Sloping garden
Cornwall
The brief
The client had recently moved into this house and found the sloped garden lacked usable space and only had thin borders round the edge full of shrubs, with no room for perennial flowering plants. She wanted places to sit and enjoy the garden, increased space for planting and to maximise the potential for growing fruit and veg.
The design
The existing vegetable area was overgrown and the raised beds were rotting and not optimally spaced. The whole area was overhauled, with a new seating area at the top, larger raised beds, a fruit cage and cordon fruit trees. The existing patio was too small and cramped, so it was extended and a timber sleeper retaining wall added. All the beds were extended and a new bench seating added at the top of the garden - perfectly placed to watch the birds in the morning.
Standout feature
Timber sleepers were used throughout the garden as a unifying feature of the new elements. The raised beds, veg plot seating area, top bench seating area and main patio retaining wall all utilised sleepers. This natural material also served to help soften the existing hard landscaping in the garden, which was otherwise quite dark.
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