

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positioned fully open as, once in place, there was no access to the ties. The installation utilised eight operatives and took three hours to complete.

The water bowl, included to utilise the rainwater pipe running from the building’s roof onto the garden, overflowed with such force that the planted embankment began to wash away within minutes – not the gentle overflow that was expected. After some careful planning and on-site design, construction manager Jon Jarvis and site engineer Joe Eckersley designed an additional water bowl to sit buried under the decorative one.

The revised model carried excess water away into the main drain on the other side of the site, without compromising the visual effect and soft water overflow that was originally designed.

Planting Species such as Dryopteris filix-mas provide an earthy greenery, while Pittosporum tobira ‘Nanum’ emerges from behind boulders, its waxy leaves in the shadow of unusual Nandina domestica, Amelanchier lamarckii and feathered Betula pendula. Creeping through the planting are Euphorbia mellifera, Pachysandra terminalis, Sarcococca hookeriana, and Heuchera ‘Caramel’, with white colourbursts from Cornus ‘China Girl’, Trachelospermum jasminoides and Iris ‘White Swan’ providing a contrast to the planting.

The sun terrace is enveloped by large handmade pots that are filled with herbs and fruits, from Malus ‘John Downie’ and Prunus persica to the fragrant Lavandula ‘Munstead’, Rosmarinus officinalis, Mentha longifolia and oregano. On a sunny day, the centre’s staff and visitors often indulge in homemade verbena and mint tea, picked from the terrace.

The Welsh cobbles form an enticing path, leading staff and visitors from the sun terrace, down through the greenery and old walls and under the garden’s canopy. It is here that the garden opens up, guiding people down the path, around the raised Betula szechuanica and past the reflection of another water bowl that catches light from the void through the middle of the building. Here, the greenhouse is partially covered by two Pinus nigra that form a cover for the petite Liriodendron tulipifera, hiding the backdrop of the hospital. The greenhouse is planted with tomatoes, runner beans, iceberg lettuce and peas, all donated by the centre’s visitors and staff. www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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DURING

1 Raked gravel indicates different paths beneath the building ©Jasmin Sohi

REFERENCES Garden landscape construction

Tulip tree

Jon Jarvis, Hultons Landscapes

Specimen Trees

Landscape design

Greenhouse plants

dRMM & Rupert Muldoon

www.pottedandplanted.com

Donated by the staff and visitors of the Maggie’s Centre

Main contractor

Large handmade pots

F Parkinson Ltd

Pots to Inspire, Woodside Garden Centre

www.hultonslandscapes.com

www.fparkinson.co.uk Architecture Alex de Rijke, dRMM

www.drmm.co.uk Plants Large trees Hilliers Nursey

www.hillier.co.uk

2 Maggie’s is named in honour of the late Maggie Keswick Jencks

www.specimentrees.net

www.woodsidegardencentre.co.uk

4 A balcony along the south side of the building provides a tranquil place to sit outside ©Alex de Rijke

Plant and machinery A Plant Hire

www.aplant.com MOT and base materials AGS (Advanced Ground Supplies)

www.advancedgroundwork.com

Small root ball trees, container shrubs and specimen plants

Welsh cobbles, compost and bark mulch

Johnsons of Whixley

www.green-tech.co.uk

www.nurserymen.co.uk

3 A water bowl creates a point of light, drawing people into the space

Green–tech

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DIVIDE AND CONQUER VARA GARDEN DESIGN A domestic garden is dramatically transformed into a selection of entertaining spaces

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he client approached VaRa Garden Design after they had been impressed with its show garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2015. Having finished decorating the interior of the house, they wanted a fresh contemporary feel for their garden. The brief was to design a relatively low maintenance garden that would allow easy access from the house, increasing the amount of hard landscaping throughout. The client also wanted the design to include changes of level that incorporated a water feature.

Design and build The existing west-facing garden was on a wide plot, with good privacy on all sides but little usable space for entertaining on its narrow patio.

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and garden shed were to remain on the left, and the fence was in good order, so was painted to provide a better backdrop for the new planting and pots.

The design needed to lift and increase the patio area while reducing the size of the lawn area, incorporating raised beds and changes of level with access steps. The planting was key; the garden could be viewed from most of the downstairs living space at all times, so it needed to provide year-round structure, colour and interest for wildlife, and link the different areas of the new design.

The challenge for VaRa Garden Design was to keep the look of the garden contemporary, while making it a welcoming and inviting space.

Materials were suggested and samples ordered so that everything could be viewed together with the owners, to see how it would work in the scheme. A blue-grey granite was the clients’ favourite option for the patio and steps, softened by the use of wooden sleepers for the

raised beds, floating bench and step risers.

A 20mm pea shingle with larger complementary pebbles was used not only for the gravel area at the bottom of the garden, but also as a border to the lawn, helping to link the different parts of the garden together. The chosen colour of the render for the water feature provided a lovely foil for the plants, and was a lighter shade of the colour used for the fences.

In terms of the ground design, the garden was divided and levelled into three sections that were connected by wide generous steps, angled on opposite sides of the middle terrace.

The patio level was extended in depth, and the first wraparound planting bed was kept at this height, too. Grasses, structural green cubes and evergreen planting for constant interest were echoed in planting beds throughout the garden.

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £35k Build time Three months

square pool was created, feeding into a lower L-shaped pool via a wide copper spout that was designed by the clients themselves.

The second level was laid up to a small lawn with paved stepping stones leading off from the main steps, hugged on opposite sides by a retaining sleeper wall and a rendered water feature wall. Both walls offer seating opportunities for enjoying this area of the garden, with further interest at this level coming from a beautifully lit corten steel sculpture.

Stepping stones laid into the gravel lead to a smaller courtyard, providing an alternative sunny or shady spot to the main patio seating

Images ©Keith Truman / VaRa Garden Design

Size of project 196m²

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area, depending on the ABOUT VARA GARDEN DESIGN time of day. Trees, large VaRa Garden Design is a pots and planting in the collaboration between gravel together add ane a oc and ac el ococ o e fir t arden height, interest and together won a Silver-Gilt medal at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2015. They enjoy working scale to this lower area. closely with the client to ensure the brief is Planting throughout i le ented o erin creative olution ile mixes structural maintaining good design principles. elements with seasonal www.varagardendesign.co.uk ‘pops’ of colour. There are warm pinks and burgundies, with lime greens providing contrast. Sunny and shady areas of the garden are linked by similar styles, colours and textures, while predominantly evergreen climbers soften all the vertical boundaries around the garden.

At the end of the whole process, the clients commented: “We have been very impressed throughout the design process with your attention to detail and enthusiastic, imaginative ideas, while always bearing in mind our opinions and the available budget. We are thrilled with the new garden you have designed for us, and have thoroughly enjoyed our collaboration over these months.”

BEFORE

DURING REFERENCES Design and planting

Copper spout

VaRa Garden Design

Designed by client

Build Rococo Landscaping & Building

www.rococo-uk.com

Patio and stepping stones (Blue-Grey Granite) London Stone

Pots The Pot Company

www.thepotco.com Sculpture John Lewis

www.johnlewis.com

www.londonstone.co.uk

Fence paint (exterior paint for wood in ‘Anthracite’)

Gravel and pebbles

Dulux

Ridgeons

www.ridgeons.co.uk Softwood sleepers, render, plastering sand, cement, lime, SBR and beads H Butterfield Ltd

www.hbutterfield.co.uk Plants Provender Nurseries

www.dulux.co.uk Trellis Ridgeons Timber & Builders Merchant

www.ridgeons.co.uk Turf George Davis Turf

www.georgedaviesturf.co.uk

www.provendernurseries.co.uk

Lighting

Rochfords

Chris Wells, UCS Electrical

www.rochfords.net

sparkychris@live.com

Trees (multi-stemmed Amelanchier and Sorbus aucuparia standard)

Irrigation

Barchams

www.barcham.co.uk

Images ©Keith Truman

www.varagardendesign.co.uk

Client installed

Tables and seating Client’s own

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value Under £80k

VIOLET’S GARDEN

Build time Three weeks Size of project 550m2

WARWICK TAYLOR LANDCAPES A memorial to lost children, Warwick Taylor Landscapes designed and built this Staffordshire garden in remembrance of five-year-old Violet Mornington

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here are times when a landscaping project touches the hearts and souls of everyone involved so deeply that the story just has to be shared. This is one such project.

Violet Mornington passed away after a short illness aged just five years and two months. She began feeling poorly on her fifth birthday and, after enduring a plethora of medical procedures, was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. Bereft and unable to find a fitting memorial in the area, Violet’s parents, Ivan and Kerry, obtained permission to build a garden of www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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remembrance in their local cemetery, Lichfield and District Crematorium in Fradley. With the support of family, friends and the community they created the charity Violets in Bloom, and spent the next two and a half years organising activities and events to raise over £80k.

Work on the garden began in May 2016, but it soon became clear that the brief was not being met. To the family’s distress, the project was abandoned and the money seemed lost.

However, in late 2016, Dignity plc took over the management of the cemetery and the Morningtons’ financial losses were recouped.

Time to begin again.

Design and build In March 2017, Warwick Taylor Landscapes was commissioned to design and build a memorial garden for Violet and others who had been taken too soon. It was to be a place where quiet contemplation merged with carefree playfulness, and somewhere adults and children alike would feel comfortable and could remember and pay tribute to their loved ones.

As father to two young daughters, director Chris Taylor and his team at Warwick Taylor worked closely with the family to bring to life a garden that reflected Violet’s personality, and celebrated her short but joyful life. Ivan, Violet’s dad, had some ideas of his own, and Chris ensured these were incorporated into the design.

Work began on the garden in May, once designs had been approved by Violets in Bloom and Dignity plc, and a completion date was set for 3 June – what would have been Violet’s ninth birthday. In just three weeks, Warwick Taylor undertook all groundworks, hard and soft landscaping, and installation of play equipment, bespoke art installations and memorials.

The design features a tunnelled walkway that leads visitors into the garden, where a specially commissioned granite statue of Violet, depicted as a superhero, is located. Mature yew hedges divide the garden into smaller ‘rooms’, with living green walls to create a feeling of security and safety. Archways lead from one zone to another, enticing visitors to explore the garden without creating a feeling of sensory overload.

Carefully planted zones offer seating and private areas for contemplation, while other parts of the garden feature lawns for picnicking and play.

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Naturally, the planting is predominantly violet in colour; restful and soothing, it is also attractive to butterflies. Varied textures, scents, flowers and foliage offer seasonal interest, while taller trees provide shade and lend a feeling of strength, longevity and permanence.

The art installations were commissioned by the family, and are reminiscent of Violet and all children who will remain forever young. The whole garden is child friendly, easy to access with wheelchairs or buggies, and designed to be used all year round. It is the perfect blend of grief and celebration, just as the family had pictured it.

The family are delighted with the results, and an unofficial opening on Violet’s ninth birthday proved to be a poignant but joyful event.

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REFERENCES Design and build Warwick Taylor Landscapes

www.warwick-group.co.uk/warwick-taylor-landscapes Plants Tamar Nurseries Ltd

www.tamarnurseries.com Trees and hedges

Deepdale Trees Ltd

www.deepdale-trees.co.uk Turf and wild flower matting (Meadowmat Wild Flower Matting) Harrowden Turf Ltd

www.harrowdenturf.co.uk Planting accessories Green-tech Ltd

www.green-tech.co.uk Aggregates Breedon Special Aggregates Ltd

www.breedon-special-aggregates.co.uk Decorative stone

CED Ltd

www.ced.ltd.uk Resin bound pathways StyleSeal

www.styleseal.co.uk Timber archways Buildbase

www.buildbase.co.uk

BEFORE/DURING ABOUT WARWICK TAYLOR LANDSCAPES Warwick Taylor Landscapes is a diverse business operating across a wide range of sectors, including, commercial, residential, public sector, retail and leisure. Its strength lies in talented and motivated people, and consistently outstanding service, quality and workmanship. www.warwick-group.co.uk/ warwick-taylor-landscapes

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THE LEISURE PRINCIPLE STRATA DESIGN ASSOCIATES Nature meets retail at Rushden Lakes, a pioneering shopping and leisure scheme in Northamptonshire

PROJECT DETAILS Project value ÂŁ50m (phase 1) Build time Phase 1: Three years Future phases due to commence autumn 2017 Size of project 230,000ft2 (phase 1); 400,000ft2 (future phases)

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he client sought a high quality external environment that captured the history and natural beauty of this genuinely unique site, while creating a vibrant atmosphere that encouraged visitors to shop, eat and explore.

Background Rushden Lakes is a shopping and leisure scheme that opened in summer 2017 (phase 1). Situated in the Nene Valley, Northamptonshire, the site combines shopping and eating with opportunities for outdoor activities, such as canoeing, birdwatching and cycling.

Comprising 230,000ft2 of new retail and restaurant accommodation (phase 1), the former gravel extraction site includes a lake and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) wetland which is home to 20,000 migrating birds, a boathouse and boardwalk with al fresco waterside dining, a wet play area, a central water feature and rill. Up to 5m people are expected to flock to the scheme in the first year.

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Design A significant amount of external space and investment is devoted to public areas, to enhance the customer experience. Fluid tessellated paving provides flow and energy, while a wide timber boardwalk with precast stone furniture delivers a point for lakeside views and external dining. A brushed stainless steel balustrade wraps around the boardwalk edge, emphasising the landscape’s curves.

A central boulevard connects the boardwalk to the retail frontages, including a 54m long rill that follows the site’s fall towards the boardwalk and lake, helping to connect the different spaces. For practicality, the precast rill units were derived from a single standard radiused mould, reversed to create the opposing curves.

The edges of the boulevard are formed in corten planters with cantilevered seating, providing a durable, contemporary aesthetic.

Additional seating planters are formed with modular precast units that double up as the base for the raised water table that feeds the rill. Precast benches also form part of the secure line to the shop fronts, reducing the number of security bollards required.

A wet play area merges into the lakeside, enabling people to engage with the lake in a controlled way. Jets, fountains and misting nozzles create a playful space away from the bustle of the retail zones.

Adjoining the visitor centre and boathouse is a woodland walk and sculpture trail, with viewing platforms that allow people to enjoy a stroll without disturbing the wildlife. While robust ornamentals have been installed in the car park areas, naturalistic planting is used around the lake, including native reed planting to encourage habitat creation. Nature-inspired sculptures pop up through apertures in the boardwalk, animating the space.

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key. Construction activity was constrained during the bird nesting season, and finding a suitable surface for the boardwalk at the right price point took some time. Achieving a suitable boardwalk structure that didn’t compromise the flood compensation requirements was also an interesting exercise for the engineers.

Another challenging aspect was delivering a paving pattern that reflected the clients’ requirements for a unique treatment in an achievable way. This was overcome by employing standard concrete blocks, but placing them in a repeating tessellating pattern.

Each block was set out within standard 6m x 4m panels, repeated to form the pattern.

Phase 1 of this project has delivered an inviting and vibrant retail space that sensitively meshes with the surrounding environment.

“Rushden Lakes sets a benchmark for sustainable and experiential retail development,” says Richard Willmott of Strata Design. “The focus has been on delivering high quality experiences and spaces that encourage people to explore the area, rather than a typical

inward-looking development. The lakeside location has also significantly enhanced public access to the nature reserves.”

1 Sinuous curved balustrade, a nod to the site’s industrial past © Martin Gardner, martingardner.com 2 Boardwalk aperture © Martin Gardner 3 Raised water table feeding rill © Martin Gardner 4 Trio of timber seats on boardwalk © Martin Gardner 5 Pebble seating along lakeside © Martin Gardner 6 Visitors relax in central boulevard © The Crown Estate / Rushden Lakes 7 Meandering rill © Martin Gardner 8 Corten planters with integral seating © Martin Gardner 9 Nature takes centre stage © The Crown Estate / Rushden Lakes

ABOUT STRATA DESIGN ASSOCIATES Strata Design Associates is a UK-based landscape architecture and urbanism practice delivering usable, engaging and resilient spaces based on empathy for people and places.

Established by Richard Willmott following his successful implementation of phase 1 of the Rushden Lakes scheme, the company is now taking forward future phases of the scheme. www.strata-design.co.uk

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REFERENCES Project landscape architect Richard Willmott

www.strata-design.co.uk Main contractor Winvic

www.winvic.co.uk Tessellated paving (Charcon) Aggregate Industries

www.aggregate.com Boardwalk timber Marley Eternit

www.marleyeternit.co.uk Boardwalk steelwork Caunton Engineering

www.caunton.co.uk

BEFORE/DURING

Stainless balustrade and metal work Oakley

www.theoakleygroup.com Corten edging (to central boulevard) Kinley

www.kinley.co.uk Bespoke pre-cast furniture

Bespoke boardwalk benches and retail frontage precast benches Marshalls

www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial Bespoke bins, benches and seating boulders Land-Mark Landscaping Systems

www.landmarkwales.com

Wet play equipment and consultancy Ustigate

www.ustigate.co.uk Lighting Holophane

www.holophane.co.uk Trees Barchams

www.barchampro.co.uk Wildflower Turf Wildflower Turf

www.wildflowerturf.co.uk Boardwalk sculptures Flights of Fantasy

www.flightsoffantasy.co.uk

Bailey Streetscene

www.baileystreetscene.co.uk

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PHOENIX RISING

PROJECT DETAILS

THE NATIONAL TRUST

Project value £500k Build time 2012-2017 Size of project 12 acres

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Extensive work on the garden at Standen House in West Sussex has seen it restored to its former glory

idden at the end of a quiet Sussex lane, with breathtaking views over the High Weald and Weir Wood Reservoir, Standen House was designed for James Beale and his family in the late 19th century by leading Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb and his friend William Morris, whose designs for wallpaper and fabric can be seen throughout the impressive property.

The 12-acre hillside garden was designed by Beale’s wife Margaret (1847-1936) and saw its heyday in the Twenties. Taking into account the advice of Philip Webb and local garden designer JB Simpson, Margaret Beale finalised the design, and in 1893 she began recording the

garden’s evolution in her garden notebook, with her first entry reading: “Took possession of Holly Bush Farm [Standen] in September 1890. The following spring of 1891 we planted the two upper plantations and started the kitchen garden, also the yew hedge.”

An accomplished gardener and plantswoman, Margaret was inspired by a world tour taken by the family in 1906-07.

Catalogues she kept from the Yoshino Garden in Tokyo, Japan, plus others from UK plant hunters, James Veitch & Sons, show her admiration for many of the new Japanese plants that were entering the UK. Margaret Beale became a Fellow of the RHS in 1894, and created a series of outdoor rooms www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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at Standen, including a scented rose garden called the Rosery and a lime tree walk, along with more exotic areas including bamboo, ponds and lush foliage.

Upon her death in 1936, her daughters Maggie and Helen remained at Standen and took over the running of the garden. They maintained it as best they could with a limited number of gardeners, until Helen Beale bequeathed it to the National Trust upon her death in 1972.

The restoration More than 10 years ago, a group of volunteers discovered the Beale family swimming pond while clearing out some overgrown bamboo in part of the garden. Following extensive research, the garden revival project began in 2012, and is www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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one of the biggest that the National Trust has ever undertaken.

James Masters, head gardener at Standen, explains: “In the latter part of the 20th century, Standen’s gardens saw alterations and replanting that covered or removed some of the original features. When I was first investigating the undergrowth in areas of the gardens, I realised there was much more than met the eye.

“Over the years, our discoveries have included lost walls, a rock garden, and rare and unusual plants, all overgrown by the vigorous modern planting that had masked the original beauty of Margaret Beale’s design.”

Through researching Margaret Beale’s garden and weather diaries, which she kept from 1890 to 1934, the team at Standen discovered that she had experimented with various plants in different situations, and noted how the weather affected them each year.

Further research of maps, old family photos, receipts and other documentary evidence enabled the team to piece together how the garden would have looked in its Twenties heyday. “We were lucky to have a wealth of archive material, which has enabled us to piece it together and bring the garden back to its best,” James tells us.

The £500k funding for the five-year restoration included generous legacies to the Trust for the purpose of garden projects and properties in Sussex. Among the features that have been restored are: • The original swimming pond and rose garden, growing Margaret Beale’s coveted pink China roses.

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• A fine oak trellis, rebuilt to the original design

by Philip Webb.

• Lime trees reinstated along Grandfather’s Walk.

• 10,000 tulips, including rare varieties.

• The kitchen garden, and original espaliered apple trees.

• New views opened from the top terrace across to the Ashdown Forest.

• New Arts and Crafts-inspired planting in the house courtyard.

• The medieval quarry face (which inspired the Beales to build Standen in that location) revealed alongside the drive.

“I look back at photographs from before we started the restoration to remind myself of the remarkable changes the team of staff and volunteers has made since then,” says James.

“We have worked so hard to do justice to this lovely lost garden and make it shine again, and I hope our visitors will enjoy discovering something new down every path and around each corner.”

ABOUT THE NATIONAL TRUST The National Trust is a charity founded in 1895 to preserve our heritage and open spaces. It looks after more than 250,000ha of countryside, 775 miles of coastline and hundreds of special places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has 4.5m members and 62,000 volunteers, and more than 20m people visit every year. www.nationaltrust.org.uk

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OF THE GARDEN Rosery The area to have seen the greatest transformation is the Rosery. It inspired the entire project, with the discovery of steps and a retaining wall around the swimming pond. With the formal rose garden, sundial, sweeping oak trellis and swimming pond all reinstated, it’s a tranquil spot to admire Margaret Beale’s roses.

Kitchen Garden The reinstatement of the Kitchen Garden has seen the installation of large beds of fruits and vegetables, plus cages for soft fruits. Four Bramley apple espalier trees, planted in the 1890s, still provide a plentiful crop every autumn. Bees have also been reintroduced.

Croquet lawn The summer house on the croquet lawn has been renovated, and many of the invasive laurels removed from the bank, revealing views of the house once more.

BEFORE

Grandfather’s Walk When James Beale became too frail to reach the upper areas of the garden, Grandfather’s Walk was cut into the slope and a shaded path was created with 13 limes; at the end, a summerhouse was built. The limes have been replanted, the stone walls repaired, and exuberant planting added around the trees’ bases.

House terrace The oak trellis was rebuilt by volunteers following Philip Webb’s original design, using old photographs for reference. The design reappears in the house’s William Morris wallpaper. A planting scheme follows Margaret Beale’s philosophy of experimenting with new plants.

Tulip Festival More than 10,000 tulips bloom on the terrace and around the garden in pots and borders every April-May. Quarry Garden The Quarry Garden is a tranquil corner that offers a shady retreat and an abundance of delicateplants that grow in the rock crevices. The rock from here was used to construct the house.

Rock Top Walk High up above the rocks is Rock Top Walk. A meandering path through the trees takes visitors to viewing platforms, where they can look across to the Weald and down onto the chimneys and stable yard.

Offering a welcome pause for visitors and a wealth of craftsmanship, the artwork ‘Bothy’ is a small folly-like space built by designer and maker Will Shannon.

Sandstone rock As you drive into Standen, the outcrop of Ardingly sandstone rocks are visible again, which inspired the Beale family to build the house there.

Goose Green Goose Green has been kept rural to reflect its original farmyard purpose. New planting in the cottage garden, new wall supports for the pear trees, and children’s games sets make it a charming and welcoming space.

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1 Goose Green at Standen ©National Trust Images/ Andrew Butler 2 James Masters – Standen’s head gardener ©National Trust Images/Andrew Butler 3 Rosery ©National Trust Images/Roger Bloxham 4 House from Upper Lawn with windpump, and Margaret Beale ©National Trust. Mrs Beale’s garden diary page 3 ©National Trust Images/ Roger Bloxham

REFERENCES Garden design National Trust Head Gardener James Masters and Senior Gardener Nick Delves, from original designs by Margaret Beale

www.nationaltrust.org.uk Folly (‘Bothy’)

Prenplants Sussex Limited

10 Kitchen garden when it was previously a rose garden 11 Conservatory bed before clearing

Seeds for the Kitchen Garden

Stone, brick, gravel, aggregates and general building materials

www.prenplants.co.uk

Parker Building Supplies

www.helpmebuildit.co.uk

Penlan Perennials

www.penlanperennials.co.uk Plants for the Quarry Garden

Burncoose Nurseries

www.jparkers.co.uk

www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk

6 Contractor moving in to clear bamboo August 2004 ©James Masters

9 Standen before Garden Revival – view along the Top Terrace ©James Masters

J Parker’s

D.T. Brown

Plants/trees General plants (from peat-free suppliers)

Crûg Farm Plants

www.peternyssen.com

www.chilternseeds.co.uk

www.willshannon.co.uk

8 Standen before Garden Revival – view of Kitchen Garden ©James Masters

Peter Nyssen Ltd

Chiltern Seeds

Will Shannon

5 The garden at Standen ©National Trust Images/ Andrew Butler

7 Lower Terrace in 2007 ©James Masters

Bulbs for the tulip festival and general use

Stone and brick for hard landscaping and repairs Lambs

www.lambsbricks.com

www.crug-farm.co.uk Plants for Rock Top Walk

Oak trellis Mid-Sussex Timber

www.mstc.co.uk

www.burncoose.co.uk Roses for the Rosery David Austin Roses

www.davidaustinroses.co.uk

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TAKE IT OUTSIDE LIVING LANDSCAPES A complete rebuild of the back garden at Kylemore House in Kingston upon Thames creates an outdoor room that is perfect for entertaining

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £276k Build time Six months Size of project 743m2

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he owners of this striking property in Surrey had specified a complete rebuild of their rear garden, along with the creation of a new outdoor swimming pool. The existing garden wasn’t in keeping with the finish of their newly renovated property, and provided limited access to the lawn area and little space to sit and relax. With the lawn and garden positioned higher than the house and paving, the existing retaining walls created only a small space for socialising, and along the 30m rear face of the property there was only one set of steps leading up into the garden.

To tie in with the gym and summer house that had recently been added to the property, the clients wanted an outdoor pool and relaxation area to be installed. They also required an outdoor living area where they could relax in some open shade during the day and enjoy barbecues with family and friends, as well as to use at night with the addition of a fire pit.

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Design and build Creating additional space at the rear of the property was simple to achieve. Living Landscapes designed a seating area to be cut out of the existing garden, close to where the access doors were located. This cut-out also included additional steps, allowing better access to the upper lawn.

Due to the shape of the garden and location of the gym, the swimming pool had to be located to

one side, tying in nicely with the overall design and layout of the different areas. Steps were then installed around the pool to create a woodland walk that led from the pool, through the planting and back to the newly installed patio stairs.

The stunning outdoor living area was a multifaceted and complex installation. Having considered the clients’ requirements, Living Landscapes created a large wood-framed pergola, with fixed angled slats in the roof to provide shade at the hottest times of the day.

Wanting to minimise the impact of the support posts, the team introduced cantilevered sections to the roof, supported mainly by the large fireplace construction; when finished, this offered a grand focal point for the garden and outdoor living area.

So that the fireplace had a more modern internal feel, Living Landscapes opted for bioethanol burners with sliding glass frontage, so that the fire could be open or closed. This whole structure was constructed with a metal frame, clad in fireproof cement board and rendered in K Rend.

Completing this spectacular focal point, Living Landscapes constructed custom-built seating and a bespoke outdoor kitchen area.

1 Seating area with stepped access 2 Bespoke seating 3 Rear landscaping 4 Pool with cedar fencing in background 5 Outdoor living area

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was completed with input from the bioethanol fire supplier, which advised on minimum distances and requirements for the safe use of these fireplaces.

New lawn was laid, with additional planting in the newly created beds supported by a versatile irrigation system. Garden lighting was also installed to finish the design.

Materials Tumbled black sandstone, supplied by London Stone, was laid in a staggered bond to give a more modern feel to the laying pattern. This was complemented by a cladding stone from Fernhill Stone, which was incorporated into the garden and retaining walls. Living Landscapes found this reconstituted concrete stone to be an excellent product that worked particularly well with the paving.

The chimney construction was completed by a metalworking company working to a selection of drawings that had been provided; the team then clad in it cement board. This construction

entertaining and barbecue area features a stone-clad curved back wall from which emanate the slats of the pergola covering the area. A very subtle planting palette has been beautifully employed. Overall, the scheme reflects excellent detailing and a consistently high standard of construction.”

Special requirements The most difficult aspect of this garden’s design and construction was the outdoor living area, which was bespoke in every way 1 Outdoor cooking space possible. While Living Landscapes understood all the techniques being used, a lot of discussion took place on-site to fully utilise the ABOUT LIVING LANDSCAPES team’s combined experience in order to Tecwyn Evans has run Living complete its construction. Shadow gaps also Landscapes for 20 years, covering had to be incorporated into all aspects of the London, Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex. construction, to allow for the undulations on It works to create beautiful outdoor the Fernhill Stone and riven sandstone. spaces for discerning clients. Its show Despite these challenges, the end result is gardens at RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show have received multiple awards. Living a striking and innovative outdoor space that is Landscapes was a winner at the BALI National both beautiful and functional, a sentiment Landscape Awards in 2016. echoed in the judges’ comments at last year’s www.livinglandscapesuk.com BALI Awards: “This impressive scheme features a series of terraces around a renovated property.

REFERENCES The paved areas, Timber Contractor steps and walling have Honeysuckle Bottom Sawmill Living Landscapes been very well www.surrey-oak.com www.livinglandscapesuk.com Contact: Tecwyn Evans executed and the 0208 579 1236 / 07968 449 329

Outdoor cooking Cedar Nursery

Design Our Landscape Designs

www.ourlandscapedesigns.com

Bioethanol fire

Rendering

www.realflame.co.uk

TR Plastering

DURING

www.landscaping.co.uk Real Flame

www.trplasteringservices.co.uk

Metal fabrication

Lighting

www.tiwfabrications.co.uk

The Chiswick Lighting Company (Elipta)

Lawn

www.chiswicklightingcompany.co.uk Irrigation LWS (Rain Bird)

www.lws.uk.com Paving London Stone

www.londonstone.co.uk

TIW Fabrications

London Lawn Turf

www.londonlawnturf.co.uk Plants Barchams

www.barcham.co.uk Outdoor furniture Living Landscapes

www.livinglandscapesuk.com

Wall cladding Fernhill Stone

www.fernhillstone.com Swimming pool Lagoon Pools

www.lagoonpools.co.uk

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GOLD MEDAL

RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2017 • Best Construction • Best Future Spaces Garden Award

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £90k

BRIGHT FUTURE

Build time Two weeks

WARNES MCGARR & CO

Size of project 225m2

Warnes McGarr & Co’s show garden for RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2017 imagines the residential gardens of the future

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esigners Michael John McGarr and Robert Warnes won three medals at RHS Tatton this year for their stunning and unusual show garden, ‘2101’.

The duo was presented with a Gold medal, as well as awards for Best Construction and Best Future Spaces Garden. With a ‘Mad Max’ element, the garden created a talking point at the show and impressed the judges.

The brief As one of the Future Spaces gardens at the show, the brief was to explore the theme of how our residential gardens could look in the future.

The Warnes McGarr & Co garden was set in the year 2101, in a UK that has seen predicted temperature rises of around 7°C. The conceptual garden explored how we could use our gardens, with many of our native plants no longer existing.

A split-level design was included to act as a ‘rain garden’ that manages increased rainwater runoff.

This collects water in the permeable higher areas, and distributes it into lower, densely planted areas that soak up excess moisture, alleviating flood risks.

The plans have to be signed off by the RHS show team, with any queries coming back after application to ensure the garden design is viable within the build schedule.

Materials and build The show garden site was familiar, as it was the exact same location of Warnes McGarr & Co’s Silver Medal-winning 2016 garden, From Hall to Home. On-site kicked off with some excavation work to level out the existing sloped ground.

The show-stopping large specimen cacti were central to the garden’s concept and design, but proved difficult to source at the size required – 60cm across for the barrel cacti (Echinocactus grusonii) and 150cm high for the tall cacti (Polaskia chichipe). Searching found the team on a chase across the warmer parts of Europe, and eventually led them to set up a new business, Cactus Direct, which became the show garden’s lead sponsor.

The structural elements of the garden – the conical relaxing area, the spherical shaded area and the battered-edged sandstone table and benches – were all designed by Robert and created at the steel fabricators. Everything was prebuilt before the team went on-site, so simply had to be put together on arrival.

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The corroded steel structures provided shade for plants that once required warmth and protection to be grown in the UK, such as grapevines and tomatoes. The patterned sphere shape was designed to deliver shade for homeowners and a relaxing place to sit.

Casa Ceramica came on board as a show sponsor and provided the large-format, single-piece porcelain tiles, which draw the eyes up the slope of the garden and form a stepped path. The 3mm-thick wall tiles were built onto a platform that was designed by Robert, so they could be used as floor tiles.

The garden included planting that could cope with extreme heat positioned on the higher level, while plants that could deal with extremes of water and drought were planted on the lower level. It used concepts that can be applied to our gardens today to manage excess rainwater and drought, while alleviating future flood risks.

Trees in the garden include Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine), Alnus glutinosa (common alder) and Betula nigra (river birch), which can all flourish in a warmer climate. Tropical trees and large plants that are growing and thriving in 2101 include: Yucca filifera, Yucca rostrata, Yucca gloriosa, Trithrinax campestris, Nannorrhops ritchiana and Butia odorata.

DURING BUILD

1 A corroded steel pergola to provide shade, with a battered-edge sandstone table and bench 2 Barrel cacti in discarded oil drums among meadow planting on the lower level 3 Casa Ceramica large-format porcelain tiles, forming a stepped path up the garden

REFERENCES

5 Creating the two-stepped landscape

Design and build

Garden structures

6 Installing the rock border, the pergola and getting the barrel cacti in place during the build

Warnes McGarr & Co

www.warnes-mcgarr.co.uk Large cacti

Designed by Robert Warnes of Warnes McGarr & Co Built by MKM Creations

Cactus Direct

www.mkmcreations.co.uk

ABOUT WARNES MCGARR & CO Warnes McGarr & Co is an award-winning garden and landscape design consultancy based in Wigan and Cheshire.

Set up by garden designer Michael John McGarr and landscape designer Robert Warnes, it creates outdoor kitchens, bespoke outdoor furniture design and naturalistic planting schemes with a focus on ecology. www.warnes-mcgarr.co.uk

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www.cactus-direct.co.uk

Stone and aggregates

Tropical plants

Finch Aggregates

The Tropical Plant Company

www.thetropicalplantcompany.co.uk Naturalistic meadow planting Rectory Garden Plants

www.rectorygardenplants.co.uk Large format porcelain tiles Casa Ceramica

www.casaceramica.co.uk

www.finchaggregates.co.uk Timber Brooks Bros

www.brookstimber.com Rugs and cushions BoConcept, Manchester

www.boconcept.com

Images Š Carolyn Hughes

4 A 150cm high Polaskia chichipe cactus in front of the spherical shelter

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STEPPING UP KARENA BATSTONE DESIGN Contemporary chic complements this Georgian property in Bristol

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he client, a busy property developer, wanted a modern garden to connect, and offer an attractive walkway between, a newly built coach house/garage and his Georgian terraced property.

The new garden, which the clients advised would principally be used in the evenings, needed to provide the owner with an elegant, playful space for entertaining that gave family members and guests a number of different areas in which to congregate. The overall style was to be clean and contemporary, complementing the neoclassical style of the Grade II* Georgian terrace. It was also important for the space to deliver a striking view from the kitchen window, which overlooked the garden from the first floor of the property.

Site analysis and challenges The north-facing garden, sloping down from north to south and surrounded by high walls, presented both opportunities and challenges for Karena Batstone Design. The main entrance to the house, accessed via a staircase, was dominated by an oppressively large clipped bay tree situated at the bottom of the stairs. The mature tree, which had been planted very close to the boundary wall, concealed views of the garden and obstructed the walkway. The decision was therefore taken to remove it, and repair damage to the wall caused by the tree’s close proximity.

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softening the boundary walls. The garden was a little overlooked from the high windows of the adjacent terraced houses, and views to the south west from the coach house included a number of modern buildings with windows overlooking the property, which required screening.

Very little of the original planting was worth preserving, except for the mature Hydrangea petiolaris on the east-facing wall by the house.

With the ground compacted and shaded, the clients’ repeated attempts to grow a lawn had failed, and a number of existing trees presented problems and had to be removed. These included a Prunus ‘Tai-haku’, which was severely shading the already dark north end of the garden, a Eucalyptus, which had been planted as a screening tree but felt out of character with the rest of the garden, and a hawthorn, which, although in reasonable condition, was too close to the steps of the coach house. These were replaced with other specimen trees as part of the redesign, strategically located to provide screening, enclosure and year-round interest.

The new design also aimed to break up the bisecting central axis which had been introduced via new steps from the coach house, creating more usable spaces in the garden as well as a more interesting route through it.

Design including the bark of Prunus serrula and the Karena Batstone Design divided the garden winter leaves of Carpinus hedging, was used to into four distinct areas. This approach was complement the new red-brick coach house intended to slow the journey walls; smooth sawn Yorkstone through the space, with the paving was juxtaposed against route passing through a the rough texture of the old series of ‘rooms’ that were Bristol rubble walls that separated by walls of surrounded the garden. pleached hornbeams. It also Borders were kept simple helped to visually widen the and easy to maintain, using Project value garden, adding depth by long-performing perennials. £52k partially concealing and Informal Mediterranean style revealing different areas. planting around the dining area Build time The ‘rooms’ were provided textural contrast to Four months connected via a still, the clipped hedging, with bulbs reflective pool of water, to lift the composition in spring Size of project 2 enhancing the illusion of a and early summer.

140m wider space and bringing A combination of lighting light and movement to the effects, including candlelight, north-facing end of the completed the design, garden. During excavation, special care had to transforming the garden into a magical space by be taken not to disturb the roots of the mature night and allowing the client to entertain family Hydrangea petiolaris that was located close by and friends late into the evening.

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Prunus serrula, its burnished copper stems forming a living sculpture. A series of illuminated stepping stones through the pool completed the feature, lending a sense of fun and adventure while continuing to slow the pace of passage through the garden.

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REFERENCES Design

Paving

Karena Batstone Design

Hard York Quarries Ltd

www.karenabatstone.com

BEFORE/DURING

Build

Stone type ‘Diamond Sawn Yorkshire Buff Stone’ from its Fagley Quarry www.hardyorkquarries.co.uk

Construction organised by the client

Planters Bronzino

Lighting

www.bronzino.co.uk

Lighting for Gardens

www.lightingforgardens.com

Furniture

Hunza

Indian Ocean

www.hunzalighting.com

www.indian-ocean.co.uk

Plants

Fire pit

Middlecombe Nursery

Ak47

www.middlecombenursery.co.uk

www.ak47design.com

3 Candlelight and a fire pit enhance the atmosphere 4 The graphical quality of the garden is enhanced by lighting 5 Modular furniture allows for easy rearrangement 6 Stepping stones lit by side-emitting LED strip lights 7 The dining area, surrounded by scented jasmine and herbaceous borders

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ESSE LANDSCAPES & THE LOVELY GARDEN A back garden in the South Downs gets an extensive multilevel revamp

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he client wished to renovate her Seventies house and garden, located in a small village that forms part of the South Downs National Park. The existing layout consisted mainly of concrete paths, walls and steps, all in a poor state of repair, together with an old round pool and dilapidated pool house. The brief included the creation of a new garden, terraced over several levels, with a larger swimming pool, paved sun lounger and dining areas (with a view to die for!). The client was also a keen kitchen

gardener, so the specification needed to incorporate a greenhouse, cold frame, extensive raised vegetable beds, fruit cage and tool shed.

offering far-reaching views of the sea and lighthouse. The meadow is interplanted with fruit trees and slopes down to the new rectangular pool. Here, a greatly enlarged Yorkstone terrace provides an extensive area Design and build for entertaining and relaxing.

Working with the natural contours, while taking The bespoke pool house includes the pool into consideration covenants that prevented a equipment, with heating provided by an air material change to the existing landscape, the source heat pump, controls for the automatic design broadly follows the previous ‘concrete’ pool cover, toilet/guest facilities and a sitting levels but uses green oak to provide a link to room with deep windows and views of the the sea and natural surroundings. Above the pool and out towards the sea. This creates the pool level, a new circular terrace with bespoke perfect refuge from hot sun or rain. seating has been Intermediate terrace levels created. This is reached provide wide bands of by way of informal oak planting, offering scent and steps through a structure. Malus trees are grassland meadow, planted throughout, using the same species in order to retain continuity and simplicity.

Leading through the centre of Project value the garden, the generous £200k paved steps have natural stone risers and provide a far Build time Six months more relaxed and easy access route. The levels are critical, as Size of project ‘landings’ provide access to 950m2 both left and right sections of the garden. The oak is wired and planted with evergreen jasmine, while the tallest wall is disguised with a long hedge of deciduous Viburnum lantana in order to add to the frosted, winter landscape.

The garden is lit with a selection of light fittings, including purpose-made oak bollards, and is also fitted with a fullyautomated irrigation system.

PROJECT DETAILS

Challenges The property sits on half an acre of steep hillside with long views to the sea and a distant lighthouse. The geography that provides these incredible views also means an extremely challenging 14m rise between 1 New pool terrace and meadow planting 2 Oak steps access the upper seating area 3 Upper seating area 4 Greenhouse and vegetable beds 5 View from the circular terrace www.prolandscapermagazine.com

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the front entrance gate and the rear boundary fence. Unfortunately, access is not available through an adjoining field and all plant and materials had to travel up a steep roadway, constructed as a part of the works. Over the course of the project, around a thousand tonnes of material was carried up and down this narrow route, much of it by tracked forklifts and dumpers. On the positive side, the solid chalk hillside provides an excellent bearing layer for the swimming pool, paved terraces and the many retaining walls. It also afforded drainage, which was particularly beneficial during the frequent periods of wet weather.

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erosion over a bedrock of chalk. I expected, and got, a wonderfully sympathetic treatment with diverse and sustainable planting. What I did not expect was the truly magical effect Louisa created with a wildflower meadow, which has transformed an unused and inaccessible part of the garden into a sheltered belvedere that feels as though it’s a natural part of the landscape. Every time I see it, I am astonished and delighted afresh.”

ABOUT ESSE LANDSCAPES Esse Landscapes is a multi-awardwinning provider of garden design and construction services. Founded

by Stephen Etheridge in 2002, and now e loyin ta t e co any o erate ro its base near East Grinstead in West Sussex. www.esseland.co.uk

ABOUT THE LOVELY GARDEN 6 Aerial view of the garden 7 Poolside dining with distant views 8 Bespoke circular seating 9 Original pool and concrete terrace 10 Dilapidated steps and crumbling walls 11 Sandstone steps and oak retaining walls under construction

Louisa Bell of The Lovely Garden has designed, and been involved in the construction of, a large number of prestigious gardens throughout South East England. www.thelovelygarden.co.uk

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BEFORE

REFERENCES

DURING

Contractor

Outdoor furniture

Esse Landscapes

Garpa

www.esseland.co.uk

www.garpa.co.uk

Designer

Greenhouse and cold frame

The Lovely Garden

Alitex

www.thelovelygarden.co.uk

www.alitex.co.uk

Pool equipment and cover

Fruit cage

Bell Leisure

Harrod Horticultural

www.bell-leisure.co.uk

www.harrodhorticultural.com

Oak

Light fittings

Wealden Oak Ltd.

Light Ideas

www.wealdenoak.co.uk

www.lightideas.co.uk

York stone paving

www.collingwoodlighting.com

Hard York Quarries

Collingwood Lighting

www.hardyorkquarries.co.uk

Irrigation fittings

Plants

www.cityirrigation.co.uk

Palmstead Nurseries

City Irrigation Ltd.

www.palmstead.co.uk

Barbecue

Trees

www.biggreenegg.co.uk

Big Green Egg

Barcham Trees

www.barcham.co.uk

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WILSON MCWILLIAM STUDIO Modern landscaping and planting transforms the dated exterior of Kents Hill Business Park in Milton Keynes

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n 2014, Wilson McWilliam was commissioned to design the internal courtyard area and surrounding landscape of Kestrel House – followed by Redwing House, as an extension to the original commission. The site – part of a more extensive business park in Kents Hill, Milton Keynes – featured an Eighties building that was being refurbished by Circle Property, which was keen to incorporate the surrounding landscape.

Typically for an Eighties business park, Kents Hill had expanses of block paving and massed,

low maintenance shrub planting that swamped the entire site. The landscapes of both Kestrel and Redwing House were decaying and neglected, and contained courtyard spaces that had become overgrown, cluttered and dark.

The lack of usable external space for informal socialising or simple relaxation seemed oppressive, and became a major target in the redesign. The internal courtyards of the two buildings had been overplanted with species that had now outgrown their location, and both spaces needed to deliver more light and visual interest.

BACK IN BUSINESS WINNER Soft Landscaping Construction (non-domestic) £300k-£1.5m

WINNER Best Public or Commercial Outdoor Space

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £881,400 Build time Phase 1: November 2014-June 2015 Phase 2: October 2015-February 2016 Size of project 6,365m2

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Externally, there was an obvious need to create more usable spaces, rather than just developing decorative planting or hardscape solutions. Wilson McWilliam was determined to make these sterile spaces work harder for both the client and the eventual users of the offices.

The brief also asked for a sense of arrival, and for clear views of the buildings and their respective entrances.

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better integrate car parking, in order to create greener areas that engaged office workers and drew them into the landscape. A number of significant level changes across the entire site created a challenge for inclusive access and parking, but this rationalisation of pedestrian and vehicular accessibility to both offices also created new opportunities.

Design and build Both courtyards were cleared, simplified in terms of access, repaved and then replanted to create

1 Molinia caerulea heidebraut with Allium sphaerocephalon ©Paul Childs 2 Road and parking redesigned to prioritise pedestrian movement over vehicles ©Paul Childs 3 Redwing House Courtyard ©Wilson McWilliam Studio 4 New pathways and seating area installed ©Paul Childs 5 Main entrance to Kestrel House ©Paul Childs 6 New pathways and ramps installed to take pedestrians through the planting to the main entrance ©Paul Childs 7 Area surrounded by perennial and grass planting ©Paul Childs

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distinctive spaces of character that encouraged socialising. Kestrel House’s courtyard had steps removed and ramps installed, while overgrown shrubs were replaced with a single specimen Amelanchier. The area was repaved with sandstone and brick pavers, and surrounded by a planted bund of Molinia, retained with corten steel. The Redwing House courtyard was paved to the periphery with brick pavers, with two planted landforms of Molinia and Nothofagus and two Vera Solo modular curved benches at its heart.

At Kestrel House, Wilson McWilliam carved a new social space out of the lawn embankment, with an ellipse paved in 1m x 1m slabs of textured paving. Rendered walls defined the level changes, while also creating planting beds that introduced massed, colourful planting. The main pathways were given a tar spray and chip finish as a cost effective solution, and bench seating provided a focus and an invitation for people to use the space.

Fulfilling the design intention to create a more open, meadow-like quality to the landscape, Molinia ‘Heidebraut’– planted densely for strong light and colour effect, and interplanted with Allium sphaerocephalon – drifts across the entire landscape like a river.

Additional colour is delivered via massed planting of Lavandula, Salvia and Rudbeckia, with some areas of mixed Cornus planting for winter stem colour. Phlomis, Geranium and Sedum offer accents, alongside Stipa gigantea, Calamagrostis and Panicum.

Acer campestre provides the main structural

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tree planting, framing the main entrance, with Zelkova serrata used as specimens within key spaces, and Prunus lusitanica employed as a meandering screening element.

The basic palette of materials at Kestrel was carried through to the frontage of Redwing House, where car parking was reconfigured in favour of a planted embankment, delivering a more direct route to Kingfisher House. The road and the parking were redesigned to prioritise pedestrian movement over vehicles, with parking relocated along the main access road, which was repaved.

Wilson McWilliam Studio is an award-winning design practice that creates bespoke gardens and exciting landscape architecture. The studio is based in London, but works across the South East of the UK, and internationally. It is interested in delivering memorable places and experiences, producing imaginative, uplifting and carefully tailored designs.

Kings Landscapes

Instant Hedges

www.kingslandscapes.com

www.instanthedges.co.uk

Conservation Textured Paving

Turf

Marshalls

Paynes Turf

www.marshalls.co.uk

www.paynesturf.co.uk

Brick paving, SeptimA in Brownstone (used in the Redwing House courtyard)

Lighting, Stake 1.0 (used in the Redwing Courtyard)

Vande Moortel

Wever & Ducré

www.vandemoortel-bricksandpavers.com

www.weverducre.com

Sandstone

Lighting, Hunza Pure LED 4W spike with pillar lights in copper finish (used in Kestrel House courtyard)

London Stone ©Wilson McWilliam Studio

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www.wmstudio.co.uk Challenges The clients were initially hesitant, having had little experience of landscape works, and the budget for both REFERENCES schemes was tight as Trees Design this project represented Deepdale Trees Wilson McWilliam Studio Circle’s first foray into www.deepdale-trees.co.uk www.wmstudio.co.uk external landscape Hedging Main contractor design. Wilson McWilliam

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endeavoured to use materials economically, while also aiming to create a sense of impact and a fresh approach.

www.londonstone.co.uk Vera Solo benches mmcité

www.mmcite.com Planting Robin Tacchi Plants

Hunza

www.hunzalighting.com Tar spray and chip Installed by Kings Landscapes

www.robintacchiplants.com

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FINALIST

BREATHING SPACE ALEXANDRA FROGGATT DESIGN

PROJECT DETAILS Project value £28.5k Build time Nine weeks Size of project 62m2

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This tiny plot in Kennet Gardens, Bradford-on-Avon is transformed after the clients were inspired by an RHS show garden

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he clients were inspired by Alexandra Froggatt’s show garden ‘The Garden of Solitude’ at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2014, which had won the Best in Category for the APL ‘Your Garden, Your Budget’ and a Silver Gilt medal.

‘The Garden of Solitude’ was a space in which to relax and escape from a hectic modern life, featuring an architectural pergola and raised beds, surrounding a sunken seating area which offered refuge and a feeling of privacy. The sound of water cascading from the structure into a white pool was designed to negate urban sound pollution, and soft lighting behind a recycled glass panel created an ambient effect for the evening. Inspired by the geometric shapes and colours of crystals, the space used angular lines to direct the eye towards the seating area and then towards focal points

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around the garden, providing gentle distraction and interest. Naturalistic planting in pastel shades softened the landscaped lines in the garden.

The clients loved the highly creative and unusual use of a small space. They desired a compact but interesting and innovative outdoor room that was influenced by their love of art and would excite the imagination. They also wished for their garden to feel larger than its tiny 62m2 plot. Naturalistic planting which incorporated herbs and fruit was key, as was lighting. The clients asked for the sound of water but had very young grandchildren, so open water was not an option. They also required storage for garden tools and an area to grow vegetables.

Design and build The two main features in the space are a limestone paved seating area with a built-in cantilevered wooden bench, and a bespoke, contemporary aluminium pergola with angled beams and cantilevered sections. Designed to create a focal point and a degree of drama, the pergola also offers some shelter. The decking area provides a space from which the clients can barbecue, and a limestone patio with a contemporary dining set is used for entertaining.

Carefully placed angles and level changes within the garden create the illusion of greater space.

The clients’ desire for the sound of cascading water is satisfied with a waterfall at the end of the path, built into the back wall and cascading down a sheet of clear Perspex. The waterfall’s reservoir is covered with slate for safety, and it features LED lighting. Walling was built around part of the garden in both painted render and wooden cladding to add interest, and soft uplighting was used throughout the garden to highlight key features and plants.

The planting incorporates herbs, wildflowers, grasses and perennials, all selected to suit the local heavy clay soil and create a pretty ‘wild herb garden’ effect. Fruit cordons are planted along the left side of the garden, and a single multi-stemmed Amelanchier lamarckii takes pride of place in a raised stone bed in the far left corner, adding vertical interest, with its stems standing out against the rendered backdrop.

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is incorporated here for storage. The garden is finished off with quirky, modern furniture from EMU, giving it additional and almost sculptural interest.

Challenges The main challenge, aside from designing for such a small space, was transporting and installing the pergola which was of a considerable size. It was constructed in two sections to allow it to be transported to the site, and required extra manpower to transport and install, alongside the lifting equipment.

ABOUT ALEXANDRA FROGGATT DESIGN Alexandra Froggatt Design is a multi award winning Cheshirebased landscape design company that is committed to bringing innovation to every garden. Established in 2010, it focuses on beautiful details and incorporating unique sculptural elements, while ensuring the garden complements and enhances its surroundings. www.alexandrafroggatt.com

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SHOW GARDEN 1 Main garden view from the lounge 2 The angular pergola creates fascinating shadow effects 3 Dining area with seating, pendant Foscarini light and bench 4 Low planting

5 Mixed herbaceous borders with Salvia and Achillea ‘Cerise Queen’ 6 The gap is staggered to prevent being seen from the house 7 The previous empty space 8 During installation

REFERENCES Design

Lighting

Alexandra Froggatt Design

Foscarini

Contractor

Wooden bench

Out Back Gardens

London Stone

Bespoke; designed by Alexandra Froggatt, frame built by Alma Sheet Metal Ltd, constructed by Out Back Gardens

www.londonstone.co.uk

www.almasheetmetal.co.uk

Plants

Decking, door and cladding

www.alexandrafroggatt.com

www.foscarini.com

www.out-back-gardens.com Paving

www.howardnurseries.co.uk Pergola Belmont Fabrication (Congleton)

www.belmontfabrication.co.uk

www.biggreenegg.co.uk Paint

EMU

www.emu.it

Cuprinol

www.cuprinol.co.uk

Water feature

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Barbecue Big Green Egg

Furniture

BEFORE

Images ©Alexandra Froggatt Design

Supplied by Out Back Gardens sourced from local timber merchants

Howard Nurseries

Bespoke; designed by Alexandra Froggatt, constructed

by Out Back Gardens

Render K Rend

www.k-rend.co.uk

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PROJECT DETAILS Project value £4.5m Build time 12 months Size of project Phase 1: 26,000m2

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URBAN PARADISE

WINNER

Regeneration Scheme over £500k

WINNER

RESI Awards 2017 Development of the Year

IN-EX LANDSCAPES

WINNER

London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2017 Best Regeneration Project

In-Ex Landscapes delivered a monumental regeneration project in the City, transforming a derelict site into the modern and stunning London City Island

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ondon City Island is a vibrant new development, key to the regeneration of Leamouth Peninsula. An area with a rich naval heritage, London City Island is surrounded by the River Lea and a small ecological park encompassing streams, ponds, meadows and wildlife. It is within walking distance of Canary Wharf and, with the introduction of a specially commissioned bridge, there are now direct connections to Canning Town Station.

Having been an unusable and derelict sector of contaminated land for 35-40 years, the 12 acre site was once a margarine factory and an industrial eyesore. The programme for the project began in November 2015 and was completed by November 2016.

services/ducting, landscape finishes, lighting and irrigation.

The vast amounts of capping and piling required to retain the island were undertaken before In-Ex Landscapes’ commencement on the site, and a new purposeful access bridge was introduced, allowing for the regeneration and transformation of this unique scheme.

During the consultation phase it became apparent that contamination from the existing land could not enter the new soil and drainage layers. Similarly, the permeating water from run-off and rainfall was not allowed to soak through into the aquifers of the neighbouring River Lea. The solution was an impermeable layer applied to all soft landscaping regions of

the development – this was an approach which required specialist site training, in which the team was shown how to connect butyl layers over vast and undulating areas at varying times within the phased process.

Modular granite walls and bespoke stonework were all designed into exacting stone schedules for cutting, and installed by In-Ex Landscapes. The schedule involved modular units of many shapes and sizes that were used to enhance and retain level changes and plant beds.

1 Connecting walkways interlink the scheme 2 Modular granite walls frame level changes 3 City Island Arts Club

Build Project architect, Chris Blandford Associates, was responsible for creating a landscape masterplan linking the mixed-use development, incorporating 1,900 residential units, retail work spaces, leisure facilities, cultural exhibition space (5,000m2) and offices (20,000m2). The scheme comprised large quantities of paved and pedestrian walkways, as well as communal areas for relaxation and socialising. The site also included a luxury decking and swimming pool area, external lighting scheme and fully automated irrigation system.

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Further landscape works throughout the scheme included: • Paving treatments and procurement • External brickwork and specialist mortars • Mastic finishing to all perimeters of buildings and light fittings • Macadam surfaces and extensive build ups to roadways • Granite kerbs and edgings throughout • Attenuation drainage cells, recessed inspection covers and surface drainage • Extensive groundworks and forming of contours • Soft landscaping including planting, turfing, seeding, tree pits and semi-mature trees • Tree protection and arboricultural work to existing trees • Topsoil importation, fertilisers and mulches • Fully automated irrigation system to lawns and soft landscaping areas 166 PORTFOLIO 2017 / Pro Landscaper

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• All lighting, including ducting and switching • Hardwood decking and fencing • Trim trail and play equipment • External furniture, fittings, gates, railings and bollards.

The welcoming new environment at London City Island offers innovative living and working accommodation, particularly appealing to London’s creative industries who are power houses of regeneration and growth in new quarters of the city. Embraced by a series of diverse landscaped public spaces, including plazas, riverside gardens and cycle and pedestrian routes, this major mixed-use and sustainable development will become an authentic and creative community, bursting with ideas and vitality. Already an award-winning regeneration scheme, London City Island has also been appointed the home to the English National Ballet.

4 Phase 1 views from the finished living spaces 5 The specially commissioned ‘island’ bridge 6 Extensive drift planting over undulating areas 7 Regenerated access links to the Canning Town Rotunda 8 Works in progress 9 Initial piling works and extensive ground works 10 Years of neglected unusable land before work

ABOUT IN-EX LANDSCAPES In-Ex Landscapes is a multi award winning landscape contractor with decades of experience working across London and the Home Counties. It has project managed and constructed a portfolio of London’s high rofile and de andin co ercial ro ect ey continue to deliver i uality c e e a art o t e continued re eneration t rou out t e city www.in-exlandscapes.com

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REFERENCES Build

Topsoil

In-Ex Landscapes

Freeland Horticulture

Landscape architect

Butyl layer

Chris Blandford Associates

Keyline

www.in-exlandscapes.com

www.freelandhorticulture.co.uk

www.keyline.co.uk

www.cbastudios.com

Irrigation

Paving

Waterwise Solutions

www.waterwisesolutions.co.uk

Marshalls Natural Stone

Play equipment

www.marshalls.co.uk

Russell Play

Plants

www.russell-play.com

Tamar Nurseries

www.tamarviewnurseries.co.uk

Hand Made Places

www.handmadeplaces.co.uk

Trees

Gates, railings and bollards

Lorenz Von Ehren Trees

Metalcraft

www.LvE.de

www.makingmetalwork.com

Turf Naybur Bros

www.nayburbros.com

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2017 RHS CHATSWORTH FLOWER SHOW WINNER RHS Gold Medal, Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award

NOT JUST FOR SHOW PAUL HERVEY-BROOKES The IQ Quarry Garden from the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2017 was relocated and rebuilt to form a contemplative space for all to enjoy

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or the first ever RHS Chatsworth Flower Show in June, Paul Hervey-Brookes was commissioned by the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) to design a show garden to celebrate its centenary. The garden was also constructed to showcase the habitat created by quarries, and to highlight the essential role played by the quarrying and extractive industries today. To reflect this, the design needed to be inspired by a quarry, rather than simply replicating one.

The largest at the show at 480m², the IQ Quarry Garden went on to win an RHS Gold Medal as well as Best Show Garden, and the highly coveted Best Construction Award for contractors GK Wilson. Visitors could view the garden through horizontal fissures in a 3m high sculpted boundary wall called ‘Passing Light’, created by Ann-Margreth Bohl using Corten steel.

Relocation Even in the initial consultations between Paul and the IQ, the plan was to relocate the garden after the show to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. As James Thorne, CEO of the IQ, explains: “The IQ Quarry Garden played a big part in the Institute’s centenary celebrations campaign. But RHS show gardens are a huge amount of work for a short, five-day window of opportunity for the public to enjoy. So we donated the garden, albeit in a new layout, to the National Memorial Arboretum, where it can be enjoyed for years to come.”

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Show garden images ©Dan Lord, Forecast Designs

PROJECT DETAILS Project value Estimated valuation £50k Build time Three weeks Size of project 9m x 70m

Spanning across 150 acres, the Arboretum honours the country’s armed forces and civil services, with more than 300 dedicated memorials and 30,000 trees, showcasing it as a place of life, rather than loss.

The Arboretum is built on an old gravel quarry, on land gifted by Tarmac on a 999-year lease.

The IQ wanted the garden to feature as a lasting legacy to the quarrying industry, but to serve an entirely different purpose to the original show garden. As a result, it has been redesigned as a quiet and reflective space which visitors to the Arboretum can walk through.

Essentially a repurposing of the garden’s elements, rather than a replica of the show garden, the new site is long and linear, based on a slope. The garden includes a pathway to provide easy access for all visitors. As well as being able to enjoy the garden, the pathway also offers a new perspective to view the arboretum.

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due to health and safety restrictions. The Passing Light sculptural installation has been reconstructed at the Arboretum, but in three component parts, staggered across the length of the landscape, with trees used to create a winding route through the space.

Planting Despite adverse weather conditions at Chatsworth which saw torrential rain, the plants thrived in the show garden and were able to be relocated to the Arboretum. The initial planting scheme aimed to remind people of the semi-wild scrubland around industrial landscapes where some plants have selfseeded, whilst others have been added, increasing biodiversity with a mixture of native and non-native species, including white flowered foxglove and common teasel.

Trees planted at the new site included a 10m-high Quercus rober (English oak) and a

Salix (willow) from Chatsworth, as well as Mespilus germanica (medlar) and a Taxodium from Paul’s ‘Viking Cruises World of Discovery Garden’ at the RHS Hampton Court Palace 1 A view of the garden at the National Memorial Arboretum 2 The Institute of Quarrying’s motto ‘Terram autem filiis hominum’ was cast into Corten steel 3 The path creates a new walkway for visitors 4 Ann-Margreth Bohl’s sculptural wall ‘Passing Light’ 5 The original design by Paul Hervey-Brookes of the RHS Chatsworth Quarry Garden Pro Landscaper / PORTFOLIO 2017 169

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Flower Show in July. These, and the herbaceous perennials from Chatsworth, were used to create a more structured, year-round display, but also proved to be one of the biggest challenges throughout the relocation due to the weight and size of the trees.

Challenges GK Wilson Landscape Services, which built the original show garden, started construction at the Arboretum in September 2017, having carefully relocated each element to the site in Staffordshire.

One of the main features of the garden, the statuesque monoliths, were made using material from Delabole Slate, a quarry based in Cornwall.

The trees proved challenging to relocate due to their weight, and meant that GK Wilson had to hire a large telehandler to place everything into the ground. Large concrete footings also had to be used to support the wall on the sloped site, with big outriggers to secure the wall down.

Many elements from the show garden were repurposed, such as the curbs, which GK Wilson reused as a plinth for the sculpture by AnnMargreth Bohl. Describing this approach, Gareth

Wilson, director of GK Wilson Landscape Services, said: “It was a brilliant project to work on, as a lot of the plants and materials for the show garden were recycled and put back into a project which will be there forever. That’s the kind of project we like to be involved in.”

Being an enclosed space, the restraints of the Arboretum were similar to that of a show garden, with deliveries taking place on site at the same time as visitors. The benefit was having longer to build the garden, taking nearly three weeks to transform the show garden into Paul’s new design.

Paul Hervey-Brookes said of the new garden, which opened to the public on 19 October: “The new design is true to the spirit of the original IQ

Quarry Garden, which represented the life cycle of a quarry, from extraction to reinstatement and sustainability. It incorporates many of the features of the RHS Chatsworth show garden, including elements of ‘Passing Light’. Hidden amongst the planting are a number of slate monoliths, acknowledging the garden’s quarrying roots.

“We have created a linear ‘walk-through’ space, providing a beautifully planted corridor linking elements of the Arboretum. It’s wonderful to think that the garden will now be enjoyed by future generations, as well as providing a lasting legacy to the Institute’s centenary.”

ABOUT PAUL HERVEY-BROOKES Paul Hervey-Brookes is a wellrespected designer who has built a strong reputation for landscapes and gardens that are classically English, relying on planting schemes to create spaces and rich, multi-layered habitats. He works on a diverse range of public landscapes and private gardens both in the UK and internationally and has created a number of award-winning RHS show gardens.

www.paulherveybrookes.com

REFERENCES Sponsor The Institute of Quarrying

Hanson UK

www.hanson.co.uk

www.quarrying.org Designer

Tarmac

www.tarmac.com

Paul Hervey-Brookes

www.paulherveybrookes.com

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Contractor GK Wilson Landscape Services

www.gkwilsonlandscaping.co.uk Supporters

University of Derby

www.derby.ac.uk Sculpture

Ann-Margreth Bohl

www.annmargrethbohl.com Trees

Aggregate Industries

Deepdale Trees

Birchover Stone Ltd

Plants

www.aggregate.com

www.birchoverstone.co.uk Bradstone

www.bradstone.com

www.deepdale-trees.co.uk Glendale Horticulture

www.glendale-horticulture.co.uk Volunteers Nottingham Trent University

Cemex UK

www.ntu.ac.uk

www.cemex.co.uk Delabole Slate Company

www.delaboleslate.co.uk

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