A walled kitchen garden to a new passivhaus in York

A walled kitchen garden using railway sleepers to create raised beds that are full of herbs and vegetables.

Herb bed in the second summer.

Raised bed with wooden sleepers created against the house wall and newly planted with herbs.

Newly planted herb bed against the warm house wall.

A pergola created with a timber structure forms the entrance to a newly built passivhaus in York

Newly planted pergola and approach to the front door.

A sunny brick wall with a Malus Golden Hornet tree and a scented jasmine growing up against the wall.

Malus Golden Hornet tree and scented jasmine – Trachelospermum jasminoides on the warm south facing wall.

A picture of the garden in late summer showing the raised beds with flowering perennials, gravel paths and a wooden bench up against a sunny brick wall

The garden in late summer. The raised beds were planted with long flowering perennials – Anthemis sauce Hollandaise and Erigeron karvinskianus.

Bin store and cycle shed with sedum roof at the end of the gravel path next to a raised bed with herbs

Bin store and corner Cycle Store with sedum roof.