Baggot Lane

Context:
Small city garden, part sun/full shade, adult family.

Brief:
“I’d like you to improve the garden’s appearance overall, and to make it more inviting for guests”.

Concept:
Our garden ‘nip and tuck’ service makes the best possible use of a small shaded courtyard space, giving it a fresh contemporary feel, with minimal intervention to existing elements. Containerised specimen planting at key locations provide strong points of focus, and a sense of formality. Pot plant selection includes a number of structural evergreen shrubs, perennials, grasses, and bulbs, creating year round displays of colour, texture and form. The rear bare red brick wall is softened by a climbing hydrangea attached to a new high-tech steel wire grid. A centrally located large terracotta pot planted with a tall umbrella-like tree fern, provides a degree of sheltered privacy, and adds a little drama to the scene.

Key elements:
Variety of medium to large contemporary pots, architectural planting, stainless steel wire plant support.

Key plants:
Architectural/specimen
Dicksonia antartica – Tree fern
Phyllostachys bambusoides ‘Castillonii’ – Castillon bamboo
Foliage/flower
Hemerocallis ‘Stella de Oro’ – Daylily ‘Stella de Oro’
Hydrangea petiolaris – Climbing hydrangea
Liriope muscari – Big blue lilyturf
Evergreen/structure
Ligustrum ovalifolium – California privet
Buxus sempervirens – Common box
Flower/accent
Crocosmia ‘Emberglow’ – Montbretia ‘Emberglow’
Foliage/texture
Dryopteris filix-mas ‘Cristata’ – Male fern ‘Cristata’