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Rhoose
A tired drab and bored garden, decked down one side, to hide the sloping nature of the garden with a moss riddled patchy lawn, was to us at Urban Jungle solutions the ideal blank canvas. The simple brief was something easy to manage with colourful plants year round and, most importantly an engaging and large social area for BBQ’s and friends to come round and enjoy.
With over 10 tons of soil to move and shape to create the new garden, a digger was needed to help out with the heavy toil. The ground was heavy set thick clay sitting just above pin rock. It was necessary to incorporate over four tons of top soil and compost to enable the kind of planting plan that our clients wanted.
A hedge along the boundary at nearly 1.8m’s high will provide an almost instantaneous screen. The rail is to hold the new hedge in place and protect it from the coastal winds (the coast is less than 1/2 a mile away) The hedge is hornbeam which has lucious green leaves through the summer and whilst its not an evergreen, it retains the brown leaves through the winter till the new growth shoots in the spring.
In the picture below you can see a red brick border that surrounds the lawn making mowing quick and simple – no need to get the strimmer out!
To break the triangular nature of the garden at one end and better define space a structure was incorporated right in the middle of the main area, its use to bridge the split levels of the garden in an almost seamless way. with built in seats and subdued lighting it looks back at the house but also out over seperate planting areas.
A short flight of steps meanders down to a lower level slate path walking you past lucious beds that will grow into a mass of colour and smells each summer. The picture opposite is taken from the Houses patio doors.
The picture opposite shows how the severly sloping nature of this garden has been hidden amongst the structure and the gently sloping beds.
The difference between the patio and lower slate path is almost a metre in height but it appears not to be so.
This is now a garden of shapes and curves, areas to socialise, quiet corners to read, open expanses of lawn and corners of colour and lush vegetation.
The plants used are either perennial or shrubs and trees, meaning no annual planting and in a few years as the plants spread and fill, the only chore will be to decide which plants to thin out and prune back.
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