The owners still needed parking for three cars so the first step was to map out the turning circles and sizes of their vehicles. There also needed to be accessed across the gardens for wheelie bins and the postman which was factored in and a must have. Once this was done I created a mood board with the look and feel they wanted for the garden. The clients wanted something quite contemporary that would provide year-round colour and structure to the garden.

One of my new contemporary ideas was to use Hebe pinguifolia ‘Sutherlandii’, instead of a clipped box, to provide a framework low hedge around the lawn and borders. This can be clipped once a year in spring to keep it neat in shape. It provides a formal evergreen hedge that is also something out of the ordinary!