Small Residential Garden
Designed by Charlotte Rowe MSGD. This garden was shortlisted in the Small Residential Gardens category in The SGD Awards 2012.
The brief for this 80sqm plot was to create a stylish, contemporary, family garden - with no lawn. To avoid over-paving, a key design decision was to break the space up into two principal seating or dining areas connected by a pathway, set amongst large beds of rich planting to soften the hard landscaping. A key issue was that the house stood over 60cm above the garden and the creation of an upper terrace level in timber decking worked both functionally and visually to avoid undermining the building’s damp proof course. Key brief on this garden was a modern take on an English country garden.
Plant list
Central bed: Euphorbia char. Humpty Dumpty, Rosa Gertrude Jekyll, Alchemilla mollis, Sedum Iceberg, Viola cornuta Alba, Aquilegia Shaggy white, Rosmarinus officinalis, Allium Mount Everest, Verbena hastata Pink Spires, Agapanthus Enigma on edging
Foreground hedging Buxus sempervirens with Alchemilla mollis edging
Right hand bed: Olive trees, Lavandula ang. Munstead, Santolina virens (Rosmarinifolius), Pinus mugo Mops.
Left hand bed: Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle, Ligustrum jonandrum 'lollypops', Pittosporum tobira Nanum, Alchemilla epsipola
Designed by Charlotte Rowe
Other gardens by this designer
- Large family garden with infinity edge pool
- Traditional garden and parterre
- Elegant terrace garden in Knightsbridge
- Roof garden in Holland Park
- Timeless elegance - A courtyard garden
- Shot with blue
- Grassed amphitheatre
- Contemporary architectural town garden
- Small private garden with a Mediterranean feel
- Bridges and screens - Water feature garden
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