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Hints of the Mediterranean
My clients usually spend a lot of their time in Spain, and wanted to feel the same vibe at home in their garden. The planting scheme needed to reflect this, albeit in an English climate, and so is full of silver leaved plants, grasses and soft purple hues, as well as bursts of orange, a colour of which my clients are particularly fond.
(build by Acorn Landscapes)
A Warm Welcome
This front driveway was transformed into a charming and welcoming place with raised brick beds against the house full of cottage garden planting including Asters, Hydrangeas and roses. The shady areas took on a more woodland feel with the addition of multi stem Tibetan Cherries underplanted with ferns, Dogwoods and Brunnera.
Plans are now well underway in the back garden…
An ‘English Country Garden’
A new house extension onto this idyllic walled garden in Marlow meant a redesign of the space, with room still for ball games and the trampoline, but also now for a dining terrace and raised beds with abundant planting. The aim was to create an English Country Garden…but in a town.
A Garden with History
This garden, attached to a beautiful listed house outside Thame, has been an ongoing project over a number of years. We began with planting around the house and the lawn, then a new pergola area, woodland garden, and kitchen terrace were added along the way.
A peaceful walled town garden
My brief here was to plant up this walled garden in Henley so that it looked its best at Regatta time, when the clients particularly liked to entertain. There’s a mass of Lavender and stunning white roses around the seating, peppered with Geum, and more subdued Skimmias , ferns and Tiarella in the shade of a large Sycamore tree. A row of pleached Holm Oaks provided privacy from the neighbours.
(build by Allen Landscaping)
A large family friendly garden
This large family friendly garden needed to have a generous patio area, lots of lawn, and lots of planting. The paths lead off to the vegetable garden, and down to the water sphere at the end. Unusually, in this case the client wanted lots of bright colours in the planting so the beds have become a wonderfully exuberant mix.
(build by JSL Landworks)
A terrace for Pizza
Here there was a beautiful view up the slope of the garden towards the woods – a landscape that the clients absolutely did not want to lose sight of, but there was no level terrace or anywhere to sit. I completely redesigned the area near the house to provide a generous terrace with pizza oven, planting beds and steps to connect this to the lawn beyond. The top part of the garden has now been planted with dwarf fruit trees.
(build by Allen Landscaping)
“We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Caz on our garden. We have a large plot and had lots of ideas on what we wanted to do with it, but struggled to get anything down on paper, never mind explain it to a builder! Not only did Caz design the perfect garden for us using our ideas, she helped find the perfect landscaper for us and pointed us in the direction of where to find the right materials too. And the result has been enjoyed by the whole family, including the pets. We could not be happier and spend so much more time in our garden making full use of it. Caz now also helps us maintain the garden and has done an amazing job of bringing our garden to life with the planting. We definitely could not have done any of it without her.”