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Further information
 

For a free initial consultation, please contact
David Cheetham
Gardens
 

email : David
 

phone :
 

0207 640 1023

   
outside lighting

Project :
Formal Victorian Front Garden

 
 
   
 
  • This is the front garden of a large, detached, double-fronted Victorian property in SE27. The client's wish, was to transform their overgrown front garden into a formal space to not only frame the house beautifully, but also to make room for off-street parking to accommodate two family cars.
  • The brief was that the garden should reflect the house's Victorian architecture.
  • Strong, formal, geometric shapes create a sense of formality.
  • The planting is very structural and is dominated by over 30 metres of low clipped box hedging. Three mature Himalayan birch trees create strong, vertical accents and balance with the existing mature magnolia on the opposite side of the garden. Topiary in the form of box balls and standard bay trees add to the formality.
  • The boundaries were redefined using low red brick walls and black metal railings and gates in a traditional Victorian design.
  • Square black limestone paving was used to pick up on the colour of the original period tiles of the pathway.
  • The parking area and planting beds were defined using black rope-top edging.
 

 
 

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