Just completed another design and proposal for a garden in Upper Cambourne, It must be fifteen years since I created the first of my gardens in Lower Cambourne.     Gardens in this area always suffer from a very heavy clay soil and more often than not, drainage problems. In this case the garden will […]

Pets and children had all taken their toll on this Cambourne family garden. It was in desperate need of  a new look. I incorporated retaining walls of sleepers to split the garden into multiple levels and make it much simpler to keep the lawn cut and tidy.   The original garden have several plants worthy […]

Here my clients had a very well maintained garden which they had obviously taken good care of but, it was quite dull and they wanted more form and structure to make it a garden that would be worthy of their efforts to maintain it.       I used Indian sandstone paving and artificial grass […]

I’ve just completed this simple design for a garden on a sloping site. Situated on a new build estate in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, this presented several issues which needed to be addressed by the garden design. Firstly the pergola with the screened back is to reduce the impact of pedestrians passing along the footpath just beyond […]

I don’t only do full garden makeovers, if all you want is a new patio that has been well constructed and will last for years to come, then I am the man for that too!  

Most people I speak to still hold the conventional view that their patio should be immediately outside their back doors. In my experience this is not so in more than half of the designs I create. In this example we can see that the garden slopes up sharply from the back of the house. The […]

This very small new build garden was on two levels. The upper level was retained with green oak sleepers which were already showing signs of advance decay even though the property was only two years old. the design is simple and serves to owners requirement for somewhere to socialise and space for there dog.   […]

The first new garden design of 2019 is already well underway. landscaping began before Christmas with clearing the site and putting up new boundary fences, At the beginning of 2019 the foundations went in and construction on the retaining walls and hard landscaping elements has already started. There is still a lot to do, next […]

The October 2018 edition of Modern Gardens magazine featured a garden I designed and built for a townhouse in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire. What I really liked about this piece is that they interviewed the client directly to get their perspective on the garden. From a landscape gardeners perspective it was quite a challenge blending the contrasting materials […]

It’s been on the back boiler for a while but in late 2017 I finally got around to building myself a new office in the garden. We have been remodelling the garden to a new design now that the children are older and this will be it’s 3rd incarnation in the 14 years or so […]