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Landscaping a Small Garden near Tunbridge Wells

The brief from our client was to create a low maintenance garden that also had a real wow factor.  She works long hours and when she is home she wants to enjoy the garden, not spend hours maintaining it.  


The Story

Her other criteria was to have a space to entertain, so the tricky part of the design was trying to fit it all in to quite a small area, but we like a challenge! We drew her a plan of our proposed design and we were very pleased when she chose us. 

Before we could start transforming the garden we had to clear it and take out a circular patio, which had been bedded in to very thick concrete. A lot of sweat and many hours later, the space was ready.

An arbour divided the garden and we would have liked to remove this to create one larger space, except a beautiful mature Wisteria was growing up it, so we left it.

This left us with a garden of 2 areas.  The patio nearest the house was too small for a table and chairs so we made a deck in the furthest part, softened with 2 corner planters and one of our trademark circular planting pods.  We installed lights in to the deck as well as spotlights aimed at feature plants to bring the area to life for evening entertaining.

The budget didn’t extend to changing the patio and so we cleaned it, and to add interest took out 3 slabs and built 3 small raised beds in their place.  We also added a feature arch to join the 2 parts of the garden and trained the Wisteria so that it will grow over it.  We also installed spotlights within the arch.  The last aspect was a path running from the patio to the deck and on to the gate at the back of the garden.

So this was a dramatic transformation of a small garden that was not only functional but also looked spectacular once it had been planted up and the finishing touches added.

Another happy client.