greencube garden and landscape design, UK

The BALI awards - British Association of Landscape Institute - oscars for the landscaping industry, held at Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London last Friday 7th December 2018. We were awarded the Principal award for a Domestic Garden in the £60,000 to £100,000 category. We are absolutely delighted and carried on partying into the evening. Here we are at the awards with our clients and the fabulous landscaping team from LDP (Land Design Partnership) BALI accredited landscape team. Our winning garden front and rear  garden designed by greencube garden construction by LDP garden planting by greencube garden maintenance by greencube

We are soooo busy currently with 28 projects at various stages, me and Harriet have had a very demanding but varied week and I'm now glad for the weekend.  I thought it was time to stop, just for a minute and post a few blogs, whilst dinner is cooking!: We have been working closely with Creative Landscapes on this project, greencube have designed a layout for this garden that quite frankly you ought to be a 'billy goat' to get to the top. Sevenoaks gardens are often challenging due to the interesting topography.......  we have cut into hillsides, retained with gabions , have designed block built walls with rendered finishes and now we are completing the almost impossible. Never shy of a challenge, we have taken inspiration from Patrick Blanc's vertical living artwork and also  Thames Barrier Park with the near vertical Lonicera greenwalls. Here we have created a planted bank that will, I know look amazing! Maintenance friendly and a 'living art' installation...

GREEN WALLS This was before the popularity swept across the Uk and Europe led by Patrick Blanc and his vertical planting and now of course there are so many companies providing vertical wall installations. But back in 2006 they were not on the market and so  I had the vertical steel trays made by a local forge to my specification, I filled them with compost mixed with vermiculite and I planted the succulents 8 weeks before the Chelsea Flower Show. They rooted in and were able to be installed into our gold medal winning garden.  They were my ' living art panels' made up with a mixture of Sempervivums of different varieties supplied by Kernock Plants, it took me 3 days to plant up and were laid horizontally for 7 weeks until I was happy they had rooted in.  They required very little watering as sempervivums can live on a teaspoon of water. Its great to see the image and comment in the book. Here's a few photos of the living art panels ...