Current Brentwood Project

Lovely Hornbeams in the Rear Garden

My client has recently moved into a lovely property in Brentwood. It has a long 50 metre garden which stretches to the park and wood at the far end . The garden has received little attention of late, and has very few features or planting other than the two lovely hornbeams in the final third of the garden.

View down the garden to the house

My client has a family of six with teenage children and two dogs on the way !
He would like a pond, an area for growing vegetables, a shed and a garden in keeping with the woodland feel of the area.

The first thing I wanted to do was increase the size of the patio in keeping with the footprint of the house and I added a curved extension to the corner consisting of gravel with a brick edge. On this I added a pergola and a raised bed with a built in barbecue. 

View from the house

An important design feature was to improve the view down the garden and give it some width.  This was achieved by designing a serpentine lawn with a large bed of mixed planting on the left hand side to reduce the view down the garden to the end.






The path is made from reclaimed bricks and curves its way around the garden. There are beds on either side but the last third of the garden is meadow grass and at the very end is the shed and timber compost store.








Coming back down towards the house there will be a circular seat around the large hornbeam by the pond . The path will continue across the pond on a simple wooden bridge.

Close to the house will be the vegetable beds.

My client has also asked me to improve the look of the front garden and add some planting.

I have created some low curved beds without reducing the turning areas and suggested  some circular patterns in the driveway which lead visitors to the front door.
Planters near the house will also make the front of the house  a little softer.

Just need the rain to stop so we can get on with it now !