This landscape design & build project is now complete. The new light stone coloured brick piers and black iron railings have made a fantastic front boundary to the busy london street, at 1.5m high the railings present a firm and secure boundary line without creating a compound like-environment. The driveway area is surfaced with Harvest […]
Gardeners always find unique and fun challenges when exploring rock garden ideas. Rock gardening is an interesting subgroup in the art of landscaping. Recreating the Pennine or Alpine landscapes in miniature scale, complete with small perennials and delicate but sturdy bulbs and shrubs, offers plenty of challenges and rewards to gardeners. Here are some ideas […]
Water features enhance the beauty of any garden. They add a quiet, trickling sound that creates a peaceful ambience. When designed well, a water feature can work brilliantly as the focal point for your garden landscape. Here are some ideas you may want to consider: Small Pond Other than making your garden look attractive, a […]
The Oakleigh team have been busy here this week completing works on this fantastic project in Shenfield, Essex. The large garden scheme has been completely re-landscaped, back to the bone. A large french drainage system has been installed within the large rear garden area, to relieve the natural ground springs that soaked the garden into […]
Our Whitstable project complete, we managed to get some photos in the poor weather conditions. The planting scheme has really softened the space and added so much interest, balancing off the hard-landscape and structures. The spring colours are looking really good for such a young scheme. We fitted the irrigation system today so the garden will […]
This project in Enfield, North London is almost complete. This week we planted the new planting scheme which has encapsulated this small city garden with a mass of colourful foliage, flower and beautiful aromas. The scheme has also been designed to create a private paradise for our clients as the boundary fence and tree structures […]
Another new Resin Bound Gravel driveway has been completed this week in Erith, near Dartford, Kent. The entire low maintenance front garden and driveway scheme was designed by Stuart Barten of Oakleigh Manor, and implemented by the various landscape teams of craftsmen. The driveway has a fully SUD’s compliant porous sub-base and asphalt base layers, […]
Recent project completed in Sevenoaks, Kent. A beautiful new rear garden scheme, too see more of our projects click the portfolio tab at the top of the screen.
This garden design and build project has been started in Enfield, North London. The garden has been re-designed by the team to transform this tired and messy garden into a chique outdoor space for our young family clients. The new garden will be created by completely changing the outer retaining walls that hold the garden […]
This first Sevenoaks project of 2013 is almost complete after several weeks of intense landscaping on this challenging site. The garden is looking fantastic, it has transformed a challenging confined space with over-powering surrounding banks of grass into this spacious series of granite, lawn and planted terraces that climb the garden up through the amazing […]
