Grand Design Gardens Winner

Its been a manic few weeks, here is a show garden we built for Christine Wilkie one of our talented designers, well done to here as she won Grand Designs garden designer of the year.

J & S Scapes Ltd were asked to create a new courtyard with decorative walls, paving, new stream, cottage garden and Breedon gravel driveway that had the feeling of it always being part of the original house. The courtyard needed to be welcoming not imposing, it needed to have intrigue with features and mature planting to soften the edges of the hard landscaping. The client had many sculptures that needed to be incorporated into the design.

Judges comments: ” An interesting court yard feature linking area between drive, house and rear garden.  Challenging falls requiring a good drainage to drive system.  Intricate brick panels with roman mosaic inserts.  Paving neat and well executed throughout.”

Here’s a gallery of the work we undertook, its great to be recognised for the hard work involved in these projects.  If you have a project you are considering, please contact us for more details.

The project was in Loosley Row near Princes Risborough, it was a very steep site that needed lots of natural stone retaining walls, the main paving areas were built with Yorkstone, many of the original features were re-used in the garden to restore the grounds to there former glory.

The deadline for completing the project was tight as the client had both of their daughters getting married over the summer period, so the work had to be completed.
I have put some pictures on the award pages for you to see here

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Click here to read all about it and view the pictures.