greencube designs a pocket garden

greencube is in for a very busy Autumn, planting up gardens in Offham, Sevenoaks, Ashford, Trottiscliffe, Seal and Hartfield. We are planting one garden each week as well as continuing with existing and new clients designs.

We are taking new enquiries for January/February 2017.

planting
You need to keep very fit to sustain the workload of a planting day, offloading lots of plants from the lorries, setting out and planting is a hard task but transforms the spaces immediately. Gemma and I can clock up over 20,000 steps on each day and walk the equivalent of 11/12 km in one day's planting. But we love it...

Lots of our gardens designed this year are being completed this autumn. So we are super excited to see them finally completed.

new garden

cantilevered
we love a cantilevered step and here we have transformed this tiny garden into a modern, easy to maintain social space. The steps are cantilevering out of the deck to create a wonderful journey to the lower garden. This garden is in a small courtyard space in Sevenoaks, we have re-named this one the 'pocket garden'. Our clients said "We love the garden so thank you very much "

this garden has zero threshold, a smooth transition from inside to outside, we have linked to their new wooden floors and dark grey window, connecting and fusing the two.

using a simple repeat palette of materials. Here we have incorporated a practical lift up top to the bench to store their garden stuff

we have also included three re-circulating water blades that cascade into a dark grey pebble mulch, the lower area has been laid with astro turf, fitted to represent a carpet rather than a lawn.

the oak sleepers are painted to tie in with the window frame, creating robust steps to lower area

connecting the garden with the house interior

very few plants - Dicksonia, Hosta, Polystichum and Buxus - an easy palette to maintain.

cantilevered bench suspended from boundary wall.

here's how it looked during the start of the extension build:

garden designed by greencube

garden constructed by langdale landscapes

garden planted by greencube

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

Practical storage solutions in our gardens in Tunbridge Wells and Folkestone

Storage in a garden is a common requirement but often forgotten or positioned too far away for practical use. Greencube have installed solutions in 2 of our gardens this year without the need for an ugly shed. The built in seating has doubled up as a great practical storage solution so that the cushions, hand tools and firewood for the brazier are readily available.

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.

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