greencube garden and landscape design, UK

I've had another busy week, designing a garden for a family in Tunbridge Wells as well as some interesting visits to new clients and existing clients. I have ordered our first autumn planting palettes for September - 1st  job in Mersham, Ashford the other in Hartfield in the Ashdown Forest  and met a client at a nursery to choose a few key specimen plants for a garden in Sevenoaks, so a busy busy week. greencube's Sculptural Log Store Who would want a a standard log store when they can have one of these? A log store for my wood burner that keeps me warm in winter in my working studio doubles as a sculpture in my meadow garden.  I found an image on pinterest, tweeked it a bit and had it made by a local metal fabricator. Clayton and Neil of Quest Landscapes kindly delivered it to me yesterday and concreted the holding post, here's the finished item, a big thank you to Darrin Williams who made it up with mild steel, its already rusting as hoped after the l...

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...