Landscape & Urban Design Issue 36 2019 | Page 4

JD REWE LANDSCAPING In the summer of 2018, we undertook Designer Richard Key and we were garden too.Once underway, the initial one of our largest and most exciting excited to explore the drawings and stages of the garden involved striping project to date. learn more about the vision he had the existing lawn and paving back in mind for the space. to a blank canvas. It can sometimes be hard to appreciate how a space We were contacted in November 2017 by a client who had recently The garden would take looks after a transformation and so purchased a new build home in Thame, approximately 10 weeks to build our drone proved extremely useful in Oxfordshire. Their large garden was a with a budget of approximately taking some birds eye view shots of blank canvas of turf and basic paving £60,000. It would incorporate a the work in progress. and they desperately wanted the space complex planting supplied by Folia to reflect the interior of their stylish Europe designed to provide instant The team then began to lay the patio new property. privacy, a trendy and relaxing and construct a large rendered wall, seating area, lawn surrounded with which created the perfect back drop Having sought a designer of their own, metal edgings, a variety of different for the seating area. we were provided with the plans and paving types and an imaginative drawings and asked for a quotation to play area for the younger residents The garden featured lots of other build the proposed landscape. at this home. quirky items such as a drainage The design was created by the We were also asked to design a full useful for the team to work with new, impressive and reputable Garden lighting and irrigation plan for the innovative products and materials. grate by Lateral Design. It is always 4 Landscape & Urban Design Issue 36 2019