A City Roof Garden

Sponsored by

Digby Stone Ltd, Folia (Europe) Ltd, BG Building Contractors, The Sun Newspaper

Designed by

Geoff & Kas Whiten

Built by

Brad Green (BG Building Contractors)

Roof gardens, terraces and balconies are fast becoming popular places for outdoor living and entertaining. With more people migrating to towns and major cities and the increasing cost of urban real estate, property developers are now concentrating on building upwards, creating huge potential for roof-style gardens and well-designed balcony spaces.

This design is a small scale version of a recently developed city roof space that provided the owner with views over London as well as a private outdoor living area.

The main features are an area of natural stone paving, box-style seating, ornamental gravels with drifts of ground cover planting, groups of ornamental pots and containers, and planted beds around the perimeter of the garden.