Red, yellow, orange, black, grey and green garden with plant list!

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

Wandsworth garden – finished!

Here is a  South London garden, based in Wandsworth, needing quite a bit of work doing! The house itself has been beautifully developed and the young couple, with small baby, have now decided it is time to sort out the garden, after the builders’ rubble.  They are north-west facing which is not ideal as the

Wandsworth garden – mess to mini paradise

This is a south facing garden in Wandsworth, south London.  The house was having a back extension put onto it and the garden needed a complete redesign – albeit relatively simple, but effective.  The client wanted to keep an area at the back for raised vegetable beds, a lawn, various shrubs and a couple of pretty

Raised beds in Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Chelsea!

  Look at these wonderful raised beds!  A raised bed in Wimbledon made out of rendered and painted brick, a raised bed in Wandsworth made out of dark stained railway sleepers, a raised bed in Chelsea made out ouf heavy timbers and one at Kew Gardens made out of stone slabs.  They are a wonderful way of gardening in a small space, showing off

Contemporary Wandsworth garden – nearly there

Take a look at my last blog to see how well this garden has come along. It is now nearly finished. You can see the raised vegetable beds, but so far no vegetables! The two areas of lawn have been laid. The hut has been painted black to give a beach effect and we have

Contemporary Wandsworth garden with raised vegetable beds

Caroline Garland, Garden Designer! We found this south facing garden in quite a state.  It had had a long winter of discontent, the shrubs were sad and overgrown and our client wanted something more contemporary and easy to keep (it had been a football pitch for her boys over the years) – she also wanted

Garden designer’s gallery of photos

Caroline Garland, garden designer, has for some time now been designing gardens in London and the South.  Please take a look at her “Gallery” where you can see she has a very solid base of knowledge and experience.   Peter Garland, her husband, has been a landscape contractor for 30 years and until very recently was based in Belgravia