TUFNELL PARK

Project Brief:​

Create a contrasting naturalistic garden to counter the polished concrete of a recent ground floor refurb. Softness and nature to envelope the view. A family garden with a 'secret' doorway, lawn to play, and lots of soft fruits.​

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Diminutive in size, this garden needed to deliver big for a family with young kids. Inclusion of lawn was important for play, however this needed to be balanced with a patio area to dine and enough planting to create a feeling of adventure. The intriguing icing on the cake was a creaky old a half-size garden door in the rear corner of the garden. The fences needed replacing, but it was important that the new design reintegrated this feature back in to the fence. 

 

A garden of two halves was created, with bands of planting across the space to take advantage of the full length views from the bi-fold floor to ceiling windows. A foraging garden was created within the rear half of the garden - complete with strawberries, climbing wineberries, a wonky little plum tree, and a thornless blackberry bush in a feature terracotta urn.

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The front half of the garden received little direct sun and was planted with shade tolerant shrubs, grasses, and herbaceous plants that would flower throughout the seasons.

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The crowning glory was a new spring-flowering multi-stem Yoshino cherry tree - bang in the middle. A tree in the in the middle of a small garden is seldom seen - but it gives the garden such presence and seasonal focus. 

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Photographs by Anna Omiotek-Tott and Taryn Ferris