A garden for residents to enjoy
The Supreme Winner was also the winner of Soft Landscaping and Commercial Garden award. Kingston Landscape Group took both accolades for their Streatham Hill project, a gated residential development built around a landscaped communal courtyard garden located in South West London. Enclosed on three sides by five and six storey apartments, the garden is an exquisite centrepiece that has been planted to bring year-round pleasure and interest for residents.
This garden has been created with its residents and other users firmly in mind. From the first floor level, above a car park, residents can access a second floor garden above a new retail unit via an external staircase. The garden features 60 semi-mature trees, with more than 6,000 spring bulbs planted at their feet, scented plants and herbs, and corten steel seating, borders and cladding on the three raised water features to offset the planting.
According to the judges, the Streatham Hill project represents “a comprehensive landscape treatment with a creative use of planters, Corten steel and beautiful soft landscaping. The composition of the space made it feel like a number of smaller gardens which could be enjoyed by the residents and offered inspiration.”
Scandinavian influences
Winner of the award for Project Value £100,000 to £200,000, Artisan Landscapes, had to combine a long list of requirements with a Scandinavian look and feel on a large, sloped plot when it came to creating a formal, full sun garden on its Ridgeview project. Corten steel was in evidence on this project too, used to clad a paved, raised patio and steps, and as a retaining wall and planters. In addition to the naturalistic planting and a large vegetable garden featuring raised beds, the garden also features a multitude of surface finishes, including sandstone steps, clay brick-paved pathways and resin-bound gravel.
Modernist lines
Skyfall by Landscapes 4 Living, winner of the award for Project Value £60k – £100k, is an example of how the garden and the house should be symbiotic. The modernist lines of the house, clean and unfussy, are matched by the geometric placement of lawn, path, border and planting, all of which allow a sculpture piece set against a smooth surfaced, feature wall with a large cut-out ‘window’ framing the planting behind, to rightly take the spotlight
On different levels
Paradise in Ealing by Oakley Landscapes, winner of the Hard Landscaping award, again shows how different levels are important in successful garden design. As with the terraces in the Supreme Winner, here the landscapers have cleverly used heights of brickwork and decking to shape the garden. The visitor’s eye is guided by the angles and curves of the hard landscaping.
Colour in the community
Winner of the Community Garden award, Aldeburgh Hospital garden by Roger Gladwell Landscape Design and Construction is a lesson in the powerful use of colour. A bold mixture of purple and yellow combine to give a feel of hope and happiness in a garden designed with the purpose of helping the ill and the anxious.
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