Project : Tonbridge

Project - Tonbridge

Category
Private garden, medium-large

Status
Completed and established

Brief
To landscape part of the garden in keeping with the listed property. Wanted formal structures in a traditional setting. Planting not to interfere with the beauty of the building.

Notable Features
Use of traditional materials.

Challenges
To keep the property the dominant structure and not in any way spoil the view of the house. Use minimal excavation.

Gallery
Before, after and during

  • ‘Old-fashioned though it was, my favourite, Roger Platts’ Garden Open, did win Best Show Garden [where] there was a feeling of depth and space, but still of intimacy. Ordinary plants, such as any of us could grow, were used.’

    by CHRISTOPHER LLOYD - COUNTRY LIFE, JUNE 2002