This lovely Edwardian house had an overgrown garden that needed some colour and form adding to it.  Low maintenance and year- round interest was the brief for a busy household.

Using limestone pavers that tied in with the original tiled pathway, a sharp central square that formed the frame for a focal point olive was installed.  Granite planters with contemporary grasses edged this and around this swathes of stipa grasses, mounding santolina and textural pittosporums softened the whole main bed. Alongside the path sentinels of upright euonymus green spire line up with Nepeta, geraniums, herbs in silvers, blues and yellows.

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