GARDEN PROJECTS
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Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Value: £50,000
To enhance the historic setting of this property, all the lawns were reseeded and a new croquet lawn was created. Mature Yew hedging was planted to enclose the existing reflection pond, and the coping stones were replaced.
Banbury, Oxfordshire
Designer: James Alexander-Sinclair of Terra Firma Landscapes
www.terrafirmalandscapes.com
Value: £100,000
The most dramatic feature of this new garden must be the hardwood walkway built around an existing mill pond, with its clean lines and simple detailing. Other new features such as sweeping gravel beds with integral planting, a new stream meandering through grassland and spirals of Verbena are set amidst new borders, stone terraces and steps.
The Garden of Celebration
Malvern Spring Gardening Show 2006 RHS Silver Medal Winner
Designer: Phillip Osman Garden Design in association with Swindon College Garden Design students
www.philliposman.com
This garden was commissioned for the Prospect Hospice in Wroughton as a celebration of life. A place where patients, staff and visitors could enjoy a moment of solitude with seating amidst pergolas, spiralling paving and colour themed planting. Once the show was over the garden was dismantled and re-erected at the Hospice.
Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire
Designer: TRees Associates
www.treesassociates.com
Value: £300,000
Totally sweeping the existing mature infrastructure away provided a clean canvas for the creation of this stunning central fountain and parterre, set within Cotswold stone walls and beech hedging. The existing sunken garden was also recreated with bold new lines provided by the regraded grass terraces and mature tree planting. This design is full of interesting features such as the raised mirror pools set within box hedge cubes, requiring meticulous attention to detail.
Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Designer: TRees Associates
www.treesassociates.com
Value: £53,000
A formal rose and herbaceous parterre is the central feature of this new garden. New grass steps lead down graded slopes to more remote areas with sculptures set in long grass and woodland areas. New Cotswold stone walls, stone terraces and pleached hedges provide the structure for this stunning design.
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Designer: TRees Associates
www.treesassociates.com
Value: £180,000
Again, the existing infrastructure was swept away, and two gardens are combined into one. Beautiful, informal herbaceous planting in a setting of remodelled ground profiles, including an amphitheatre mound, with stone terracing and steps, lawns and wild flower meadows.
Wantage, Oxfordshire
Designer: Indigo Landscapes Architects
www.indigolandscape.co.uk
Value: £40,000
In preparation for a new Estate entrance, farmland was turned over to native structure planting to create enclosure and vistas.
Illmington, Oxfordshire
Designer: Elizabeth Banks Associates
Now Robert Myers Associates Landscape Architecture
www.robertmyers-associates.co.uk
Value: £234,000
The creation of a sweeping parterre designed to be viewed from the upper storey windows, together with the renovation of the walled gardens, the construction of a timber and turf bridge and the extension of mature Yew hedging.
Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Designer: Illman Young Landscape Design
www.illman-young.com
Value: £84,000
Dramatic levels in this garden called for total remodelling to create an environmental pond, steep planted slopes with steps and formal new terraces.
Longborough, Gloucestershire
Designer: Whitton Associates
Value: £60,000
A redesign and extension of an old Cotswold property created a series of new courtyards and spaces which were planted with herb gardens, trained climbers, mature pleached trees, specimen tree and shrub planting, a croquet lawn and yew hedging.