Circular Raj Green Sandstone with Cobbles - Driveways & Paving

Category: Driveways, Patio, Paving & Walls

Garden Design Project: DWSMPG002

The design brief for this garden was to remove all the grass and reduce the border size to create a low maintenance garden for this elderly couple.

They wanted to incorporate their existing blue bench and Summerhouse into the design.

This is the Garden layout plan resulting from two concept plans.

Keeping in theme with this, so as not to introduce another material, we have used Raj Green Sandstone paving and cobbles and a Raj Green Sandstone 3.76m diameter, three ring circle; each ring was used in a different part of the design.

These are an ideal seat height where the client can tend the borders seated without having to bend down.

As with most of my designs, I like to have some correlation between the property and the garden, with this in mind, each of the circles corresponds to a window or door on the house.

The centre of the main circle is aligned to the rear door and step, the circle to the right is aligned to the patio doors and the small circle to the left is aligned to the bedroom window.

In the two borders either side of the bench, a weed suppressing membrane was laid and 20mm quartz gravel was laid over it at approximately 40mm deep.

As you exit the rear door and step down onto the new garden from the existing steps you can walk around a large outer circle path, constructed with 100x100mm Raj Green Sandstone Cobbles, to the bench and seating area or around to the Summerhouse.

The summerhouse has been moved forward to create storage space and screened off with a tanalised paling fence and gate.

Three Raj Green Sandstone stepping stones are positioned so that you can walk onto the inner sandstone circle; this means that you can navigate around the garden on a hard surface as opposed to walking through gravel.

Submitted By: Michael Palmer
Website: www.mpgardendesigns.co.uk