Classic Garden with topairy & urns
Surbiton
Finished June 2024 by All Things Green
A beautiful old house that deserves a classical garden with urns, benches, topairy, and beautiful paving and plants. It also needs to be a family garden with plenty of lawn, space for dining on a dappled terrace, a BBQ area, and a sympathetic deck in the shade at the end of the garden under the large beech tree.
The paving is limestone to compliment the house laid in a random linear pattern, with a pretty traditional Lutyens bench halfway down the lawn flanked with classical stone urns to either side. There are a series of paths leading to different areas of the garden - stepping stones in the lawn to the deck and a hidden self-binding gravel path to the the garden room behind the garden screen. This is a beautiful painted timber trellis created to provide a backdrop for the Haddonstone vase and plinth, and is surrounded by a mass of white hydrangeas and low evergreen hedges.
The planting is simple and robust to withstand footballs and cricket balls, but will be very pretty and easy to maintain.

Master plan

Mood board

Screen for urn

Plants

Planting plan

Under construction

View from kitchen of dappled terrace

Limestone paving

Planting day

Planting day

Planting day

Planting the urn

Before photo of garden

Before photo of garden

Before photo of garden