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Garden Under Construction in Sevenoaks

Here I have applied oversized pots placed on brick platforms and large obelisks placed within simple border planting, complimented with midnight slate paving to work with the warm colours of the brick. The pots contain over 500 bulbs, I'll return in the spring to take more photos.

Greencube are project monitoring this job visiting weekly.

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Here 'Urb' the greencube cooper van, our reliable and resourceful team member, gets in on the photo on Christmas Eve, almost matching the obelisks in colour!

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Garden hardscapes completed in Hawkinge

Here's a lovely email (copy) from our clients in Hawkinge, Clayton at Quest Landscapes has just completed the hardscapes, planting to be carried out in the spring.

Hi Mandy

We have had Clayton landscape the garden and he did a fantastic job. We have just finished importing top soil and mushroom compost and it is now almost ready for planting in the spring.

The design is fantastic and we are extremely happy with the way it looks. I must admit being sceptical about losing the lawn but it was an excellent decision and we love the finished look.

Thanks very much for your lovely design, it was worth every penny and we would never have come up with such an elegant garden without your help.

Calvin and Lou xx

Steed Construction place house on the market - Hartfield, East Sussex

We have been working with a small developer in the last year and they have just placed one of their properties on the market www.campbellsproperty.co.uk . Greencube designed the garden on behalf of Steed Construction.. A tricky space with the requirement of retaining walls but to avoid the feeling of oppressive walls overbearing on the house. Roomy zones have been designed to encourage outdoor enjoyment. The house and garden have been built to a very high standard. Good luck with the sale, I'm sure it will be snapped up very quickly.

photo courtesy of Campbell's Estate Agents

Here's the reflective pool

Ground too wet for lawn to be laid at time of photos taken

Work continues on for the new year with gardens to design in Wildernesse Avenue, Sevenoaks as well as a new instruction for a garden for a new house in Canterbury both large schemes.

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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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