Garden in Bermondsey

Description: Residential garden design

Date: November 2012

Design development for Matthew Wilson at Clifton Nurseries.

A new basement room lowered the garden to the back of the house and the redesign of the outside space was an integral part of this project being a success. The new levels in the garden provided quite a challenge to overcome.

The immediate space outside the basement room is a spill out entertainment space to the house, including sofas and a bar area. The level change then allowed space for an external storage space within the wall of the middle terrace, with doors on either side of a water feature wall. Steps lead up the side of this wall to the middle terrace which is designed as a kitchen garden with wall trained fruit trees and three large sculptural planted pots which can be viewed from the house through glass balustrades. Further steps lead up past a rosemary hedge to the upper terrace which is on the same level as the neighbouring gardens. This area has been surrounded by pleached trees to give a formal feel to the garden while making the most of limited space, and also to protect views into the garden.

In the limited space of the front garden has mostly been left open for car parking. A bin store has been incorporated to the side of the space while a formal hedge has been used as a boundary and pleached trees have been to front the property.