A small project in Retford, Notts with the following brief:
The clients wanted to enhance the front approach to their property and reduce the time spent caring for the garden but, at the same time, maintain a 'cottage garden' feel. Access to the garden gate and the drive was an important consideration and as the garden was well stocked, it was important to save and re-plant as many plants as possible within the new garden scheme.
Plan:
- To enhance the front approach to the house by constructing gently curving pathways in natural stone, with no complex geometric shapes or patterns, thus creating line and flow throughout the garden. Visual unity will then be achieved within the planting scheme, with the emphasis on herbaceous plants to maintain the cottage garden feel.
- Reduce the garden maintenance by introducing gravel and barked areas to parts of the garden design and by careful selection of low maintenance plants to the gravel areas.
- Utilise as many existing plants as possible.
