greencube garden and landscape design, UK

I had a sneaky preview of the RHS Chelsea flower show grounds yesterday and found some lovely planting combinations, exciting sculptures and cor-ten in abundance.... Nic Howard design and Langdale Landscapes construction -  David Harber garden featuring some wonderful sculptures. I also spotted lots of cor-ten steel and cor-ten coloured planting!!! Paul Martin's garden: Here's a cor-ten wall also greencube are so on trend we are currently installing cor-ten steel into a garden in North Norfolk, currently under construction,  SJB landscaping doing a fantastic job. We have had sheets of cor-ten cut to create a path, in wedge shapes divided by oak sleepers, mixing this with black limestone and corten troughs. Here's the 3d views and part of the garden under construction, the cor-ten has not developed its desired patina, but each week it will change and mature. Watch this space for our finished garden

What an April - so so so busy. I've managed to stop for a few minutes, grab the camera and take some images of the wonderful Tulips in my own garden, here we have used Tulipa ballerina a lily flowering tulip and Tulipa 'Dolls Minuet' a wonderful hot pink. on the terrace, I have placed a couple of water bowls for the birds to drink from the bug hotel is seasoning well Meantime the garden we are working on in Seal is almost complete, I must say Langdale Landscapes have done a superb job building the sunken fire pit. It looks amazing. We planted up this garden last week and will return to take some photos once it starts to fill out and flower. A wonderful social space, sinking the terrace by two steps and creating big built in sofa style seating area, creating a cozy zone. We have had some lovely comments back over the last few months on gardens that we have designed, managed and delivered. Here's a lovel...

Workload at greencube is busy as always. We are project monitoring one of our designs in Offham, Kent working alongside landscapers - Creative Landscapes and contractor Pondscapes  on a wonderful garden for an Oast house. Ragstone walls are currently being built including a ragstone cascading water feature.  This week we are finally planting the Wildernesse Golf Club's courtyard garden. I'm really looking forward to seeing the clubs final transformation turning what was a post war 1950's ugly building and tarmac area into a contemporary, appealing and smart clubhouse. We are also working with new landscaping company SJB landscaping in North Norfolk on a small courtyard garden, we are very excited about this scheme. Garden construction starts in May for this very unusual bold garden....... watch this space Meanwhile a small design for landscaping company Langdale Landscapes is coming to fruition.Using tier cladding and porcelain external tiles. ...

It's been a wet winter and pretty grey, work is busy. We are currently booking new designs into May 2016. What have we been upto? I attended the Society of Garden Designers awards ceremony at the Landmark London Hotel on the Marylebone Road for an evening of catch up with lots of old and new friends and colleagues. A big Thank You to the Land Design Partnership who invited me along for the evening. The equivalent to the BAFTAS for garden design surrounded by tv celeb garden designers, Chelsea Main Avenue Designers and many SGD members. A lovely evening, catching up with suppliers, other designers and landscaping companies. Here I am with Christina from Land Design Partnership and Rae from Rae Wilkinson Design. The food was delicious the wine was flowing, but the room was incredibly warm, we chatted all night, celebrating the success of great designs. Unfortunately I didn't stay up in London as I needed to work on the new website at the weekend, getting the last train hom...

greencube are constantly designing difficult gardens on multi levels and always use sketchup pro to create our three dimensional interpretations of our plans. This has become an invaluable tool to accurately represent our ideas and our designs. We create a number of views, take you for a tour around your newly designed garden. Landscapers also love our 3d's, it helps with their interpretation. We also share our sketchup files with architects and vice versa if we are working on a shared project. Here are a few examples of gardens we have designed recently using sketchup pro A new build bungalow with small garden, part enclosed by a brick wall for a retired couple A couple we designed a garden for back in 2008, who have bought extra land and extending their garden further, in Surrey A multi level garden in Seal, Nr Sevenoaks A large family garden in Sevenoaks  A small courtyard garden for a family in Brentwood We use sketchup to draf...

Here's our corten firebowl and log store on the terrace in our meadow viewed from the greencube studio window. greencube's end of year summary and celebration Having worked a whole year without a design assistant in the office, its been incredibly busy and tough at times but always rewarding. Here's some facts from this years performance greencube has completed 31 garden designs greencube has planted 15 gardens greencube has project managed 17 gardens greencube (Gemma) has maintained 18 gardens (designed and planted by greencube) mandy helped plant up a large show garden at Hampton Court - 9 days, which won gold and best in category - Nilufer Danis Designer Congratulations to Gemma our maintenance gardener who has completed her RHS exams this year awarded with RHS Level 2 Diploma in principles and practices of Horticulture. Well done Gemma. We are currently booking new enquiries into February and March 2016 having had a busy autumn and influx of new work....