One of our favourite plants for difficult shady spots is Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’. It works particularly well at the base of hedges or trees where the foliage really stands out. Grown for its foliage that appears in the early spring and stays until the winter sets in. In the spring dainty blue forget-me-not type flowers appear on slender stems.
Plant in drifts for maximum impact.
View from the Pond
New for 2013 we are going to be introducing photo realistic rendering for our garden design projects to truly communicate the potential of our designs. Here are some examples for a design that we are building this year.
We’ve been designing in 3D for nearly 10 years now and the quality of today’s software is light years from when we started out. Look out for more new images soon but to wet your appetite here are two more – click on the pictures for larger versions.
Contrasting Materials
Bench to Patio
Happy New Year to you!
We’re going to be making lots of changes to the website in the next few months – there’s lots of new designs to show plus other stuff too!
Please let us know if you find any problems with the new site.
This is a design for a courtyard garden in Cardiff. Click on the picture above to launch the presentation video.
This garden swept around two sides of a house in St Mellons, Cardiff. A new conservatory had been added to the house and the client wanted a total reworking of the garden. We designed a sequence of crescent shaped curved layers to provide a set of flowing forms around the house.
A patio sighted for the late afternoon and early evening sunshine was raised to catch the last rays of the sun and adjacent was a small wildlife pond with an integrated and lit cascade.
The full page for this garden can be found on our Design Gallery
If you would like our help with your garden then please Contact Us
Here’s the first of the new designs that we completed in 2011. This garden for a couple approaching retirement reworked the space after a new conservatory was added to the house. Using aged natural stone materials to blend with the architecture of the house and surrounding conservation area the design provided a relaxing, low maintenance space.
The full page of the design can be found on our Design Gallery
If you think that we could help you with your garden then please Contact Us
Here are a few sneak peaks at some of the gardens that are being built and planted this year
We can design for any size garden or space to suit any style. Please Contact Us to see how we can help you.
We grow a number of plants in small quantities to use in our clients gardens (and our own too!). Mainly we grow varieties that are difficult to get from suppliers or that you can only get at certain times of the year. This means that we can plant them as part of a project even if they are not in season
We also buy and pot up plants that are only available at certain times (e.g. Snowdrops) so that we can include them in clients planting schemes any time during the year. We do this as part of our Planting Projects as well as part of our Seasonal Maintenance Services
Here in Wales the snow has gone for the time being (fingers crossed!). The snowdrops are starting to appear. We put over a thousand snowdrops in clients gardens last year – they must be planted “in the green” – i.e. as plants rather than bulbs if you want them to be successful.
We buy both single and double British snowdrops in early Spring and can plant them as part of our Seasonal Maintenance Services
If you want some snowdrops this year or we can help you with your garden please Contact Us
This gently curving design for a large suburban garden in St Mellons near Cardiff worked really well. Originally a single space we created a garden with multiple sunny and shady spaces, making the most of the mature specimens that were already in the garden.
To see more of this design visit its page here
If we could help you with your garden please Contact Us