Sunny patio and outdoor seating
Our clients on this project wanted spaces for entertaining, an area to grow fruit and veg and a lawn.
The new layout places the garden at a 45° angle to the house to create the illusion of greater width and depth.
Directly outside the back door a raised bed clad with decorative encaustic tile serves as a focal point from the house and adds year round colour to the garden.
To the front of the raised bed a porcelain patio adjoins the house, from which two porcelain tiled pathways lead down the garden.
The left-hand pathway passes beneath two black powder coated steel arches and down to join a large porcelain patio in the bottom left corner of the space.
To the left of the path is deep planting bed with several corten weathered steel decorative screens installed along the fence line. Trees along the rear boundary improve screening and privacy. A corten steel water table and large corten steel cube planter create a focal point.
Another path leads from the main patio towards the back right corner of the space, passing beneath three black steel arches and then turning right to lead back towards the house.
To the right of this path we have installed a ‘grow your own’ area comprising a greenhouse, three large railway sleeper raised beds and a compost and water butt. The pathway terminates at the small patio adjoining the house, with a small lawn at the centre of the garden.
The planting scheme features a background of evergreen shrubs mixed with perennials in zingy limes, oranges, purples and whites to give year-round interest.