Courtyard gadren.......

We have been as busy as ever and unfortunately that tends to mean we don't get much chance to keep you updated on what we are up to!!
Here are some images of a project we finished recently, it was a court yard garden which our customers wanted to have updated, they had wooden decking down which had gone green & become very slippery & started to rot due to being in the shade, the customers did still like the idea of decking though, so we opted for a composite decking system which would eliminate all of these problems and is far easier to maintain as you don't need to treat it each year. Alongside that we replaced the old fence using cedar panels which again cut down on maintenance as cedar does not need to be treated, we also replaced the tiles with porcelain paving.

BEFORE

After, using the narrow part of the yard for storage solutions

BEFORE

AFTER

Dog proof garden!

This is a job Urban Eden Landscaping finished a couple of weeks ago, the main reason the customers wanted the design & work carrying out was to dog proof the garden, they have a dog who likes to dig! They wanted a contemporary style with a mixture of paving & decking, the planting scheme was to be low maintenance, and when established will fill the raised planters.

Before......

After........

Getting ready for the 'potting shed'....

Well the time has come to turn out attentions to our newly acquired garden, we bought our house one year ago & it has had a few surprises up its sleeve as far as the amount of work it needed goes (To say the least) however after much blood sweat & tears the house is almost complete so we are looking at the garden now....It isn't huge by any means but bigger than our previous yard which was a lovely victorian terrace house & a very lovely yard but not great for growing veggies!!

You would think having Urban Eden Landscaping  tackling our own garden would be an easy job but it isn't, we are so lucky to see so many lovely ideas & different materials that it is so hard to decide what to do! The house we have bought is a small cottage so it will be a more traditional garden with a few contemporary touches, I know I want a lovely potting shed/summer house at the end of the garden & I want the soft landscaping to have a 'potager' feel, mixing lots of veg & herbs in with the flowers & climbers so an idea is emerging I suppose!

So here is a pic of our VERY blank canvas, there isn't one plant in the garden!! Apart from an Elderflower which has self seeded & is growing out of the wall & knocking it over!!

First job for Col before the birds start to nest is to get rid of the Elderflower tree which has self seeded (though it pains me so to get rid of any tree) the wall is about to fall down!

Our garden is our weekend project (well our sunday project really as we work Saturdays) so it will be a slow process but I will keep popping updates on the blog xx