Chichester
Smaller gardens always present a challenge but can also be the most rewarding from a design point of view. This garden located in Roussillon Barracks in Chichester was just this.
Mark used bespoke Corten Steel planters and water trough to break up the space, creating small 'garden rooms' and hidden areas to enjoy through the garden. The horizontal cedar cladding either side of the garden leads your eye down, giving it the appearance of being longer, whilst the large wide step stones give a wide path - expanding either end to give the garden the appearance of width.
The materials used were key to this space: the warm tones of the cedar cladding and corten steel - contrasting the cool uber contemporary Grey York Stone - laid in large smooth step stones across the garden with Cotswold gravel in between.
A crisp rectangular yew hedge was planted up between each of the square corten steel planters and the fencing - continuing this theme of linear form and structure. The ornamental planting was kept very clean and simple, green, white and pops of pink and blue through Agapanthus and Armeria.