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.
Garden planting five months in
An example of a garden design submitted to the Wiltshire Planning Department – a requirement before building this barn conversion could start.
Front garden 5 months after planting
The front garden before the main planting with temporary kitchen garden planting while the earth settles
The front garden during building works
The front garden levels about to be sorted
Front garden pond with the first water lily leaves appearing, planting now 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
The roof terrace being installed
The roof terrace with the sedum lawn well rooted
The sedum lawn in flower