greencube garden and landscape design, UK

We have installed three vertical green walls into a larch clad wall in our garden in Greenwich living art installations - they have knitted together wonderfully. We planted these in July. They are automatically fed and watered, they need a little bit of TLC every 4 to 6 weeks. garden designed by greencube garden hardscapes LDP garden planted by greencube garden maintained by greencube

Nice that our RHS Hampton Court Flower Show, gold medal/best small garden still envogue, featured in House Beautiful last month. Garden highlights climate change from strawberry growing to Peach groves to Lemon trees. Garden contains water movement throughout with rills disecting garden. Herb walls, vertical strawberry growing and much more.......

Vertical planting has been incredibly popular during the last 10 years, inspired and driven by Patrick Blanc's amazing installations, seen in London, Paris and across the world. I dabbled with it back in 2006 for a rhs chelsea show garden, creating my vertical living art installations, but we have since played with the ideas. Here's an idea we carried out back in a tiny courtyard garden back in 2007, using offcuts of paving, to create the crevices in which I planted a mixture of Sempervivums, requiring a teaspoon of water, these plants can thrive in this sunny location and are incredibly low maintenance. Here mixed with Rudbeckia deamii, Achillea, Verbena, Anemanthele (although be careful with this grass, it can self seed anywhere, but easy to pull up unwanted seedlings) and topiary. This vertical idea creates a great, original, textural focal point that breaks up the white rendered walls that enclose this tiny courtyard.               ...

Greencube designed a garden in Sevenoaks back in February 2013 for a very difficult site with a hillside rising 7 metres from the base of the house. This house was a new build and our clients inherited a lawn on a steep almost vertical bank that could not be mown without risking injury! The rear of the garden rises from the upstairs windows for a further 3 metres with a rooftop garden/courtyard. We have designed geometric deck platforms, creating a raised boardwalk, across the difficult terrain.  We took our inspiration from Patrick Blanc's vertical living artwork and the Thames Barrier Park with its near vertical lonicera greenwalls. Our clients have described this garden as their  'mini eden project'. We have delivered a wonderful green wall that is low maintenance and a wonderful outlook. The planting consists of 6 species all ground hugging and chosen for their textural contrasts, fast growing to lock the bank together to create a living wall, a tapestry ...

It's always a huge compliment when I see our gardens published in magazines, sharing our hard work, inspiration and ideas with the world. We have seen my Hampton Court, Gold medal winning Garden of 2010 published in a magazine in the Netherlands this month. This is the forth time I've seen my garden featured in a dutch magazine or book. They kindly sent me a copy. The magazine is called Groei & Bloei, which translates to 'Growth and Bloom' and they featured a 4 page article about the garden. Here are the scans of the magazine. dutch magazine website:  groei.nl and our website media page:  http://greencubelandscapes.co.uk/media/media.html I've also been contacted by Hadlow College this week who sponsored the Hampton Court Garden as they are about to re-build it at Hadlow, Broadview Gardens and needed some information. I'll have to take a sneaky peak once they start progressing, be great to see it built again. Our lovely Ide Hill, Sevenoak...