greencube garden and landscape design, UK

 Multiple zoned garden in Blackheath, with charred decking and oak bespoke benches Creating cozy corners to relax  Designed on multiple levels with rusting steel corten steps and an oak bridge to link two zones with a sunken planted border with chimney flues used as pots  Hand picked specimen plants softening and wrapping around each zone Corten gate installed to side access a play on Trompe-l'oeil in the corner reflecting light and creating an optical illusion of a much bigger space lighting installed into the charred deck reflecting across the corten steps a play on texture and scale throughout a small family table and chairs for alfresco dining ` oak bridge links the two zones Specimen Osmanthus for scent, height and sculpture OFYR BBQ  Textural balls of Pittosporum  at the junction swings tucked down in the lower area garden design greencube garden project monitor greencube hard landscaping Clayton at Quest planting greencube aftercare greencube

I had a sneaky preview of the RHS Chelsea flower show grounds yesterday and found some lovely planting combinations, exciting sculptures and cor-ten in abundance.... Nic Howard design and Langdale Landscapes construction -  David Harber garden featuring some wonderful sculptures. I also spotted lots of cor-ten steel and cor-ten coloured planting!!! Paul Martin's garden: Here's a cor-ten wall also greencube are so on trend we are currently installing cor-ten steel into a garden in North Norfolk, currently under construction,  SJB landscaping doing a fantastic job. We have had sheets of cor-ten cut to create a path, in wedge shapes divided by oak sleepers, mixing this with black limestone and corten troughs. Here's the 3d views and part of the garden under construction, the cor-ten has not developed its desired patina, but each week it will change and mature. Watch this space for our finished garden

Greencube features in Review of the Year, best designs for 2011 in the Garden Design Journal, our third consecutive year. Our wonderful garden in Chislehurst featured in Review of the year, highlighted for planting design in combination with cor-ten steel panels. A dominant mix of predominantly orange and purple flowering plants. www.greencubelandscapes.co.uk/portfolio/portfoliochislehurst.html This garden was completed back in Spring 2011 with the unpredictable hot dry spring, the plants perhaps did not get the best start. I have since been back this summer to photograph the garden and in the Autumn to plant bulbs. I will return to photograph in the Spring 2012 by which time the plants will be establishing nicely, knitting together and we are expecting a wonderful display of Tulips and Alliums to add to our great collection of perennials and ornamental grasses.