A bright and welcoming outdoor room for entertaining and relaxing

This courtyard garden belongs to a lovely holiday cottage in the golf and seaside resort of Elie, so the garden has to be very low maintenance but provide a warm welcome over a long season.

The design makes clever use of space to fit in different seating areas without any sense of crowding. Extra seating and storage is fitted into raised beds and the bold gazebo gives a great focal point to this very sociable garden. The style is contemporary with a seaside twist – bright blue and gold flowers echo colours of sea and sand, whilst grasses move in the breeze and the smooth sandstone paving is combined with beach pebbles.

Professional lighting design has been incorporated to pick out the soft grasses and gently light the gazebo so that the garden looks great at night. We chose warm lights which are flattering to people as well as plants! The east coast of Scotland is surprisingly sunny but even so the garden was designed to look good in all weathers and we think it is rather sleek and beautiful in the rain.

Our Clients Say....

"I cannot thank Jayne enough for her advice and help, planning my 3 acres of walled garden. She listened to the flowers I liked and the colours I wanted, and with great consideration of the position of the garden and the soil, came up with what is turning out to be a perfect design. Every tree and shrub is happy in its situation, and in a few years time I will have a lovely colourful, easily maintained garden. I could not have managed it all without her, and she was a pleasure to work with."

- Maureen Jessetts

"Jayne planned a garden exactly to our specification, using existing materials and providing us with a low maintenance garden in sympathy with the house. She provided excellent planting notes and guidance on follow up care of the garden. So much so, that she has also designed our back garden at the Bank House and hopefully will be planning another garden for us in our new house."

- John and Carol Pease, Blackford

Dear Jayne, Thank you so much for your thoughtful and creative design work in our front garden – we love it! We feel very blessed indeed.

- Jane and Kevin, Stirling

Jayne’s design provided the framework which has transformed an arid stretch of tarmac into a small and intimate garden that, still in its first year, has given us endless pleasure and interest.

- Private client, Doune

Jayne is an instinctive garden designer. Her natural sense of design and abundant horticultural knowledge combines perfectly with a strong practical sense. We now have a garden that all six of us delight in and our visitor’s exclaim at.

- Iona Leishman, Dunblane

“We are all delighted with the new garden. We used to be embarrassed by the garden and overwhelmed by the work it needed, but now we are really proud of it. Everyone in the family uses the garden much more now, and our daughter wants to play outside all the time.”

- Francesca Tellini

“Jayne has created a lovely garden from a sea of mud and builders' rubble. It meets our requirements for something easy to maintain. The garden sits well in our country setting and compliments our house beautifully. All in all we are quite thrilled with Jayne and her team's work and are looking forward to sitting outside taking in our stunning new surroundings.”

- Eleanor and Bill Wilson, Aberfeldy

"Jayne has created a lovely garden from a sea of mud and builders’ rubble. The garden sits well in our country house setting and compliments our house beautifully. It also meets our requirements for something easy to maintain. All in all we are thrilled with Jayne and her team’s work and are looking forward to sitting taking in our stunning new surroundings."

- Bill and Eleanor Wilson, Aberfeldy

“Jayne is an instinctive garden designer. Her natural sense of design and abundant horticultural knowledge combines perfectly with a strong practical sense. We now have a garden that all six of us delight in and our visitors exclaim at.”

- Iona Leishman