Archive for the Tag 'garden design'

New Design – Standing Stones

Here’s one of this year’s gardens.  A modern and minimalist entertaining space to complement a fantastic conversion of a welsh farmhouse.
More pictures of the design and the finished garden can be found here
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New Design Video – Minimalist White Chic Urban Garden

Here’s the video showing the aerial views of the original design we produced for our client in Roath, Cardiff.  All our designs are produced in three dimensions allowing our clients to fully appreciate and understand our vision for their garden.  Here in Wales, where many gardens are on sloping sites, flat plans just don’t communicate [...]

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New Design – Minimalist White Chic Urban Garden

We transformed this small garden in Roath, Cardiff into a modern and contemporary entertaining space.  By removing the old garage that wasn’t really used we increased the overall space by more than a third allowing two  separate areas – dining and cooking, as well as lush specimen planting.
Contrasting materials including sawn sandstone [...]

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Site Visit – Steeply Sloping Front Garden

This is a steeply sloping, wide but shallow front garden that we planted last year.  Originally turfed and a nightmare to maintain it was a typical new build garden.  Poor soil and grass that was struggling.  We renewed the soil and stripped off the turf.  Then we used new FSC timber sleepers to create mini-tiers.  [...]

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New Design – Garden Room Garden

Here’s a garden we designed which was built and planted last year. The client had built a contemporary glass garden room and wanted a space built adjacent to it to provide a focal point and an entertaining space.  We’ll be back later in the year to take photos of it in full [...]

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New Design – High Terrace Garden

Another new design added to the website.  This one is a Newport garden that was originally two levels, unfortunately the upper level was over 3 metres higher than the patio.  The design maximised the upper level creating over 100 square metres of level lawn.  The lower patio design featured a sweeping set of steps and [...]

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New Design – Knot Garden with Holly Standards

We’re finally getting around to adding some more recent designs to our gallery.  Here’s a knot garden that we put in for a client last year along the front of their contemporary house in Cardiff.  We’re pleased how it is establishing. Knot Gardens are great as they are low maintenance (trim once or twice a [...]

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The Future of Garden Design

We believe that viewing garden designs in three dimensions massively helps our clients to understand our vision and to quickly engage with the possibilities that their garden has to offer.
This movie shows where the technology could go in the future – beautiful.

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The Modern Japanese Garden

This book presents a set of recently built gardens not seen before outside Japan.
The styles are varying but inspirational (with the odd avant garde example).  The photography is excellent and accompanying text with occasional plans and visualisations gives an insight into some of the new ideas of what can constitute a garden in a society [...]

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