Urban Eden 1

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London Garden Designer 2 Sara Jane Rothwell designed this bright, eye-catching, and plant-rich garden in Wimbledon, which included water, a garden lodge, and comfy outdoor seating area

he brief was fairly open, although stones that led directly to the garden lodge. one specific request was for a We installed new bespoke boundary garden lodge to be used as a gym hardwood fencing to the whole garden, and and art room. This was something planted pleached Hornbeams, with high Tthat would require planning permission panels of 1.5m above the fence height. This so I set this in motion whilst I got on with immediately framed the space and created designing the rest of the garden. privacy for the client. 3 The ground floor of the house opened We kept the deck, but removed the 4 out onto a deck that was one metre from balustrade and built planting beds and long the lawn level, and felt quite exposed to the stone steps around its perimeter. This had the surrounding neighbours. The garden also effect of anchoring the house to the garden, sloped across its width by about 1.5m, so I and opening up the space further. We also needed to incorporate this into the design. planted a 40m long mature hedge of Taxus It was important that as you walked baccata that led straight from the front garden into the kitchen and lounge, there was an through to the back garden. immediate focal point that distracted from The Landscaper Contractor – Ed Belderbos the surrounding buildings. I designed a patio was key to the success of this garden, the area with Cor-ten steel panels, and fire pit that workmanship and organisation of the project led you across a small pool, and onto a long build was faultless, and the client, designer and bench that transported you into a silver birch contractor enjoyed a good working relationship. tree copse with an understorey of woodland The only difficulties came with the planning plants. From here there were hidden stepping- permission for the garden lodge, which was a

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Size of project 700m² Timeline of development Dec 2011 to Dec 2012

Approximate Costings: Up to £200k

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long, painful and drawn out process. references This was an exciting garden to design, as the Garden designer Cor-Ten steel clients had such great vision and were open to London Garden Designer Glen Metals new materials and ideas. Apart from the lodge Sara Jane Rothwell Rosehall Industrial Estate, that suffered planning complications, it was 16 Highgate West Hill, 14 Palacecraig Street, Coatbridge, London N6 6NP Lanarkshire ML5 4RY completed in time for summer, and now the Tel: 07976 155 282 Tel: 01236 424 396 garden lodge has also been installed. Email: [email protected] Email: glenmetals@asdmetalservices. Web: www.londongardendesigner.com co.uk Web: www.glenmetals.co.uk Landscape contractor 1 Silver Birch Tree copse with an understory of Belderbos Landscapes Plants clipped Buxus, ferns and woodland planting. The Palm Centre, Folia 7 2 Access path will newly planted yew hedging. Ham Street, Ham, Well End Road, Surrey TW10 7HA Borehamwood, 3 Seating area with Cor-Ten panels and fire pit. Tel: 020 8940 2832 Hertfordshire WD6 5NZ 4 A side view of the garden. Email: [email protected] Tel: 0208 953 5827 5 Water feature separate from the seating area. Web: www.belderbos.co.uk Email: [email protected] 6 View showing the transition from seating area, over Web: www.folia-europe.com the water, across the bench, and down into the mini Materials – Sawn Yorkstone woodland area. The stone steps and water feature Bingley Stone Readyhedge line up exactly with the French doors of the kitchen. Cullingworth Mills, Court Gate Nursery, Station Road, Cullingworth, Eckington, Pershore, 7 Before shot of the side path linking front and back. West Yorkshire BD13 5AB Worcestershire WR10 3BB 8 View of the same side path finished, with the Tel: 01535 273 813 Tel: 01386 750 585 garden lodge at the end. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 9 Detail of the Cor-ten panel, with Acer atropurpureum. Web: www.bingleystone.com Web: www.readyhedgeltd.com Photographs 1, 2 and 4 © Marianne Majerus FSC Accredited Balau hardwood The Palm Centre 8 Southgate Timber Company Ltd Ham Central Nursery, Southgate House, Nether Hall Ham Street, Ham, about LONDON GARDEN DESIGNER Church Road, Moreton Richmond, Surrey TW10 7HA London Garden Designer Essex CM5 0JA Tel: 020 8255 6191 was established in 2003 by Tel: 01277 890 783 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.palmcentre.co.uk Sara Jane Rothwell. Sara Jane trained in Horticulture Web: www.southgatetimber.co.uk and Garden Design and brings to her gardens a Lodge further 10 years’ design experience from her work in RTF turf Garden Lodges film and theatre. The outdoor spaces she designs Lindum Turf Unit C12 Sandy Business Park, are characterised by her passion for plants and West Grange, Gosforth Close, Sandy, Thorganby, Beds. SG19 1RB inventive use of hard landscape materials. In January York YO19 6DJ Tel: 0800 043 4821 2013 – JoanMa Roig joined forces with Sara Jane Tel: 01904 448 675 Email: [email protected] and now designs alongside her. Email: [email protected] Web: www.gardenlodges.co.uk/ Web: www.turf.co.uk products/studios www.londongardendesigner.com 9