Virtual Garden TOUR 2020 - part three

We are back and ready to take you on ‘Part Three’ of our Virtual Garden Tour 2020. This time we’re starting off in Skipton with a contemporary garden to a new house. From there we visit a country garden in Kirkby-in-Cleveland and finish off with a terraced cottage garden on the edge of Ilkley moor in Burley Woodhead.

Contemporary garden with cottage planting for a new house in Skipton.

Our client had recently moved to Skipton to a new built house. While the house suited their needs, the garden was a frustration with poorly drained lawn and planting beds and a patio made of stained and slippy paving flags. Their priority was to resolve the drainage in the lawn and planting areas so they could grow cottage style plants and replace the flags with non-slip contemporary paving.

A new seating area at the end of the levelled lawn catches the evening sun.

The new triangular shade pergola will help to screen the neighbouring houses and provide shade for a new seat. Pergola was painted a mid- grey to link with the trellis panels.

The new stone retaining wall on the edge of the patio provides a seating edge and the drain behind the wall improves drainage of the lawn .

Country garden with new seating area, Kirkby-in -Cleveland.

This charming garden in Kirby-in Cleveland on the edge of the North York Moors was completed last year. We were appointed to convert the drive at the top of the garden into a new seating area and select plants to soften the new structures and to tie in with the existing garden.

The new, painted bench ( Andrew Crace design) creates a lovely new focal point at the top of the garden using the former drive. A pergola and pleached trees were added to screen the new house behind the boundary wall.

The view from the house to the existing pond and summer house.

The former garage – now a garden store – is disguised and screened with painted timber cladding and woodland planting.

Terraced cottage garden, Burley Woodhead.

We visited this garden on our garden visits day July 2019. It’s lovely to see the planting becoming more established a year later. The main issue with the garden were the deteriorating timber steps leading into the garden which were blocking any view into the garden from the French doors of the lounge. New stone steps were built to open the view in to the garden leading to a new seating area on the south facing wall.

The new stone steps create a connection and view from the house into the garden.

The main garden view from the house

The existing seating area with new garden dining furniture. enclosed by cottage garden perennials.