PLANTING DESIGN INSPIRATION

I wanted to used naturalistic planting within the garden, using native species that would thrive without the need for a lot of maintenance. I also thought it would create a nice contrast with some of the sharper hard landscaping elements within the garden. 
There will be pleached trees along the length of one boundary to create privacy and a sense of height. On the opposite border there will be a beech hedge, which when it turns copper at the end of the year will provide structural interest and frame the garden..

CHICKENS IN THE GARDEN

I like the idea having a productive side to the garden as well as aesthetic, and as I am not incorporating a vegetable patch in to the design, I thought chickens would be fun. They would also be good for the children and would add a sense of life and movement to the garden. I wanted to keep the coop relatively simple so that it would blend into the back ground of the overall design and not become too much of a feature

ELEVATION

A really nice example of an elevation drawing from a plan. The thing I like in particular is the grid pattern for the planting plan to show width, and the lines on the elevation to show height. Simple but effective.

WHITE OAK DECKING

White Oak is the wood i've chosen for any decking areas in the garden as it has a light colour that will work well with the interior furniture as well as the main outdoor table. It also has a slightly rustic finish to it, which i thought would be in keeping with the contrasts between contemporary and traditional design in the garden.
As with the use of granite + water in the garden, i thought wood was also an important natural material to use somewhere.

 

GRANITE SPHERE WATER FEATURES

In keeping with my use of materials found in the Swedish landscape I wanted to incorporate  water in to the garden. It is also a good way to distract from the background traffic noise that was heard during the site analysis.  
I thought it would be interesting to use granite in another form - so that I will have granite setts, granite paving and these texured granite spheres. This will provide a sense of continuity within the garden. I want to put one of these water features near the house/sitting area + one up by the studio as these are both places where people can appreciate them in close proximity.