The clients needed a large drive and car parking space in front of their house but hated the vast expanse of tarmac, which they had inherited on this steeply sloping site. They also found the unstructured borders and clay based soil difficult to plant up.

The garden design, below, used sweeping curves to link areas of retaining walls with slate on end coping, slate spirals and granite setts and cobbled paths, to create a visually exciting garden, which also supported the cars.

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BALI (British Association of Landscape Industries) National Award winner 2005.