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Offshoots, Inc.A beautiful escape in your edible garden. Fruit trees create a privacy screen around a cedar pergola and raised vegetable beds.
BE Landscape DesignAfter a tear-down/remodel we were left with a west facing sloped front yard without much privacy from the street, a blank palette as it were. Re purposed concrete was used to create an entrance way and a seating area. Colorful drought tolerant trees and plants were used strategically to screen out unwanted views, and to frame the beauty of the new landscape. This yard is an example of low water, low maintenance without looking like grandmas cactus garden.
Kit Peel GardensThis large garden in the idyllic village of Mickley was striking for the beauty of its surroundings. With views over arable fields and a hillside crossed with woodland and a distant barn, the secret to this design was always going to how to find a way to ‘borrow’ the landscape and bring it into the garden.
The house is newly built and the garden was a blank canvas, with the benefit of a large wall usually found in stately home kitchen gardens and a southerly aspect. Design challenges lay in its sloping nature (rising upwards nearly two metres over fifty metres and with a cross-fall), underground services to be avoided and the off-set position of the house to the rear garden.
A design brief included water, a new area beyond the greenhouse, planting areas and an extended terrace and vegetable garden. The planting was to be naturalistic and beneficial to wildlife.
Inspired by the site, the idea of creating a ‘meadow garden’ evolved. We looked at forms and features in meadows and how to bring them into this design in a formal way. As part of this thinking, we were mindful of using the soil that would be dug up to create a water feature and create level areas on the site. A land form was the clear solution. This is a large circular feature, which acts as a journey point from the house up through the garden and will contain a feature sundial, surrounded by tall grass planting.
From this central point, one can either follow a mown path through meadow planting, and alongside a shrub and tree area, up to a gazebo, or head back to the house. Here we sited a large rill with beds alongside. The rill is stepped for wildlife and newly planted with waterlillies. Stepping stones cross the water, creating a path from the vegetable garden to the new seating area beyond the greenhouse site. A large formal border has been created alongside the estate beautiful boundary wall, ready for planting, whilst the neighbours garden will be screened by a newly planted beech hedge and cornus trees.
*Images show the garden newly built, July 2018. New images to follow when the planting matures and garden buildings installed.
Landscape Projects, Inc.The potting shed and vegetable garden (featured in a spring issue of Country Living Gardens magazine. © Melissa Clark Photography. All rights reserved
Stefano Marinaz Landscape ArchitecturePlant list:
Malus 'Evereste' pleached tree - 3.8m high, 1.9 m clear stem, 1.4m wide, 5 tiers underplanted with Sarcococca confusa,
Molinia ‘Karl Foerster’,
Actaea simplex ‘Atropurpurea group’,
Hackonechloa macra,
Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’,
Astrantia major 'Claret',
Aster divaricatus,
Period: Late September
Ann Brooke Landscape DesignUnpeeled cedar pergola with wisteria, Loll chairs, a custom farmhouse table, and a Wittis stove
Photo by Michael Fredericks
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