the Manor
The clients initially proposed a terrace of resin bound gravel but we were fearful of the impact of such a dramatic monoculture of hard landscaping. Delving deeper into the brief, we discovered that a newly created Orangery was a key place they both enjoyed, whilst a replacement conservatory had also recently been commissioned.
Crucially, both these spaces had fabulous vistas out across the river and the wider estate, towards wild flower meadows and woodlands.
Raised beds were hence created, to frame these vistas, dressed with English limestone, and planted up with multi stemmed specimen Tibetan Cherries.
In addition an under planting of Japanese Forest Grass had pops of colour as Alliums, Geums and Echinacea ‘White Swan’ emerged. Now the resin bound gravel linked the areas together rather than dominated, finished with a stunning lighting and furniture scheme as the icing on the cake.
This project won the BALI National Landscape Awards for 2024 in the in the Domestic Garden Construction category.

Judge Elizabeth Connelly said…
This well considered design to meet the changing needs of the client was executed well. With care and attention on maintaining established features and trees while framing existing views and creating the connection between the property, its new additions and the surrounding landscape.
Client, Catherine said…
We live in a 15th century Manor House with quite an extensive garden. The garden was quite cluttered with a lot of small beds with box hedges around the beds and Ligustrum and Hornbeam trees growing in the beds and around the house. It took an awful lot of work to keep the garden tidy with a lot of hedges and Ligustrum cutting and pruning. Rob had done a lot of work on my sister`s garden so we decide to ask him to give our garden a “make over”. He and his team have done a marvellous job transforming our garden. All the little beds have been replaced by 3 large raised beds each with a beautiful cherry tree. Where we had lots of gravel paths, these have been replaced with resin gravel, so no weeds. We have a river running through our garden which had a crazy paving path which was all broken and twisted. This has been replaced with a lovely York stone path. The whole garden has been transformed. His team have done an amazing job working in some of the worst weather we have had.