A key element of garden design is to link the garden with both the natural environment it sits in and with the style of the home so you have a natural flow from house to garden.

Here the houses are all based on a Japanese theme because the original site was used as a Japanese school. However, the garden is not in Tokyo but in Suffolk so we wanted something that would blend in with both the themed buildings and the surrounding countryside.

Japanese gardens use gravel and stone to create open spaces but this would have been too much in an English garden so I created a large gravel garden and filled it with evergreen box balls, Acers and blossom trees and then contrasted them with architectural perennials.

A typical English lawn creates the open spaces that are so important in a garden.

In 2015, the owners bought the property behind and the brief I was given was to integrate the two gardens without losing any elements of the main garden and allowing separate access to the second property.

This was achieved by using the same type of curves in the second garden. The open space was created by using gravel which flows from the main garden into the second.

A lawn would not have worked due to the small amount of available space and would have created the impression of two separate gardens rather than one flowing area.

Two different gardens that now complement each other, as well as the properties and their surroundings. For a free consultation, please get in touch either by calling 07775 611047 or email [email protected].