greencube garden and landscape design, UK

Material choice on our new wall is working really well, oak retaining wall meets the paddlestone curvy wall and is going to have a crisp smooth sandstone top acting as a capping, keeping the weather out, detailed to bring a modern touch to what could look rather rustic. Gorgeous natural colours mainly by the ore content in the stone, it works well with the oak, which will mellow to a silvery grey. The colours are enriched when wet and takes on a whole new look. Looking forward to seeing it completed with lawn and planted border by Spring of next year.

What have we been upto in the last couple of weeks: We have been busy with new enquiries in Chislehurst, Leybourne, Collier Street, Sevenoaks, Green Street Green and West Wickham. We may be in an economic crisis and you would expect luxury services  like Garden Design to be hit hard, but we have had the opposite effect, our best year to date and an increase of enquiries up by 35.7 % from last year. I designed some cantilevered oak steps to provide better circulation in a garden with oak retaining walls, Clayton from Quest Landscapes did a great job on the construction. The paddlestones have now arrived and ready for the the curvy wall, very exciting. We put the Brentwood garden to bed for the winter. Looks stunning with its crisp yew hedges contrasting with the wispy textural grasses - Miscanthus, Stipa and Calamagrostis. All the perennials have been cut back leaving the backbone structure for the winter, its such a contrast from the summer colourful display. We were also...