The garden at the Glasshouse needed to be designed around mature trees, a large pond and a swimming pool, whilst also complimenting the striking architectural home. The garden needed to create a journey around the house, creating different vistas and areas of interest. The ground floor has floor to ceiling windows on front and back aspects, so the garden had to be picture perfect when viewed from the house.
Chris designed the garden and our good friends at Johnstone Landscapes undertook the build, completing it with such amazing attention to detail.
The design uses a curved cantilevered deck that hangs over the now renovated pond. The stonework was reconfigured to create planting pockets to make it feel more natural. The curved deck is the perfect seating area to look across the pond, whilst also creating a large sweeping pathway into the garden from the kitchen.
A woodland matrix planting scheme has been installed under the mature trees that will knit together over time, filled with grasses, ground cover and spring and summer flowers.
A bespoke curved Iroko bench (which was built by Chris and his team) and Corten fire pit form a great evening hang out spot in the bottom of the garden, with views of a wildflower bank and large planting beds.
The front of the house previously had a ‘Zen’ boulder garden in front of the large windows, which has now been replaced with a shade planting scheme and large Tree Ferns (Dicksonia Antarctica). A water feature runs the full length of the bed and creates the perfect backdrop for the planting.
The driveway is lined with Beech (Fagus sylvatica) topiary ‘Bee Hives’ and block planting of Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’ grasses, making a modern entrance that works perfectly with the architectural home.
Boulders were reused from excavations on the site and used for steps, retaining banks or simply straddling pathways as a natural design feature.
