Sydney Street Garden Design

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Garden design for Sydney Street

This London townhouse has a veritable sun trap garden, but is overlooked by buildings on three sides. The design for this once over-grown basement level garden was dictated by the client’s insistence that it should look good with minimal maintenance.

Predominantly paved in York stone squares, the diagonal setting affords an effective foil to the central diamond square of decking. The simple, but eye catching horizontal arrangement of Western Red Cedar timber is framed by a quirky border of grass. This detail humored the client’s wish to incorporate an invariably high-maintenance area of lawn. A further border of glazed green tiles completes this eclectic focal point, balanced by small flower beds in the garden’s four corners that are planted with ornamental grasses and Buxus balls.

Given the lack of privacy, the wall on either side of the garden were stripped of ivy and extended vertically with trellis and climbers; Trachelospernum and Solanum. The back wall has been dressed and disguised by a contemporary timber framework and planted with Phyllostachys nigra and other tall bamboos. An appropriately funky and extremely comfortable choice of garden furniture was sourced with the client and completes this evocative, ‘hot spot’ in the heart of town.