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A relaxing green retreat

This modern garden design uses naturalistic planting combined with bespoke natural stone paving to create a relaxing green space.

Oversize sawn limestone paving units create two distinct seating areas, nestled amongst the naturalistic planting. Limestone gravel offers offers textural interest and lower maintenance gardening. A simple bowl introduces the reflective, calming quality of water.

This garden resonates with the Suffolk countryside while offering a transportive quality, giving the clients the immersive green retreat they were looking for.

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The plant palette of hornbeam, pines, perennials and grasses references the Suffolk landscape, all suiting the free-draining soils of the site.

A unified boundary treatment of hornbeam hedge and pleached hornbeam trees give the garden improved privacy and visual harmony. Four multi-stem hornbeam trees offer sculptural form, helping to shape the space within the garden.

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This garden is a deft balancing act between classic and modern, formal and informal, the manicured and the naturalistic 

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Dwarf pines provide year round texture and structure, while a restrained palette of flowering perennials and grasses add colour, movement and contrast throughout the year.

The large-format limestone paving creates a minimalist contrast with the naturalistic planting, while the staggered, asymmetric layout and planted paving joints seamlessly integrate the hard and soft elements of the garden.

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Colm Joseph suffolk garden design limestone paving creeping flowering thyme gravel alchemilla mollis dwarf pines Richard Bloom Photography
Colm Joseph suffolk garden design water feature bowl limestone paving dwarf pines creeping thyme salvia caradonna Richard Bloom Photography

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This design creates an immersive modern town garden for relaxed living.
Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer planting design creeping flowering thyme gaura whirling butterflies alchemilla mollis euphorbia myrsinites multi stem hornbeam Richard Bloom Photography
Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer multi stem hornbeam tree water bowl dwarf pines sesleria autumnalis salvia caradonna Richard Bloom Photography

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