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Lucy Hunter Garden Designs
Out Of Africa
Designers: Lucy Hunter & Louise Ward
Sponsors: Blue Forest, Roots N Shoots, Forward Builders Supplies, MC2Hair Design
Contractor: AJB Landscapes
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Inspired by the 1930s and set in Kenya, Out of Africa features a bespoke gazebo on stilts, surrounded by English planting, which looks out over the lush Kenyan landscape.
The strong tones of sharp green, deep red and vibrant copper are blended with cream and white to create a strong and sumptuous colour palette. A simple path leads to a decked area with a wealth of bog planting, and a waterfall that hides a secret plunge pool.
This is a vision to transport you back to a time when the danger of the Kenyan landscape was softened by the romantic English planting of colonial settlers.