Hidden Garden Gems

As I was toiling away, cleaning up a new client’s garden, I realised what gems lie beneath the overgrown weeds, shrubs and lawns. How much careful planning and effort went into those early stages of setting out this garden and the bones of structure that are still there.

It is an exciting position to be in, as a landscape designer and horticulturalist, bringing back the old garden to life, or working with those old bones and making them new again. Often a redesign doesn’t negate the history of a garden, but adds to it and works with the years of growth in those beautiful trees, the slopes and the framework of the original landscaping, making them work for the modern owners, but keeping the echo of the original garden.

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