Beech Park Avenue
Context:
Small suburban garden, full sun, retiree.
Brief:
“I don’t like anything about my garden, and I want to be able to enjoy it with my family and friends.”
Concept:
A fusion of traditional and contemporary styles, take form in a strongly rectilinear garden design, where space is maximised for leisure activities. Complimentary materials and muted colour tones, are selected for the new patio, retaining walls, curved screen, and rendered boundary walls. Key points of focus and ornamentation, provide privacy, shelter and visual stimulation. Mediterranean themed planting brings dynamic seasonal interest, colour, texture, and a softing of hard sufaces.
Key elements:
Semi-circular teak screen, sandstone patio, raised planting beds, containerised plant specimens, standing stone water feature, mood lighting.
Key plants:
Focal/specimen
Callistemon citrinus ‘Splendens’ – Crimson bottlebrush Splendens’
Olea europaea – Common olive
Evergreen/architectural/accent
Juniperus scopulorum ‘Skyrocket’ – Rocky Mountain juniper ‘Skyrocket’
Yucca gloriosa ‘Variegata’ – Variegated Spanish dagger
Flower/scent
Trachelospermum jasminoides – Confederate jasmine
Foliage/flower
Agapanthus Headbourne hybrid – African lily
Convolvulus cneorum – Shrubby bindweed
Kniphofia caulescens – Caulescent red-hot poker
Texture/movement
Carex buchanii ‘Red Rooster’ – Leatherleaf sedge ‘Red Rooster’