Soft drifts of grasses and dry planting were the perfect foil for this super modern Channel 4 Grand Designs project in Norfolk. Stretching out from a new circular lawn we created areas of textured planting to blur the boundary between the garden and the natural environment that surrounds it. Spots of colour both compliment and contrast with the concrete and glass whilst the dry garden retains its structure and form long after the Summer peak.

The dry planting included Panicums virgatum ‘Prairie Sky’, bulbosum and rotstrahlbusch, Glaucium corniculatum, Lychnis coronaria ‘Alba’, Papaver rupifragum and Verbascum chaixii.

We set out to create a garden which would complement and enhance the elegant new extension conceived for this listed Georgian house. The client brief was for a an oasis of planting from the lower level to the far end of their east-facing plot and to reconsider the arrival experience at the front.

The planting at the lower level included Kniphofia Rooperi, Ohiopogon planiscapus ‘Kokuryu’, Cerinthe major and Soleirolia soleirolii ‘Aurea’. Further up we looked to create planting that felt natural but colourful so included Oenothera lindheimeri ‘Whirling Butterflies’, Lunaria annu, Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’, Papaver Patty’s Plum, and some Cenolophium denudatum. New trees to obscure the view scattered amongst the planting included Malus ‘Wintergold’, Cornus kousa chinensis and some domes of Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea’.

Tucked away in the Coln Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this garden had to be completely re-landscaped following building works to construct a new ancillary building. Making the most of beautiful views from the garden and grounds, connecting the new building to the old, installing new terraces and creating multiple new areas of planting were required; wooded shaded areas, gravel gardens, a new lawn and an extended Kitchen Terrace.

Planting for the new sun-drenched terrace included Pennisetum alopecuroides

Following the renovation of the interiors of this elegant Georgian townhouse, the client invited us to re-consider the overgrown and neglected garden. We designed two ‘rooms’ on split levels, one for informal entertaining and one for lying back and relaxing.

Our client wanted to transform a 45metre border that runs in front of the house whose origins reach back nearly 400 years. The beds stretch from areas of fully exposed sun to deep shade and therefore called for a wide range of perennial and seasonal planting that could be tied together with structural elements.