Chiltern Garden Design

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Little Chalfont Family Garden

A large family garden in Burton's Lane, designed to create year round interest and wow factor, as well as spaces throughout the wraparound garden with different feel and uses. A new gated entrance leads to a substantial gravel driveway and new entrance garden welcoming people to the house. The rear garden has a new formal lawn, sunken seating area with fire table and surrounding colourful planting, as well as adjustable parasol over the new dining space. A formal lawn is edged with yew hedging to separate it from planting areas (so ball games don't result in tramping through the plants to retrieve the ball) and a small kitchen garden and orchard have also been squeezed in.
Project Year: 2022
Project Cost: £150,001 - £200,000
Country: United Kingdom
The original gates were shabby and lightweight, and not in the right place. We helped the homeowner apply for planning permission to move the driveway entrance so that parking is in a less obtrusive place, and replaced the gates with automated hardwood curved gates set into impressive brick columns...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Entrance gates and walling
A formerly blank entranceway of plain lawn and gravel driveway has been given an extensive uplift by way of this circular entrance garden. The focal circle of porphyry sets has ripples of planting emanating from it, set in gravel, with yew hedging and evergreen trees and shrubs forming the bulk of...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Front Garden, Driveway and Gates
A deep planting bed surrounds the sunken seating area, bringing life, colour, shape, texture and form close to the entertaining spaces and the house. Plants have been chosen for their long flowering performance, ability to stand up without staking, hardiness and ease of maintenance as well as...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - perennial planting
Adding lighting to the front entrance garden makes it feel more welcoming after dusk as well as being a practical feature.
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Front garden lighting
Lighting is set into the brick walls of the sunken garden to throw light down onto the paving from behind the furniture, as well as small spike spots within the planting bed, to softly light through the flowers and plants to create an atmospheric glow. Steps are lit for ease of access, and the...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Garden Lighting
A new sunken seating area forms a feature in this family garden, with space for entertaining around a fire table. It's surrounded by lush colourful planting and swaying grasses, to create a sense of escape. Pleached evergreen trees form a stylish addition to the boundary planting, adding rhythm and...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - sunken seating area
This family garden is split into practical spaces, incorporating a small kitchen garden, a play lawn, a small orchard, and at its core, a sunken seating area which forms a central focus, surrounded by lush and colourful planting. Dining on the terrace is possible in all weathers under the cover of...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Rear garden overview
A new sunken seating area forms a feature in this family garden, with space for entertaining around a fire table. It's surrounded by lush colourful planting and swaying grasses, to create a sense of escape. Pleached evergreen trees form a stylish addition to the boundary planting, adding rhythm and...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Entertaining Spaces
In this blank canvas space, we designed a curving, playful, abstract topiary dragon to inhabit the space, flanked by a half moon bed of lush planting in a more muted scheme than the high energy sunken garden. A smart seating area offers a place to take a break away from the fray, whilst a trio of...
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Side Garden
This was a blank space with nothing but lawn and a path to the front door. Front gardens need to be welcoming all year round so this design incorporated a range of easy care evergreens in a contemporary parterre, with the warm tones of porphyry setts forming the centrepiece.
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Front Garden
A neat kitchen garden is sited at the south facing end of the main garden, in full sun, but screened off from the formal lawn with yew hedging. Douglas fir sleepers create easy growing spaces, surrounded by enough space to get between them.
Little Chalfont Family Garden - Kitchen Garden
Entertaining spaces within the back garden space include a new sunken seating area, nestled in a soft and colourful planting area.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
The side garden was given a quirky refresh which includes a topiary 'dragon' as well as a half moon planting bed. A bistro set creates a small break out space from the formal living room and study, and a trio of glossy planters adds elegance.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
Before the front garden transformation.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
After - the front garden is transformed into a walkthrough welcoming space, delineated with hedging in concentric circles pulsing out from a central circle of porphyry. The remaining space is softened with low maintenance planting emerging from the gravel mulch.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
After - the front garden is transformed into a walkthrough welcoming space, delineated with hedging in concentric circles pulsing out from a central circle of porphyry. The remaining space is softened with low maintenance planting emerging from the gravel mulch.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
After - the front garden is transformed into a walkthrough welcoming space, delineated with hedging in concentric circles pulsing out from a central circle of porphyry setts. The remaining space is softened with low maintenance planting emerging from the gravel mulch and roses and scented climbers...
Little Chalfont Family Garden
A trio of stylish planters filled with scented evergreen shrubs and trailing perennials create a year round statement on the terrace outside the family room window.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
Clay paver steps lead gently down into a simple sunken seating area, nestled amongst ornamental grasses which gently envelop and soften the space.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
A blank lawn has been transformed into a contemporary parterre with a mix of evergreen hedges, grasses, shrubs and groundcover plants set into gravel to match the driveway, creating an immersive arrival space that softens the house entrance. The central paved circle, made out of Italian porphyry...
Little Chalfont Family Garden
A sunken garden has been created at this property to create an indoor-outdoor living experience that is as beautiful as it is an immersive escape from the every day. Comfortable seating surrounds a fire table, wrapped around with grasses, shrubs and brightly coloured perennials creating a warm,...
Little Chalfont Family Garden
The side garden has been given an elegant makeover with simple planting in shades of white and green, and a bistro set for coffee breaks when working from home, or for break-outs from larger parties and summer entertaining.
Little Chalfont Family Garden
The sunken seating area is the centrepiece of this garden for family relaxation and entertainment. It's wrapped around with flowering perennials, grasses and shrubs to provide a fully immersive experience. It features comfortable sofas and a fire table for convivial time together with family and...
Little Chalfont Family Garden