Work in progress
Sketch options for the entrance to a house in France, looking at different ideas for how the steps will work, the placement of pots and possibly a reclaimed stone trough as a water feature.
A sketch scheme for the garden of a beautiful house in North Oxford, looking at how best to provide some screening without making the space feel hemmed-in.
Some sketch sections for a garden on a steeply sloping site - a challenging design but one that is bringing opportunities for exciting ideas for some beautiful steps!
My clients at this pretty Cotswold farmhouse are hoping to add a new garden room and to extend their kitchen. My brief is to enhance an existing terrace, to create new seating areas within the garden, to allow space for an informal cricket pitch and to encourage biodiversity within the garden by planting native trees and hedgerows to the boundary.
A quick sketch showing ideas for new planting to the driveway to a Victorian Gothic manor house near Stroud. The clipped topiary echoes the shapes of the tower roof and turrets.
Options for a small town garden, with an oak pergola and generous, colourful planting beds to soften an existing extension.
The brief for this project was to create a large terrace for a cafe surrounded by mini wildflower meadows and small copses of native trees. An 'edible hedge' with wild roses, hazels and crab apples will further encourage wildlife within the garden.
A 1970s pool house is to be demolished and replaced with a structure more in keeping with the grade 2 listed 16th century house and grounds. My brief is to make sure the new building fits sympathetically into the existing garden and is linked to the house and surrounding barns by a series of paths, steps and terraces.
This project is for a small cottage set within a large garden, with a natural swimming pond and restored barn. Meandering paths and generous, flowing planting beds will subtly link these separate features. A wildflower meadow and native hedgerows will help to support biodiversity within the garden.