Adding an Air of Mystery
The problem with this back garden was that what you saw was what you got and you could see everything!
The patio was quite small, compared to the size of the furniture, and there was an irritating and hard to maintain gap between the bed and the patio;
The whole garden lacked coherence and mystery, and the lawn was simply what happened when nothing else was going on; it had no shape of its own.
To give the garden an air of mystery, concealing part of it but without blocking it off totally, we introduced this lovely rustic fencing as a backing for the island bed;
We also extended the patio and gave it a less angular, more curvaceous shape;
This also meant that there was now ample room for the table and chairs on the patio, and lost that awkward strip of lawn which served no useful purpose. We shaped the rest of the lawn and created two new smaller seating area destinations under the tree and in front of the shed;
The challenge of the front garden was to expand the existing parking area without making it look too obvious, linking in a new gravelled edge with the existing layout. This is as it was before;
And here’s how it looked afterwards;
We’d successfully replaced the worn lawn edge with a gravel border, matching in with the existing gravel and edging. The sweeping curve made it look like it had always been like that, which was the object of the exercise.