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Rear garden development

Our part of this work was completed in late Autumn / early Winter of 2004. The clients had moved in to the house a while ago but concentrated on the house rather than the garden. Having seen certain features in another garden (which is in this portfolio), they wanted to incorporate a firepit and pond into an otherwise unplanned but low maintenance garden. The clients also liked the idea of a garden split into sections, mainly by planting and eventually this is what they will have. They wanted a water feature to be extensive but not too loud.

I came up with three different initial possible layouts for the garden, one of which we used. This was splitting the levels to provide a lower utility area and a higher lawn which would be more level than the existing. We then adapted that idea and came up with what you see. The photographs do not clearly show that the old garden actually sloped gradually down towards the house. The trellis, steps and paving were already there.

The first photograph shows the overgrown garden as it was and the first step was cutting everything back hard and then using a combination of digger and track barrow to strip the old lawn and change the levels.

It was required that the pond edge could be walked on from the front as well as mown easily, hence the slabs set flat there.

A filtration system is hidden behind the raised watefall.