Family Garden, Clapham

The owners of this South London garden wanted to extend their entertaining and outdoor dining space, so we laid large slate tiles leading out from the kitchen, incorporated cement-rendered walls to provide planting beds and built-in seating, and built a raised bed.

We used sleepers for the seats, which tied in with the sleepers that formed the edge of the planting beds at the end of the garden. We planted some Ligustrum japonicum trees at the end of the garden to provide some screening from the neighbours and also put in a contemporary pergola to give a bit of structure, which can also be used for the children’s swings.

We also added monkey bars to an already existing play structure and painted it all one colour, so it all blended in. Mobile spotlights were installed to uplight the planting in the surrounding beds, creating a lovely, atmospheric effect.

Rachel Hartley Garden Design

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