Reflection Garden

This compact garden has the lot! There are two terraces made of Egyptian limestone, a decked platform bordering a dark reflection water, a limestone path through rich planting to the second evening terrace and privacy provided on two sides by pleached hornbeams.

Above all, the owners wanted a real garden with lots of seasonal planting which would look stylish and beautiful and at the same attract birds and insects.

Major renovations were being carried out on the house including a timber clad and glass ‘capsule’ off the sitting room and kitchen.The client wanted to create a contemporary garden to complement the interior space including a water feature. They did not want a lawn, but they were very keen to have a well designed architectural space which still had the smell, look and sound of a ‘real' garden and which was not too hard or minimal.

"a well designed architectural space which still had the smell and look of a real garden."

The design solution was to create a journey through the garden from the upper terrace  paved with Egyptian limestone to a lower secondary paved terrace via a limestone path through creeping thyme and Erigeron karvaniskanus. 

Off the timber clad capsule extension there is a dark reflection water and a decked area providing a continuum of timber and water when viewed through the sitting room down window leading the eye down to a multi-stemmed Amelanchier lamarckii framed against a feature wall at the end of the garden.

This large feature wall, which screens a garden storage area, is complemented by an adjacent smaller feature wall lime-washed indigo blue.