Pretty garden in Wandsworth with garden office
Sunday, 09 July 2017
by caroline
This is a lovely long garden with herbaceous borders on either side. The garden is located in Wandsworth. Parts of the garden are in heavy shade a lot of the time and so this had to be taken into account when planting. The owner wanted to retain an English country garden effect but also wanted
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, Gardens Designed
Small London gardens simply improved
Thursday, 14 July 2016
by caroline
Here are some tiny London gardens that have been quickly improved and enhanced by simple use of good paving, raised beds, painted fencing, horizontal trellising. As you can see they are only just finished so in most cases have not even been planted. See the before and after shots in each case: Streatham garden design,
- Published in Gardens Designed, Gardens in Progress
An Italian garden in Clapham
Sunday, 22 May 2016
by caroline
Italian garden in Clapham This was a hard landscaped garden which was not only uncared for but also had suffered the rigours of an Alsatian puppy’s activities throughout the Spring! It was really looking more like a back yard! The owner wanted to transform it into a lighter, more private and welcoming space – in
- Published in Contemporary Planting, Gardens Designed
Classical AND contemporary garden in Wandsworth
Sunday, 01 May 2016
by caroline
This garden really only needed a facelift, but it had to be done in a sympathetic way to fit the beautiful York paving already in place and the high brick wall at the end of the garden. We built the right hand side wall and the raised beds at the front of the garden making
- Published in Gardens Designed
Red, yellow, orange, black, grey and green garden with plant list!
Tuesday, 06 October 2015
by caroline
Red and yellow and orange and black and grey and green contemporary garden Here we have the garden as it is being built – you can see the paths going in Hideous concrete wall 40 M long to be masked by espalier fruit trees This is a very large and unusual garden. It has
- Published in Contemporary Planting, Gardens Designed, Raised Vegetable Beds
Magnificent York stone steps in Wandsworth or how to improve your front drive
Sunday, 08 March 2015
by caroline
I know it is difficult to get excited by steps but once you see really beautiful ones (or were you to own them yourself) you begin to appreciate the difference they make to a property. To get them right you have to have a very skilled builder (who is cutting very thick, difficult and expensive
- Published in Del the Townscapes builder, Gardens Designed
Cobbles in a residential Clapham garden – fabulous effect!
Wednesday, 07 January 2015
by caroline
There is absolutely no point in trying to explain in exact detail how to lay cobbles in general as you can find this information on the exceptional site offered by the Paving Expert – see the link below. At the end of the page I have given rough dimensions for our specific build, but really
- Published in Gardens Designed
Garden design: Steps in Balham, Belgravia, Wandsworth, Battersea and Fulham
Thursday, 09 October 2014
by caroline
“Garden design” tends to conjure up a picture of grand designs and fanciful creativity but very often the London or urban garden designer finds themself dealing with the technical minutiae of building steps and retaining walls with obviously a good deal of paving and brickwork thrown in for good measure. Here I deal with steps.
- Published in Gardens Designed
How wrong can a London garden designer be? My Balham client knew best!
Wednesday, 08 October 2014
by caroline
Cladding How wrong can a designer be?! My Balham client knew best! The original retaining wall in this sloping garden was nearer to the house (the owners having built out into the garden for a big kitchen extension) and so to create a patio area we had to push back the garden quite considerably behind
- Published in Gardens Designed, Gardens in Progress
Burntwood Lane, Wandsworth front drive walling – days in the life of Del the builder
Sunday, 16 February 2014
by caroline
We’ve had a terrible time! Guess why? Well the weather of course. Del, our builder, has had to be pulled off his work all of last week because he couldn’t render or point but let me tell you where he has got to in the week before. He finished the back barbeque area and has
- Published in Del the Townscapes builder, Gardens Designed
Clapham garden, work in progress. My astroturf garden! Designed by Caroline Garland
Saturday, 26 October 2013
by caroline
This garden is now complete, see the finished garden here » This was the state of the garden as we found it. It was a tiny garden at the back of a beautiful new development. The fence to the left was sitting on a wall and on the other side was the public pavement. The
- Published in Gardens Designed, Gardens in Progress
Look what you can do with Hawthorn!
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
by caroline
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, Gardens Designed, Gardens Visited