Highbury Garden

A soft naturalistic style of planting and landscaping ensures a rustic charm.

In this naturalistic Highbury garden a limestone paver focal path leads through soft planting to a raised oak seating spot under a cantilevered pergola enveloped in Wisteria.
In this naturalistic Highbury garden a limestone paver focal path leads through soft planting to a raised oak seating spot under a cantilevered pergola enveloped in Wisteria.
Stage 1

The Brief

Our clients were a young couple undergoing extensive works to their Victorian house, and wanted to ensure a feeling of maturity to their newly constructed garden. Despite its small size, it was important that we provided enough space for entertaining, with ample planting as they are both keen gardeners, and wanted to maintain the space themselves.

Stage 2

Design and Build

We were able to retain and reshape some of the overgrown trees and shrubs, a Sambucus Nigra, an Acer atropurpureum and Magnolia grandiflora, and carefully designed and built around them to ensure that no roots were disturbed. A green screen of high panel Pyrus chanticleer along the rear boundary, provided much needed privacy and seclusion. A subtle palette of natural materials, limestone paving, pavers, and gravel, with oak deck and fencing, off set with lush planting, create a woven tapestry of textures and foliage that work together to shape a naturalistic garden.

An existing Acer frames the view of this Highbury garden using a natural palette of limestone pavers and oak decking, surrounded by planting.
An existing Acer frames the view of this Highbury garden using a natural palette of limestone pavers and oak decking, surrounded by planting.
Quercus oak woven panels were used as boundary fencing on top of the existing brick wall, to provide attractive screening and a soft framework to the garden.
Quercus oak woven panels were used as boundary fencing on top of the existing brick wall, to provide attractive screening and a soft framework to the garden.
Stage 3

Finished Project

Belderbos landscapes worked and collaborated with the onsite team of house builders to ensure a smooth project, during an extensive programme of refurbishment. The finished results are captured beautifully by photographer Kevin Dutton.

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An attractive limestone paver path visually connects to the house window and draws the eye across the garden.
In this Highbury garden an overhanging purple Acer provides an umbrella for the dining space.
Our Highbury clients chose an attractive hardwood slatted outdoor dining table that perfectly compliments the soft natural tones of the hard landscaping.
Naturalistic planting envelops the hard landscaping in this garden to create a green oasis in the heart of london.
Quercus oak fence panels in the background add a rustic charm to this Highbury garden, with stepping stones and gravel softening the hard landscape elements.
The new house extension sits within a garden, enveloped in greenery and soft textures, a focal multi-stem Acer atropurpureum overhangs a gentle water bowl.
The Urbis poppy bowl provides a subtle focal point and water feature within this Highbury garden, beautifully offset by a Japanese acer.
Stepping stones through gravel soften the overall effect of the hard landscaping, and provide a textural contrast to the limestone.
Erigeron tumbles along the edges of this limestone stacker path, softening and complimenting the overall garden scheme.
This stunning hand dressed limestone step is installed as a bespoke single piece, with a subtle shadow gap of 25mm, makes it look lighter and appear to float above the paving.
The Urbis poppy bowl provides a subtle focal point and water feature within this Highbury garden, beautifully offset by a Japanese acer.
Design details are so important in a small garden, beautifully executed here by Belderbos Landscapes, to ensure the balance of materials.
The garden was completely overgrown before landscaping works began, we managed to reshape and retain 3 of the existing trees to give a feeling of maturity to the new garden.
The landscape design plan for this Highbury garden expresses a fluid movement through the garden, whilst following the architectural lines. with a dining area, and lounge seating area under an overhanging pergola.
The landscape visuals help express our intention for the garden, ensuring we convey and articulate the overall scheme at the concept phase of the design process.
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Photos by Kevin Dutton