greencube garden and landscape design, UK

It seems I've been a little busy and pre-occupied and so over the last 2 days I have banned the Christmas festivities,  put my 'website hat' on and uploaded some of our fab gardens completed in 2014. Here's a taster: check our website which is still undergoing some other changes over the next week http://greencubed.co.uk/portfolio/portfolio.html three of these gardens are maintained by greencube - our landscape gardener Gemma. Regular garden maintenance is the key to a successful garden looking great all year. Now I'm off to celebrate the new year, Thankyou to all our hardworking landscapers who realise our designs and to our wonderful clients who keep us busy and challenge our creativity on a regular basis. Its been a wonderful 2014 and I'm very much looking forward to creating some wonderful new gardens in 2015.

Cornus are great background foil to the show off plants in summer but in winter they are centre stage and look amazing planted in bold swathes. Leaving some of the perennials over winter in the border can be just as magical as the summer colour, here Erigeron annus have been frozen in flower and add a wonderful skeletal texture to the winter border. Hamamelis x intermedia 'Barnstedt Gold' looks amazing in the winter sunshine and smell divine. Tiny Iris flowers popping up before the snowdrops - Iris reticulata 'Harmony'

Garden Under Construction in Sevenoaks Here I have applied oversized pots placed on brick platforms and large obelisks placed within simple border planting, complimented with midnight slate paving to work with the warm colours of the brick. The pots contain over 500 bulbs, I'll return in the spring to take more photos. Greencube are project monitoring this job visiting weekly. greencubed.co.uk Here 'Urb' the greencube cooper van, our reliable and resourceful team member, gets in on the photo on Christmas Eve, almost matching the obelisks in colour! Design and planning - greencube, planting greencube, hardscapes - langdale landscapes Garden hardscapes completed in Hawkinge Here's a lovely email (copy) from our clients in Hawkinge, Clayton at Quest Landscapes has just completed the hardscapes, planting to be carried out in the spring. Hi Mandy We have had Clayton landscape the garden and he did a fantastic job. We have just finishe...

It may be December but we are as busy as ever, I'll be working right upto Christmas Eve and re-vamping our website over the holidays. Here's what we are up to at the moment: Border Preparation - 'stuck record' I'm project monitoring the construction of a garden in Sevenoaks and visited yesterday, I must say very impressed with the border preparation. I sound like a 'stuck record' but plants need to establish as soon as possible with the best available nutrients, water and good soil for the best establishment, future growth and successful flowering. Seeing the guys dig out the rubbish soil, stones, roots and debris. adding good screened top soil and rotavating mushroom compost is the best preparation for plant establishment. A big thank you to those at Langdale Landscapes. Obelisks arrival I ordered these obelisks from woodengardenobelisk .co.uk , a small family run business based in Suffolk, great service. We are installing these within the two b...

Our little courtyard garden in Caterham, completed summer of this year is becoming a little bit famous, now featured in Achica.com An inspirational feature on extending the use of your garden into autumn with outdoor fires. See link http://www.achica.com/ACHICALiving/2014/10/gardens-when-its-cold-outside-curl-up-next-to-a-garden-fire/ Text taken from Achica website , compiled by Zia Allayway Bowled over  We can just imagine kicking back on one of the sofas next to the eye-catching fire bowl in this tiny urban garden designed by Mandy Buckland of  Green Cube Design . The fire is fuelled by bio ethanol, a renewable and green source of energy that produces no smoke, smell, or ashes. Held in a stainless steel urn inside the bowl, the flames provide instant heat once lit. You can find similar bowls at  Planika Fire  or contact Mandy for advice on how to integrate one into your garden design.  Its been a busy autumn, Gemma has been busy clearing lea...

greencube have been a little inundated with some exciting projects lately and so we've been a little busy,  it's been a while since I put a blog together. so here's what's happening at the moment: New Garden In New Barn Completed  we finished the lush, tropical, modern garden in New Barn, featuring another red fireplace with fire bowl, our client loves red, it's featured as an accent colour in their very modern kitchen and it was a 'must' to brighten up this shady garden and link it back to the house. We finished this garden last week, planting the final feature plants. The lighting has been tested and the hardscapes now complete. Here's Harriet positioning the tree fern: I'll return to take some night shots and some spring and summer shots for next year. garden designed by greencube, hardscapes by creative landscapes and planting by greencube Gemma will be looking after this garden on a regular basis to keep it look...

Another busy week for greencube. Despite it being a short 4 day week after the August Bank holiday we have continued the momentum with our workload. We have completed a small garden design for a couple in Hawkinge, Folkestone as well as a medium sized garden in Reigate. I visited Wildernesse Golf Club where we have been working with the committee to continue the design works for the courtyard, car park and side access. I picked up a new design brief in Eastbourne a couple of quotes collected for planting in the autumn and we carried out a survey for a small garden in Tunbridge Wells.  Gemma has been working in gardens in Langton Green and my own garden which really helps me keep on top of my plot and so today I mowed the lawn and tended to the vegetable patch and greenhouse. My garden definitely looks like its had the Gemma 'love'. We also visited a nursery to pick up a few plants to complete the planting at our garden in Langton Green. One of our priority jobs this wee...