Teddington

This large family garden was designed for a fashion designer and a photographer, both with a very keen aesthetic, while they renovated their detached Victorian house and built a new extension and studio. The south-facing rear garden includes a cooking area with a pergola, built-in benches surrounding a sunken fire pit and a dining area. A checkerboard of pavers links this terrace to the the shaded garden to the west, which was left predominantly to lawn beneath two magnificent Cedar trees. A sheltered Courtyard garden, enclosed by the kitchen, studio and link building has been planted as a gravel garden, where plants are left to self-seed and spread to form a carpet beneath the cinnamon coloured bark of a multi-stemmed Acer griseum.