Creating Elegant Gardens
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Combining beauty and practicality in this ornamental vegetable garden in Fife Tucked away behind a lovely old terraced house in a Fife village, this sunny garden is a hidden gem. Inspired by Medieval rude screens and monastic gardens, the shapes of the beds echo the curved green oak timbers in the sun room at the back of the house. The design incorporates reclaimed bricks found on site, combined with cobbles, timber and sandstone paving to create textured detailing. The brief included a requirement to look good from the balcony above and we think it does!
It was a great pleasure to go back and photograph this garden again under new ownership and to hear how much a young family are enjoying growing their own herbs and vegetables here. For them the garden was a reason to buy the house – and, if possible, not to leave it.
Before its redesign the garden was distinctly lacking in privacy and was generally undefined. Car parking had previously been right behind the house so that the garden was visible only through parked cars. The client had rightly identified that this needed to change and we found a way of bringing vehicle access in further down the plot and hiding it behind a curved hazel screen. Despite first impressions though, I could see that there was a garden gem here just waiting to be sketched into being, and it remains a favourite of mine.
