Garden Design & Build, Canterbury

Oakleigh Manor Designed & Built this striking garden in Canterbury in 2023

The brief for this garden was to create a contemporary art-deco-style garden to unify with the new-build property, using mainly hard surfaces and sharp lines, with little-no timber or lawn in the garden. Space was limited in the existing garden with a large steep slope up to the fence to tackle in the design, so it was important to make good use of the space whilst keeping within a reasonable budget.

Hard features in the garden include:

• Rendered retaining wall with sandstone capping
• Naturally riven sandstone plank paving
• Kent ragstone gravel strips with pocket planting
• Black-painted fence panels

Plants in the garden include:

• Calamagrostis acutiflora
• Stipa tenuissima
• Lavendula agustiflora ‘mustead’
• Hydrangea arborescens ‘annabelle’
• Skimmia japonica
• Lolly pop trees
• Sedum carl