West London Garden

The sole purpose for this project was to turn the garden into a space that the clients could socialise in and enjoy comfortably. We started with a blank slate of a garden but it had this beautiful 3m high Tudor brick wall that ran the length of the garden. We used that to our advantage, clearing the vegetation away to make it more visible, but installing vines and climbing plants to enhance the character of the wall. Two large limestone terraces bookend the space, anchored by 4 crab apple trees.

The planting was a mix of ornamental herbaceous, deciduous grasses and evergreen structure in the form of clipped mounds and domes to provide structure in the winter months. Lighting plays a key role in this garden as it’s a social space. The vegetation that surrounds the large terraces are to act as points of interest to work with the hardscape. But the generous scale of the hardscape is the key to this design.