three completed greencube gardens visited last week all looking great...

1st Garden In Leigh, Kent

I visited our clients in Leigh, Kent last week and their garden is looking really good. This was completed last year and has been maturing nicely.

We love hydrangeas and use them for mid to late summer flower, here the Hydrangea paniculata 'Vanille Fraise' are looking amazing, they remind me of a mr whippy ice-cream.

Mixed with Heuchera and Pennisetum.

Now some of our clients think that Hydrangeas are an old fashion plant that they saw in their gran's garden, but here planted in bold swathes interplanted with grass makes for a modern border.

Here we designed vertical green oak timbers interplanted with Miscanthus and Persicaria.

But I feel the most eye catching plant in this garden in July is the Helenium planted in bold swathes down through a bank with oak platforms.

2nd Garden In Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Photos taken by Ben at Creative Landscapes who is now working on the front garden which we hope to plant in the autumn. Here we planted 4 varieties of Hydrangeas mixed with filler plants geranium and erigeron.

This garden is also in its second summer.

3rd Garden In Bidborough, Kent

Here's the rear garden in its second year, although it was an incredibly bright day so not the best light for photography, we are now working with our clients to carry on the theme in the front garden.

Here we have designed a border that wraps around the main terrace and semi encloses the space to make it feel welcoming.

Here we have chosen a deep claret coloured Penstemon to work with the dark grey granite.

We have included benches with lift up storage beneath the seats to store cushions and garden tools.

Gemma our gardener visits regularly to maintain this garden.

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Sculpture in the garden, greencube designs a sculptural ball garden

I'm still out taking photos of all the gardens that have been constructed in the last year and last night I visited our clients in Borough Green, Kent to photograph this garden. We designed the terracing around this very beautiful home and picked up on the existing buff coloured stone detailing that formed the sills and frames around the doors and windows. A complimentary colour of yellow granite was finally chosen (Yellow Granite paving from CED) and a sculptural border of yellow granite balls (from Rock Unique) underplanted with Ilex crenata balls and Libertia grandiflora. Oak benches and oak arches have also been included and some division of zones created by deck laid flush with granite. This scheme fuses well with the house and setting. I will return in August to take further photos when the garden furniture is in place and hopefully get some night shots, lighting not yet fully completed at time of visit. Greencube planted this garden in two phases, the trees, ro

But my favourite is most definitely the Telegraph Garden

Designed by Cleve West, a magical space with walls retaining at seat level, so wherever you walk you can pause, sit and enjoy, I managed to gain access to Cleve's garden and even had a brief chat with him. I loved it even more once in the space. The star plant at the show for me is most certainly Dianthus cruentus, with its crimson flowers which looked wonderful in amongst the cotswold stone, with its elegant stems and deep red flower. The statuesque columns, the wonderful dry stone walls and planting that had space, looked natural and certainly did not look like it was only planted a week ago!!!! The play with water with the water pipes and channel through the garden with stone stepping stones, all beautifully executed and inspirational.

greencube's garden in Langton Green, near Tunbridge Wells features in Dutch Magazine this month

Our large garden in Langton Green designed back in 2010 features in a Dutch magazine for April - Groei & Bloei , I had to use google translator to work out what they said: dutch "door efficient gebruik te maken van niveauverschillen ontstaan op een klein oppervlak twee terrassen, gescheiden door een prachtige plantenbak, die tevens dienst doet als regleuning van de zitbank." literally translates to: "through efficient use of level differences arising on a small surface two terraces, separated by a beautiful planter, who also serves as backrest of the sofa." my dutch is not too good! Here are some more photos of this garden:

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