CASE STUDY - COUNTRY & FAMILY GARDENS
Northamptonshire Family Garden (Built Spring 2022)
The Brief
The request was to design a garden for the whole family to use and enjoy. They were looking for more interesting views from the extended kitchen / living area and attractive, practical areas to draw them outside and use the space.
The Outcome
The patio outside the main living space was upgraded, creating inviting, new places to sit and relax.
The garden itself was a good size but fairly featureless aside from the childrens play equipment.
A bespoke corner structure was designed to accommodate swings and a reading nook as well as supporting scented climbing plants. Positioned next to this to catch the evening sun is a new patio and pergola to create a BBQ, dining and entertaining area.
The old apple tree remained a key feature, to hang their hammocks as well as open lawn for the children to run around.
Elsewhere, colourful, low touch planting creates seasonal and evergreen structure was used to create year round interest.
Northamptonshire Market Town House (Built Summer 2021)
The Brief
A beautiful Georgian market town house and adjoining cottage were undergoing renovation to create an elegant
space fit for modern living. The garden had been well maintained but had lost some of its structure over the years so, the owner wanted to similarly bring it back to life. She wanted to create space for entertaining and relaxing as creating new views to enjoy from vantage points within.
Lots of colour was a must and as was incorporating the beautiful, established roses into the overall design.
The Outcome
To create a blend of classic and contemporary here we reinforced the curves and organic shapes already present in the garden and framed the new areas created with woven steel panels, elegant metal features and planting.
The house patio was made deeper to better reflect the proportions and stature of the property and the original York Stone pavers here were replaced with a beautiful, sympathetic Limestone.
The York Stone was reused on site to create a new, curved dining patio positioned amongst new planting to capture the end of day sun, accessed via a pleached tree-lined path.
Lots of new plants went into the reshaped, existing and newly cut beds including Box balls for statement structure.
On top of being able to work with such a beautiful property, it was a pleasure to watch the Client's enthusiasm
for her garden grow as the project progressed.
"I love the garden. Your design has transformed it into one of my favourite places and I could not be happier!!
I was daunted at the prospect of sorting it out, with no experience and not that much interest.
How wrong could I be?! It turns out, gardening is a joy! I have a whole new room outside and it's full of beautiful plants!
Hannah has done such a wonderful design, any fears I had about my lack of experience soon disappeared.
She was happy to talk me through every step and I really can't thank her enough.
It's such a pleasure to be in the garden, seeing it bloom and, most excitingly, using the space!"
Tara, Oundle
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Contact
E-mail: studio@hpgardendesign.co.uk
Tel: +44 7733308606
Hannah Phillips (MCIHort, MAPL) is an accredited garden designer based in Nassington, Northamptonshire serving Oundle, Stamford, Peterborough and surrounding areas, helping clients create beautiful, liveable gardens, encouraging sustainability and a place for nature.
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