greencube garden and landscape design, UK

Wow what a week I had last week, 12 hour days in the hot sunshine at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show, staying in a B&B around the corner with Nilly, who I originally met at University over 10 years ago. I helped with the planting of the show garden along with Helene, Gavin, Sasha and the new celebrity from the 'chelsea challenge' Paul under the direction of Nillufer Danis the designer. A great hard working week - Nilly well done - Gold Medal and Best in category - well deserved, so proud. You can smell the garden before you reach it - full of Roses, Lillies and Jasmin and I'm looking forward to seeing the BBC coverage this evening at 9:30pm. Construction - Landform Consultants - what a team - of hard working 'can do' attitude landscapers.  Helene seeking shade under the pomegranate  Gavin releasing the canes from the climbers with Nilly's help.  Finished garden - just in time...  Mark and his team of landscapers  Ed, Joel, Martin and Ian and...

Here's one of our garden designs enjoying its second summer, a garden designed for a couple in Speldhurst who have had a wonderful baufritz house installed. A german kit home. We worked closely with the clients and created a very modern garden with decking and granite with feature walls and textural gabion retaining walls. A simple pared back planting design to create softness within the strong geometric layout. A stunning house now has a wonderful garden. house designed by baufritz, garden design greencube, garden planted by greencube, hardscapes project managed by robert middleton

I photographed one of our recently completed gardens last month, unfortunately the sun was hiding behind the cloud most of the time. This garden was completed in Autumn of 2014. It needs to knit together a bit more and all the perennial grasses need to do their thing before we take further photographs but the tulips and daffs were putting on such a display I couldn't help myself. ohhh, I love spring... Design greencube , hardscape Creative landscapes . planting greencube , maintenance greencube

We have just completed a new garden in Sevenoaks - a beautiful old coach house built originally in 1836, it now has a wonderful front garden with obelisks, old style coach house brick platforms with oversized pots bursting at the seems with daffodils and tulips. Slate paving and an arbour. A tasteful mix of old and new linking back to its heritage then jumping forward to the 21st century. Garden designed, planted and project managed by greencube, hardscape by Langdale Landscapes. Gemma now maintains this garden monthly. The resin bound drive is just about to be applied the last of the hard landscaping jobs. I will return to take further photos during the spring and summer to hopefully capture this wonderful garden through the seasons.

Busy busy as always. Tulips photographed in our Hadlow garden this week. It was a bit hot and a bit bright but these stunning lily flowering tulips are all open with great colour.  They sit within a courtyard enclosure within a much larger garden, surrounded by white rendered walls. We were a little surprised by the 25 degree heat this week, Gemma had her shorts on. I have been emailing our clients to remind them to keep watering. In my own garden I potted up a large grey stone pot with a mix of bulbs.  Now looking glorious, we use this double orange tulip quite a bit. Gemma has been reaping the rewards of her hard work this week, maintaining gardens in Tunbridge Wells, New Barn, Hadlow and Langton Green all of which have many tulips now in flower, we purchased 9,400 bulbs last autumn. Meanwhile my veg patch is doing well, here are my new salad leaves just started. Amelanchier lemarkii is just in flower, we use this small tree as a spe...

It's been another very busy week at greencube. I attended the SGD (society of garden designers) Spring Conference on Saturday, rubbing shoulders with my peers and fellow industry colleagues, a great day that focused on the use of ornamental grasses with presentations from growers, designers and plant hunters.  On sunday I completed a 14 mile walk to raise funds for Marsden Hospital - Cancer Charity - the Marsden March. Thank you if you sponsored me, in memory of gorgeous Alex. If you haven't please follow the link, it's not too late. https://www.justgiving.com/remember/151634/Alex-Sales I then foolishly booked planting a courtyard garden on the Monday in Reigate,  ideally I should have booked a day in the office to rest my achy legs. But the show must go on and so must the planting. Luckily Gemma was booked to help and we had it all planted up by 3pm. I have completed a garden design in Sevenoaks this week, a small skinny rear garden for a georgian house that is un...

Exciting Stuff - Hot off the press....... A new book written and compiled by Ian Hodgson to celebrate the work of the Society of Garden Designers - championing excellence in garden design was released last week. 'Great Garden Design'  ISBN 978-0-7112-3573-1 showcases the work of many designers and includes six greencube gardens in: Platt, Kent (my own garden) Twickenham, London Borough Green, Kent Chislehurst, Kent Tunbridge Wells, Kent and our show garden RHS Hampton Court Small Garden 2010 - Gold medal and best small garden We are very proud of our inclusion and will be sending our clients details of the book so they can share our joy and show their friends and family. Ian's summary of book: 'This book presents the best garden designs of the last ten years from more than 50 top garden designers. It offers design solutions for every situation, every area, all tastes and budgets, and any size of garden. It draws on the talents of celebrated d...