MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN DESIGN IN LEIGH-ON-SEA

Brief

The client has recently had a home office installed

Although the garden is fairly small it has several different levels across the space. Some lawn is required as the clients have a dog. The client would like the design to include an area for alfresco dining, an area for informal relaxing and storage for outdoor cushions.

Solution

Directly outside the bifold doors will be a step laid with clay brick pavers. A path, also laid with clay pavers in a herringbone pattern, will lead down the garden towards the office building. Raised beds will flank either side of the pathway, to the left finished with decorative cement tiles and the right finished with painted render. The pathway will dog leg to the left, past a flush planting bed containing a specimen olive tree, to join a large porcelain tile patio at the rear of the space which wraps around the garden office. This patio will be bisected by a cut-out planting bed in the middle containing white Mulberry parasol trees to create two separate areas (one for dining and one for informal seating). A new storage unit will be constructed in the space behind the garden office .

The existing fences will be painted with Cuprinol Garden Shades ‘Urban Slate’ with the left boundary to the rear of the space clad with cedar contemporary slatted panels. The centre of the garden will be laid with lawn, with a rendered block raised bed replacing the existing railway sleeper bed to the left.

Planting in the space is in a white and green colour scheme, primarily focusing on Mediterranean inspired planting, including a specimen olive and cordyline australis. The parasol mulberry trees and three cypressa sempervaries will add add height and structure to the pace. A pyrus chanticleer is positioned in the bottom left-hand corner to help aid privacy.