Working with architects

Sometimes architects need garden designs to get planning permission, or to set off a new-build/extension. Sophie works within the planning constraints set down by the local Planning Department to achieve what the client wants. Here, the home owners wanted lots of different areas: a bank to cache the building from view (planning requirement) with a fire pit in a wildflower meadow, a formal entrance and parking area, and a front garden with lots of different aspects as you strolled through tall planting including a terrace near the how to dine, a pond, a lawn and a greenhouse, all well screened from the road.

Front garden May 2025, 17 months after planting

An example of a garden design submitted to the Wiltshire Planning Department – a requirement before building this barn conversion could start.

May 2024, five months in, with pergola/brize soleil to shade the S side of the building

The front garden June 2023 , working backwards as we lay out soil

The front garden during building works September 2022

The front garden levels about to be sorted Spring 2023

Front garden pond with the first water lily leaves appearing, May 2024. planting 5 months in

The front garden pond ready for lining and cladding

The front garden pond being built

The front garden pond being dug, here ready for the concrete pad to be laid

Garden 2025

Garden 2025

The roof terrace being installed

The roof terrace with the sedum lawn well rooted

The sedum lawn in flower

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