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greencube presents our new green slate wall

We've had some physically tough weeks:

planting up a new garden for a new house in Seddlescombe, Battle with 2139 trees, shrubs, herbaceous and ornamental grasses along with 2238 bulbs. A big thank you to the team: Harriet, Clayton, Callum and Susan, great effort and delivery and very happy clients!

We'll go back next spring and summer, for some photos.

We've also been working alongside Oakleigh Manor on a large scheme in Sevenoaks that greencube designed last year. We are currently working hard to get the last few planting elements completed whilst Oakleigh lay the resin bound drive. WE have  included some wonderful espalier fruit trees in the design. This is such a large scheme I have broken the planting up into 4 phases.

Sevenoaks Design:




Meanwhile, Quest Landscapes have been working on another of our projects in Sevenoaks.  I've been keen to use this product since my introduction to it late last year. This one is green slate and supplied by London Stone. Quest are doing a great job. The wall will have a crisp sawn capping installed.

textural green slate wall under construction:








We are back at Wildernesse Golf Club, Seal to design phase 2 and 3, which we are really excited about!

Creative Landscapes are about to start a new project of ours in Sevenoaks and in 2 weeks time Oakleigh Manor are starting work on a garden in Loughton.


We are incredibly busy as usual.

Loughton Design


We will be planting up a new garden next week in Hadlow. This is a new property with white render, cedar cladding and lots of glass, we have a pared back planting design to match this very modern home and have created bold textural contrasting swathes and blocks of plants. We worked closely with Karl and Chris of KS Groundwork on this project who have done a grand job and the pond and water features, fibreglassed by Pondscapes

Watch this space.......




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