CAMBRIDGE GARDENS

This was a great summer project. I was brought in to help project manage this job as well as get my hands dirty. 

We started off knocking down part of the retaining wall of the garden to build these new steps. We created the formers of the staircase in position, in which to cast the concrete. In the casting we incorporated LED lighting.

New retaining walls were built around the garden, creating raised flower beds planted out with bamboo. At night the bamboo is highlighted by up-lighters. The walls were built using concrete blocks to give strength to hold the dirt back, then rendered and painted white to tie in with the rest of the garden.

Other features of the garden included three benches, an upper decking area with a bespoke made water feature, using the remaining tiles from the new stairs and a lower decked area with one of the three custom built benches.  

These pictures show the lower seating area and the garden in its finished state.

Lighting was a key ingredient to the design of this garden (middle image). Not only did we have LEDs in the steps and up lighters in the flower beds, but further LEDs in the lower deck and wall lights on the back of the property. 

With the addition of two rows of olive trees surrounded by white granite chippings and the two tone Indian lime stone, the garden had a very palatial feel and look, earning it a place as one of the top five gardens in Notting Hill's The Hill Magazine (page 70).