Church View.

Reusing salvageable stone to considerately restore retaining walls surrounding a beck built by the client with her late husband whilst adding some additional planting to the garden to create and frame different areas.

The collapsing cement pointed walls were replaced with gabions, dry stone walling and a lime mortared wall, using the locally quarried jurassic oolite clipsham stone.

Now providing an excellent habitat for the many great crested newts living by the water. Other additions include a naturally cropped granite cobble edging to existing the footpaths, new crazed paving pathways in colour matched sandstone, a limestone scree bed with clipsham boulders and a crevice rockery made from leftover walling stone. FSC certified dowelled timber was used to construct raised planters for ease of maintenance and pergolas for height and structure.

trees, shrubs, climbers, mixed perennial planting and alpines for various aspects over shallow chalk and gravels