Vertical gardening is a classic garden fashion that remains among the hottest trends today. Green walls bring a sense of depth and height to small spaces. These can also serve as privacy screens to cover unwanted views around the garden. A living wall adds character to your outdoor area and provides the perfect ambience for […]
New Driveway project commences – September 2013 Project Type: Driveway Design: Sketch Type by Stuart Barten Expected Duration: 14 Days Project Details: This Driveway design & build project has commenced this week, the groundwork teams are currently excavating the old driveway surfaces, It looks like a bomb has landed. The project involves the installation of […]
This new garden design & build project has commenced, the groundwork teams are making good progress. The project involves the redesign of the entire garden,which is a beautiful, newly renovated house, nestled within an established wooded area just outside Maidstone. The garden is a little overgrown and with unwanted vegetation spoil plies leftover from major […]
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, […]
