Steep Hillside Garden Description: Set on the side of the rocky hillside of Howth Head, this steep sloping garden presented as a big challenge to design and construct. Burnt Oak Sleepers, local stone terraced walls create accessable space within the garden for planting and relaxation. The planting was carefully selected with a dominance of ornamental [...]
Terraced Walled Garden Location: Malahide, Co. Dublin Status: Phase 3 complete, August 2017 Details: Set in an exclusive housing estate in Malahide, this large garden began in 2015 as a blank canvas. A transformative garden design carried out over two years is almost complete. New terraced Donegal Sandstone walls create spacious planting beds dividing the 1.5m [...]
Contemporary Garden Design Location: Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 Status: completed Summer 2017 Details: Set in Leafy Dublin 4, The site consists of a front and back garden. The brief was to create a garden that was in keeping with the area and complement the contemporary clean lines of the new house. The hard landscaping palette consisted [...]
Contemporary Entertainment Garden Location: Drumcondra, Dublin 6 Features: Raised rendered & painted walls and planters. Black Limestone Patio areas & Stepping stones through golden gravel. Custom made shed and bin-store. Timber Wall cladding and bespoke timber bench. Garden downlighters on walls and uplighters to planting areas. Planting: Specimens of Acer palmatum, Bay Laurel and Phyllostachys [...]
Small Stylish Courtyard Garden Location: Sutton, Co. Dublin Features: Raised Donegal quartz planting beds with yellow granite capping enclosing and defining the courtyard spaces. Yellow granite patio areas with Nida-Gravel Path to back gate, shed and binstore. Custom Cedar benches, bin-store, gate and door to newly built garden storage shed. Planting: Specimens of Acer palmatum, [...]
Decked Out-Chilled out Garden Location: Portmarnock, Co. Dublin Features: Hardwood Deck walkway linking two decked seating areas. Custom Garden room. Boundary cladding in timber ship-lap. Quartz cobble lawn edging. Raised Vegetable beds. Planting: The main borders have a mix of herbaceous and shrub specimens giving good all year round colour. A box hedge bounds this [...]
Country House Garden Location: Ashbourne, Co. Meath Features: New Driveway consisting of alternating granite cobble fans and nida-gravel stabaliser surface. New Entrance planting beds were created with a new raised granite cobble edge. New bespoke entrance step with lighting to front door. Extensive semi-Mature tree & hedge planting across the garden. New mixed planting beds [...]
Three Show House Gardens for Residential Development Location: Drumcondra, Dublin 9 Status: Launch Date 13th May 2017 Features: Patio areas:Acheson & Glover Paving Flags and slate sett detail, Hit & Miss boundary fencing painted black. 6'x4' Sheds by "Boyne Garden Sheds" Planting: Specimens: Japanese Maples, Box Balls at various sizes, Photinia red Robin Standards, Prunus [...]
Landscape Open Space Design for Private Development Location: Dalkey, Co. Dublin Status: Complete Features: Circulation paths with granite cobble edge and nida-gravel with pea gravel surface. Timber bollards with Marine Rope. Beach cobble surface to planting beds. Up-lighting and Irrigation. Planting: Specimens: Box balls, Specimen Olive Trees. Bay Laurel & Pyracantha Hedging.
Tralee Garden Design Location: Tralee, Co. Kerry Status: Completed Autumn 2016 Description: This garden design consists of sweeping curves around a new house extension. New hardwood deck with feature curved seat walls create a great space in the garden for relaxation or entertainment. Flowing gravel paths and planting beds connect new paving and front driveway [...]
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