Contemporary low maintenance garden, Addingham.

Looking back at the house from the garden pond with timber decking surrounding the pond. Grasses have been planted around the decking of the pond.

Our client inherited the 1970’s bungalow from his late mum who was a very keen gardener. Having refurbished the house he wanted to improve the garden which had become difficult to keep on top of as he worked in London and only came up for occasional weekends. It was important to him that any improvements were sensitive to the original garden design and planting.

Timber pergola with gravel path that has been planted with climbing roses, wisteria and alliums.

The climbing roses and wisteria had grown out of control and were pruned back. This allowed more light in the garden.

An oval shaped garden pond with light grey composite decking wrapped around in a contemporary shape providing a seating area. Ornamental grass planted around the decking softens the look.

The main new garden feature extended the contemporary character of the house into a large unused corner of the woodland border. We used a light grey composite decking to wrap around a tiny wildlife pond to create a new seating area. The decking was softened with drifts of ornamental grasses – Miscanthus Morning Light and Carex testacea Prairie Fire.

Raised hardwood sleeper beds for growing vegetables next to the garden pergola.

Next to the kitchen, new raised hardwood sleeper beds were created for herbs, fruit and vegetables.

Central perennial garden bed surrounded by gravel paths

In another contrasting part of the garden following selective removal of plants, we replanted the central bed between the converging paths, created a space for a proposed garden room and resurfaced and edged the path.