greencube garden and landscape design, UK

Here we have mixed textural paddlestones with smooth porcelain paving and hardwood decking. This garden completed last year is maturing nicely with a little help from our aftercare team. Dicksonia tree ferns add a structural/tropical flavour, underplanted with our favourite Hakoechloa grass. Garden In Sevenoaks Garden in Bexley We've also been out planting bulbs this week including this newly completed garden in Bexley, which includes a Solus Bio ethanol firebowl which sits within a fireplace creating a wonderful focal point and gorgeous seating area, surrounded by large troughs planted with perennials and ornamental grasses. I'll return in the spring to get some photos of this wonderful garden.

greencube are loving the quartz paddlestones from CED (stone suppliers) , we have used them as a cobbled paving at Hampton Court Flower show back in July 2010, we have seen them in gabions at RHS Hyde Hall and greencube have now specified them to create a retaining wall on two interlocking large curves, very exciting, very organic and a new use of material! It looks like a modern dry stone wall, very linear in pattern, its tied into a concrete block wall. I'm looking forward to seeing this project completed. It's also great micro habitat, lots of little holes and cracks for beetles, solitary bees and hibernating insects. Greencube garden at Hampton Court 2010, using Quartz paddlestones   Paddlestones in gabions at RHS Hyde Hall