This garden aims to illustrate how a small space can be transformed into a sustainable and beautiful garden that doesn’t cost the earth, by using some basic design principles, a few reclaimed materials and some locally made products. Inspired by his passion to bring great design within the reach of a wider audience and at a reduced environmental cost, the designer wanted to give a second life to materials and create a garden that didn’t feel second best. A reclaimed planting medium supports a variety of plants that are designed to cope with our changing Yorkshire climate. Key features include a bespoke water feature that celebrates the everyday and a reclaimed bathtub housed in a recently refurbished bathing house.
Planting has been selected to be mainly drought tolerant and the planting medium has been created using builder’s ‘waste’. The colour scheme for the planting incorporates blues, purples and steely, silver foliage with cool whites, punctuated with limey greens.
Key plants include roses, hazel, sweet peas, Erigeron, and perceived ‘weeds’.
The garden will be re-used in a variety of the designer’s client gardens.
