Gabby has worked as a garden and landscape designer in Lancashire since graduating from Myerscough college in 2006. In this time she has worked on many different projects of varying sizes building up a large portfolio of designs and establishing good contacts within the landscape industry.
This design was for a professional couple with a young family living in rural Lancashire. The brief was to break up a large lawn area in front of the house to create a garden to compliment the house and blend with the surrounding countryside.
The finished garden includes a grass labyrinth, formal circular lawn, children’s play area and native tree and shrub planting.
This was an upgrade to an existing established garden. The design features new paving and ornamental planting close to the house and native shrub planting around the border of the garden to frame views and provide privacy.
The aim of this project was to transform an unexciting grass and paving area within a school playground into a stimulating and colourful play and learning area for the children.
The garden features a raised planter to grow vegetables, a sensory path through an artificial grass lawn, a colourful safety surface with graphics for free play and a storytelling/learning area with chalkboards and benches.
This school asked for an existing hexagonal stage to be developed to provide more play value for Key Stage 1 children. I added a perimeter wall and interior walls were added with peepholes and a crawl through hole to make three separate areas for the children to play in.
The children can still use the stage for performing, but also for imaginative play and climbing.
As runner up in a competition to design a sustainable back yard garden and promote the encouragement of green space in urban area this design shows how planting and recycled paving materials can transform valuable, underused green space at minimal cost.
The planting is designed to encourage wildlife whilst framing the view from the house and from within the garden for maximum aesthetic appeal.
