Chilterns modern & contemporary cottage garden
“Life changing. We have fallen back in love with the house.”
Location: Chilterns village, Hertfordshire.
Client brief: Create a modernist garden with entertaining spaces and low maintenance, year-round planting interest which blends seamlessly with the traditional 1850’s home and location. We would like a series of spaces for entertainment, relaxation, play and growing vegetables on the steeply sloping site. A garden that complements the home.
Site: 8m x 40m (320sqm) rear garden. Large lawn area with established perennial borders. Steeply sloping site.
Design concept & response: The modern & contemporary home interior was extended into the garden to deliver spaces that feel linked together. The design focused on creating a large space for entertainment and relaxation immediately outside the conservatory with a seamless inside-out flow. This required significant excavation with retaining walls which were coherently matched to the bricks of the house.The owners were keen gardeners and the design features extensive low maintenance, drought tolerant & resilient planting which delivers year round interest. The design concept is grounded in the local Chilterns heritage landscape.
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Entertainment Terrace
Inside-out terrace allowing you to move from the orangery straight into the garden. Large format porcelain tiles across merge the orangery and garden together in a seamless entertainment space featuring bespoke furniture and cooking facilities. Generous steps lead up into the garden. An immersive, contemporary space.
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Immersive Planting
Terraced planting borders delivering colourful and fragrant impact rise from the edge of the entertainment terrace. A gravel path winds past the feature Bramley Apple tree with deep borders of partial shade loving perennials, ferns and grasses. Low maintenance and resilient planting.
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Into the Evening
Cleverly thought through LED lighting delivers mood and atmosphere well into the evening. In-planting lighting creates beautiful effects and shadows.
Entertaining Terrace - architectural larch cladding and modernist pergola
The Garden Beyond - explore the garden
Resilient & Pollinator friendly planting
Terraced Planting - creating a green hug
