… like snow business. And for garden designers, snow literally means no business. The drifts which have covered most of the UK for weeks are starting to thaw, and about time too. This is supposedly our worst winter for 30 years – I was a high school student during 1980 and remember walking miles to school past banks of snow. (Although personally I remember the winter if 1984-85 being worse, with the snow hanging about weeks into...

We were asked by our clients to liven up a turfed front garden and incorporate into the design a new driveway, which we also installed. The design featured curved planting beds and ornamental pathways of plum slate, which complemented the blue and grey Indian sandstone block paved path and drive. Planting included Phormium ‘Yellow Wave’, Buxus sempervirens, Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’, Stipa tenuissima, Helleborus...

We were asked by the client to refurbish a garden he’d had designed a few years previously, which had become overgrown. We cleared the site and redesigned a number of planting areas, which we planted, and specified and planted a woodland glade filled with Bluebells, Hostas, Ferns, Primulas, Anemones and Foxgloves. The existing garden was heavily dominated by shrubs, and we suggested adding more perennials for a softer, more ‘cottage...

The client wanted to reclaim extra parking space from his rear garden, while still maintaining an attractive garden and entertaining area. We suggested a scheme accomplished the brief, and included feature oval lawn and sandstone paved seating area. < Return to the gallery.

In this modern garden we solved the problem of a lack of space by combining entertaining space with a screen for the car parking area. The client was happy to lose the existing lawn, and required a contemporary space for entertaining friends, with planting areas for dramatic specimen plants and containers. The “before” shot of the garden is shown below: < Return to the...