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Created by garden designer Jane Bingham & Penny Hearn the ‘Let’s Go Fly A Kite!’ garden at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show 2019, won an RHS Silver Medal and Best Construction Award.
By garden designer Katrina Kieffer-Wells of Earth Designs. This modern family garden was split into 3 distinct areas.
By Garden Designer Andrea Newill. The client had recently added a kitchen extension to the property and were left with an awkward space to deal with.
By Hampshire garden designer Janet Bligh. The new owners of this large garden wanted to create a family-friendly space with play areas for their young children, seating areas for different times of day and a small vegetable garden.
The owners of this large garden wanted an informal garden to attract wildlife and seating areas to sit and enjoy the sun and the view of the brook.
By London garden designer Julie Zeldin. The large area of lawn in this garden is an important football pitch for the young boys in the family and their friends!
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD. This tiny Zen garden in Blackheath was inspired by the clients' extensive travels in Asia.
By West Sussex garden designer Christine Fowler. This sunny south-facing garden in South London belongs to a beautician whose business is based from home.
Designed by James Brunton-Smith. This is a relatively small urban garden, typical of many London gardens it is very much longer than it is wide.
By London based garden designer Pippa Schofield. After building a new conservatory it became clear that the view out onto the garden needed improving.
By London based garden designer Pippa Schofield. The brief for this garden was to change the whole way the garden was organised.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD The back garden of this terraced Greenwich town house was re-landscaped to create an outdoor room, designed to reflect the contemporary interior.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD. This dreary north-facing London back garden was transformed into a pretty space with large flowering borders, a lawn and a seating area at the sunny end.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD. A family garden created for a New Zealand couple with two young children, in a small back yard in Greenwich, London.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD.This long thin West London garden had lots of lovely mature trees providing a good structure, but a lot shade.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD. The brief was to create a garden for a new town house, and to accommodate a tiny (2.5M x 5M) cedar clad artist studio within the design.
Designed by Gillie Leaf Garden Design. A north-west facing garden with an awkward shape and slope to the rear boundary on a new development. The developers left the garden laid to lawn. The strong triangular shape of this very empty garden needed to be disguised.
Designed by Katrina Kieffer-Wells. This long urban garden was almost completely bare, but for two large established trees. The client had attempted to construct a pond in the near right corner using green slate boulders as a decorative surround and requested that this should be finished and included in the design.
Designed by Katrina Kieffer-Wells. Since the clients bought this property 5 years ago they have undertaken sporadic and incomplete landscaping works. This included the installation of a home office and the construction of a large brick built koi carp pond. Both features are to remain in the final design.
Designed by Katrina Kieffer-Wells. The clients bought their house about a year before they commissioned the garden design, with a high-spec interior that was finished and ready to live in. However the garden was in an overgrown state – charming in a ramshackle way, but rather impractical.
By garden designer Christine Wilkie. The front garden of this period Edwardian property in west London was a large expanse of concrete hard standing, and overgrown planting. The overriding aim of the design was to create a garden that combined space for off-street parking for one car, architectural soft landscaping as well as a place to sit and watch the world go by.
Designed by Christine Wilkie. The owner of this small rear garden wanted to ensure year-round colour, fragrance, and interest.
By garden designer Katrina Kieffer-Wells of Earth Designs. The garden is on two levels with the main area adjoining the house containing two separate areas for dining and for entertaining and relaxation. Flooring throughout is large rectangular cream travertine paving.
By garden designer Katrina Kieffer-Wells of Earth Designs. The theme of the design is based on the distinctive garden of Frida Kahlo, with a strong colour palette of cobalt blue and zingy yellow. A series of rendered raised beds are positioned throughout the garden, increasing in height towards the rear of the space.
Designed by Charlotte Rowe MSGD. This garden was shortlisted in the Small Residential Gardens category in The SGD Awards 2012.
By London designer, Joanna Archer. The owners of this traditional, shady Victorian front garden wanted to resolve the problem of Copper Beech tree roots that obstructed the path to their door.
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. A large Victorian House on the edge of London had an overgrown garden and a very uninteresting terraced patio which the owners were not using properly or happy with.
By garden designer Emma Plunket. The young couple who purchased this Kensington house sought Emma Plunket’s technical advice and creativity to transform the developer’s uninspiring garden.
This small contemporary garden was designed to beautifully compliment the ultra modern interiors of this Victorian terrace in Highgate, north London.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. This plant-rich urban courtyard in a coastal town was designed for a passionate gardener and a cook.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. On view year-round through floor to ceiling glazed walls, it is important that this garden keeps its good looks even in the depths of winter.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. This contemporary family garden is softened by generous planting, giving it a green structure, splashes of colour and wafting scent throughout the seasons
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. Simplicity was the key to the design of this tiny urban back garden.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. The idea of stepping over a channel of water into an earthly paradise has persisted since the earliest gardens were created in the Middle East centuries ago.
By Sussex based garden designer Anna Helps. A wonderful Sussex garden with views to the wider landscape.
By Sussex based garden designer Anna Helps. This garden included a stunning and expansive porcelain patio area with knapped flint walls, an outdoor kitchen and an elevated dining platform allowing this client to entertain outside all year round.
Corten steel is a modern material often used by garden designers and landscape architects to make garden planters, retaining walls and other structures. Here are some inspirational uses of corten steel from recent show gardens as well as our professional garden designer community.
By Oxfordshire based garden designer Richard Rogers.This south facing garden on the Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire border blends contemporary design elements with traditional materials and clever detailing to create a strong connection between the house and garden.
Designed by garden designer Helen Elks-Smith MSGD. Traditional with a contemporary twist, this garden located on the outskirts of London is designed for relaxed family living and informal entertaining.
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. Claudia was asked by this client to design and plant a newly converted farm courtyard area which had already had the hard landscaping put down.
Designed by Tara Dalton of Tara Dalton Garden Design. The house is a 1920s Arts and Crafts style house in a stunning position with sweeping views of the Weald. It is a large garden of approximately two acres with a paddock and large wildlife pond.
By Hertfordshire based garden designer Judy Shardlow of Heartwood Garden Design. This garden was designed to create a relaxing traditional English garden and in particular to create a warm enclosed patio area close to the house.
By Reading based MSGD garden designer Andrea Newill. A contemporary sloping garden around a generous level terrace within the sloping site, laid with sawn, contemporary beige limestone to tie in with the interior floor of the house.
By Reading based MSGD garden designer Andrea Newill. The property is in a stunning location within an area of outstanding natural beauty bordering national trust meadows and ancient woodland.
By North East Hampshire based garden designer Sarah Plested. The owner of this garden had a severe hayfever allergy so after research, the plant selection was based on non-wind pollinated plants, flower shape reducing pollen exposure and ground cover plants to prevent weeds.
By Rhode Island garden designer Shawn Mayers, APLD. The client is a multi-generational, multi-cultural family that occupies two separate living areas of a new home in Lakeville, M. The house is a craftsman-style, two-story structure on a 2+ acre lot in a subdivision located in the suburban Boston area.
By Cheshire based garden designers Jane Bingham and Penny Hearn. A conceptual garden created to support the Mid Cheshire Hospital Charity’s ‘Everybody Knows Somebody’ dementia appeal.
By garden designer Matt Nichol. The owners of this garden in Woodford, Cheshire, wanted to create a garden retreat as a destination point.
By garden designer Matt Nichol. This garden with a view, high up in the exquisite Cotswold countryside, was designed to encompass the breathtaking panoramic vista.
Designed by garden designer Helen Elks-Smith MSGD. Featured on the front cover of the Garden Design Journal.
By garden designer Amanda Patton MSGD. Short-Listed for the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2012 in Planting Design Category.
By London garden designer Cassandra Crouch. This large garden in Hertfordshire sits to the rear of a modern barn conversion owned by a young family.
By Surrey garden designer Linda Regel. Neglected areas of a garden around an Arts and Crafts style house in Surrey were redesigned to create interlinking garden rooms.
Designed by West and South of England designer Amanda Patton MSGD. This garden, set in a valley just outside Bath, was made up of four distinct areas, bearing no relationship to each other, and all at different levels.
By Norwich garden designer Jamie Miles. The garden was created to provide a space to relax for guests staying in this former Methodist Chapel now serving as luxury four star holiday accommodation.
By London garden designer Sara Jane Rothwell. This Somerset garden is both contemporary and natural.
By Sussex based garden designer Elizabeth Warner. The inspiration for these modern suburban gardens came from the client’s desire for classic plants in an informal scheme and a specific colour palette of blues, purples and white.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD. An oasis created within the existing walled boundaries of the old garden, a contemporary design complimented by rich planting.
Designed by Katrina Kieffer-Wells. The design aimed to provide a low maintenance extension of the fresh and breezy style of the interior of this family home.
Designed by Manoj Malde. The owner bought this penthouse with the prospect of creating a roof garden. The space was a blank canvas.
Designed by Gillie Leaf Garden Design. This very large, north-facing roof terrace had an extremely exposed and open aspect. The brief was to replicate the modern and airy style of the apartment. The roof terrace was rather bleak and bare apart from a dining table and chairs and a wooden bench.
By London based garden designer Adolfo Harrison. This roof garden used cedar as a lightweight and enduring material to create dappled shade and shelter from the strong winds.
A 9m x 15m unused roof terrace in Chelsea was completely redesigned.
By West Yorkshire based garden designer Tracy Foster MSGD. This small, awkwardly shaped suburban garden overlooked by surrounding houses was redesigned following the construction of a new extension with a huge picture window.
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. A completely neglected garden in Surrey was transformed with new paths, a large proportion of the garden was re-levelled and a wildlife pond was created.
By Garden Designer Sarah Layton. My client, Debbie Hougie, approached me to design a garden for her that would be ecologically friendly as well as fantastically stimulating and fun for her children, Alex and Jacob (aged 5 and 2 1/2).
By Sussex based garden designer Anna Helps. Certain projects require specialist features, such as ponds or koi pools. With an enviable location onto open countryside, the challenge was to ensure that a modern design would sit naturally within the wider setting.
Created by garden designer Charlie Hartigan of Envisage Gardens, 1 in 10 garden at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show 2019 was designed as part of the RHS Young Designer of the Year competition.
By Ireland based garden designer Andrew Christopher Dunne. “The Sustainable seafood garden” tells the story of the journey from tide to table of the fish and seafood that surround and inhabit the island and the multitude of people and industries that support it.
The first ever show garden from new designer Esra Parr (Esra Parr Gardens), this vibrant, colourful garden is evocative of Aegean Holidays. This beautiful garden won a Gold medal at Hampton Court Flower Show in 2015.
By Berkshire garden designer Joanne Alderson Design. Keith & Kirsty bought this contemporary home with river frontage and wanted a garden to match.
By Hampshire garden designer Janet Bligh. The clients of this garden wanted to create a large outdoor dining area by the house with a pergola to provide some shade, and to keep an open feel to the garden.
By Hampshire garden designer Janet Bligh. A simple bold design with moving water and soft planting creates an intimate garden space within a large estate in Haslemere, Surrey.
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. A once neglected and overgrown garden redesigned for a celebrity in the Cotswolds.
By London based garden designer Maïtanne Hunt MSGD, MBALI. Maïtanne used every available surface to create this small city haven.
By Blackheath based garden designer Catherine Clancy MSGD. A courtyard front garden created for this elegant Greenwich riverside Georgian house using reclaimed granite street cobbles and yellow London stock brick.
By (now retired) Garden Designer Valerie Thorning. This narrow strip of land is the rear garden of a timber-framed period property situated with one side adjacent to the main street.
An APLD Gold Award winning front garden by North Carolina, USA landscape designer Mardi Letson.
Designed by Christine Wilkie. This large, sloping family garden in Middlesex cleverly combines both contemporary and traditional styles, divided by evergreen yew hedging.
Designed by Christine Wilkie. The owners of this small, 55 sqm sloping garden in south-west London wanted a seamless transition from their recently renovated home.
By Aralia Garden Design. To be in keeping with the traditional Victorian style of the property, the solution was based around a flowing design which helped to create a journey through the garden and it's different spaces.
By garden designer Andrea Newill MSGD. The site is more than 50m long and only 5.5m wide, with a steep slope upwards away from the house. This daunting shape mean’t that the garden was impractical and under used with just a small terrace squashed close to the house.
By Argyll and Bute based garden designer Rachel Bailey. A coastal garden in West Scotland that settles the garden into the wider landscape of the Cowal Peninsula and the Kyle of Bute. Rachel won the ‘planting design under £20K’ category for her garden in the Pro Landscaper UK ‘Small Project, Big Impact’ Awards 2020.
Designed by garden designer Helen Elks-Smith MSGD. This project provided us with the exciting opportunity to design a garden overlooking a natural harbour. We were inspired by the curvilinear landscape of this coastal location and the small island adjacent to the shoreline.
By Chichester based garden designer David Loy of Your Garden Design. The garden design is modern and contemporary, consistent with the style of the house and utilising materials sympathetic to both the exterior and décor within.
Designed by Helen Elks-Smith MSGD. The garden now provides somewhere to sit in the sun for morning coffee, for lunch and to catch the last rays of summer.
By Garden Designer Merilen Mentaal. This is a top floor outdoor terrace right on the beach in Tallinn, Estonia.
By garden designer Richard Rogers. The health and wellbeing benefits of gardens were being celebrated in a specially designed garden at RHS Chatsworth - one of the country’s most prestigious flower shows.
Created by garden designer Rae Wilkinson the ‘Space Within’ garden at RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2019, won an RHS Gold Medal, Best in Category and People’s Choice awards.
Designed by garden designer Juliet Sargeant MSGD. Shortlisted in the Landscape Sustainability category in The SGD Awards 2012.
By John Woods Nurseries. The Family Friendly Garden at Capel Manor has evolved from the Upwardly Mobile Garden, a gold medal winning garden at the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show 2010.
By Surrey based garden designer Karen Holley. A busy professional couple wanted a sunny Mediterranean garden in their south facing property, with easy access to the gym at the end of the garden for the personal training business run from home.