greencube garden and landscape design, UK

We love a challenge and here we were faced with a blank canvas and an awful modern brick wall that spoilt the beauty of this wonderful building in Leigh in Kent. The Barn should be celebrated as it truly is a building of amazing beauty, history and period architecture. This is our second design in Leigh, a very pretty, picturesque village near to Tonbridge. Context was important here, I wanted to be sympathetic to the property and reverted to kent ragstone for the retaining wall, our local stone, creating a large terrace with surrounding planting, softening the hardscapes. The front of the barn (seen below) which originally had just gravel is now seated and softened within its landscape with a chunky oak (painted black) framed border, planted with vibrant Acers, Penstemon, Alliums and Buxus. Gemma @ greencube maintains this garden on a monthly basis, keeping it looking great. This is year 1, I'll return next spring and summer to get some more images. Setting out fo...

I've been out in the last few weeks taking more photos of our gardens, its easy to see why I love my job, I hope you can see this in my excitement and passion delivered in my images, designs and blogs. Planting combinations are very important, here we have mixed our favourite Rose of the Year, Rosa 'Gertrude Jekyll' mixed with Panicum (ornamental grass) and underplanted with Erigeron , enclosed within a large border of taxus baccata (yew) that skirts a driveway entrance. Keep dead heading all summer and reap the rewards. Our greencube maintenance gardener Gemma looks after this garden in Sevenoaks. A modern and traditional palette of plants to tie in with the 'old coach house' dating back to 1836 with a 21st century spin. Here we have mounted pots on top of old coach house brick platforms and installed statuesque obelisks. We have also placed a copy Lutyens bench which was designed at the same time as the property was built. Sir Edwin Lutyen...