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greencube finally finishes courtyard garden for new property in Caterham

Me and Harriet finished painting the walls in this garden last week, Gemma visited on Monday to carry out maintenance and I returned Wednesday evening to take some photos. Team effort.

Our client is absolutely delighted with her new garden, we have played with scale and placed large oversized pots planted up with architectural leaves of Fatsia japonica, mixed with tree ferns (Dicksonia antartica) with a focal point feature evergreen tree Eriobotrya japonica

The Fireplace is a rendered polymer with granite hearth and bio ethanol feature fire bowl.

A great reward to our very busy week:

visiting new clients in Aylesford, Sevenoaks, Eynsford and Caterham
presentation of a new design in reigate
survey carried out at Wildernesse Golf Club
visited existing gardens under construction in Sevenoaks and Beckenham
out to tender on a new garden in Sevenoaks
two small garden designs completed this week in Reigate and Worcester Park, Surrey

all totalling a 60 plus hour rewarding working week.
now for a relaxing weekend













design - greencube
project monitoring - greencube
hard landscaping - Oakleigh manor
softscapes - greencube
painting - greencube
maintenance - greencube



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