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City gardens
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Urban Space: Modern Eden
Designer: Kate Gould
Contractor: Thymeless Landscapes
Designed for modern outdoor living in a flexible urban space, this garden aims to be a private Eden where the stresses of the world can be lost for a while.
Planted for ease of maintenance and year-round interest, the garden is based around a curved back wall with a similarly curved seat at the front, which emphasises the softness of the design.
A contrasting mix of polished and matt surfaces, landscaping is deliberately neutral to allow the plants to shine out against it. A mixture of perennials and architectural shapes in shades of purple, pink, silver and white with splashes of orange flourish in this urban space. Hornbeams add green above the eye line and link in with the Sedum roof on top of the back wall.
A seat with a drinks cooler for entertainment and a water feature, which re-circulates over stainless steel panels to provide sound and a rippling effect, have been custom made for this garden by Mark Bazeley of Pura.
After Chelsea Flower Show certain parts of the garden will be taken to a community garden in Harrow, which Kate Gould designed last year.