greencube features in Achica.com

Our little courtyard garden in Caterham, completed summer of this year is becoming a little bit famous, now featured in Achica.com

An inspirational feature on extending the use of your garden into autumn with outdoor fires.

See link

http://www.achica.com/ACHICALiving/2014/10/gardens-when-its-cold-outside-curl-up-next-to-a-garden-fire/

Text taken from Achica website, compiled by Zia Allayway
Bowled over

We can just imagine kicking back on one of the sofas next to the eye-catching fire bowl in this tiny urban garden designed by Mandy Buckland of Green Cube Design. The fire is fuelled by bio ethanol, a renewable and green source of energy that produces no smoke, smell, or ashes. Held in a stainless steel urn inside the bowl, the flames provide instant heat once lit. You can find similar bowls at Planika Fire or contact Mandy for advice on how to integrate one into your garden design.

Its been a busy autumn, Gemma has been busy clearing leaf litter and tidying borders ready for winter as well as bulb planting. Next job mulching with organic compost in readiness for spring.

We have several gardens near to completion or just completed including a lovely family garden in Sevenoaks, a front garden in Tunbridge Wells and lush, tropical garden in New Barn. I'll be there poised with camera in the spring and summer of next year to hopefully capture the spirit of each.

We finished the Baufritz garden on Friday in Speldhurst, looks amazing.................

We were planting last week in Sevenoaks garden, here's the guys at Creative Landscapes extracting a Magnolia grandiflora from its pot!

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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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