Case Study: Suburban Garden, Hove

The Brief

The owners wanted a welcoming planting display for their newly renovated house. They wished for a slight coastal feel with bright colours and movement.

The Challenges

Like many front gardens I found a lot of rubble mixed in with the existing flower beds. The renovating builders had used the front garden to be an area for mixing concrete so there was quite a lot of soil pollution. My team dug out all the areas where we were going to plant and added organic soil. The pathways were gravel so we planted through a weed proof membrane to separate the soil from the gravel.