Canopy and Furniture - Garden House Design
The Devils in the Detail
Reuse, recycle, up cycle and sustainability are all terms that are widely used within the design and landscape industry. This garden feature incorporates over 60% reused and recycled material, natural stone from the United Kingdom and a bio diverse planting scheme.
We are showing you that recycled materials will have some imperfections, but with professional installation can still look good.
However, included are a number of common faults sometimes found in newly landscaped gardens.
The Devils in the Detail
This has been designed by Artform
Built by (so far) Hardwood landscapes, Bushy Business and Artform.
It couldn't have been completed without the support of the following people and companies.
Garden House Design, The Pergola and furniture.
Cherry Carmen, Garden design and Planting
Form Plants, The Trees
Humblebee Gardeners, The Plants
CED, The Paving
Landscape Plus, The Lighting
Composite Prime, The Decking
Steintec, The permeable mortars
Oase, The Corten Cube Water Feature
Weatherit Ltd, The Corten Cube with Shower Head
Bury Hill Top Soil Soil and Compost for the Planters
Growing Revolution. The Living Wall. (Plantbox)
Products and Support
Corten Water Feature - Oase
Paving and Cobbles - CED
Large Corten Cube - Weatherit Ltd
Living Wall - Growing Revolution
Plants - Humblebee Gardens
Plant List
We have endeavoured to name the plants that are within the garden.
In no particular order, the borders contained.
Astrantia Major Florence
Verbena Bonariensis Lollipop
Erigeron Karvinskianus
Hydrangea Little Limelight
Nepeta Purrsian Blue
Penstemon White Bedder
Achillea Ptarmica Diadem
Silphium Mohrii
Rodgersia Bronze Peacock
Sanguisorba hakusansis Lilac Squirrel
Sanguisorba Tanna
Sanguisorba White Tanna
Nepeta Subsessilis Washfield
Allium In Orbit
Pittosporum Tom Thumb
Pittosporum Golf Ball
Leucanthemum Cream Puff
Salvia Amistad
Achillea Millifolium Pink
Pennisetum (Grass)
Trachleospernum Jasminoides
Campanula Portenschiligiana
Geranium Coombland White
Plants were supplied by Humblebee Gardeners.
So What Were the Faults.
- Paving on LHS of feature was laid with inconsistent jointing. Some joints were as wide as 30mm and some as narrow as 3mm.
- Paving cracked and loose. It is very rare that a professional landscaper would leave a cracked paviour in your project, just check during your snag meeting. Look out for fissures. Loose paviours are paviours that have not bonded. This could be because they have not had SBR on the backs, backs are dusty or have a residue on them. Mortar mix incorrect.
- Deck boards not cut flush to the fascia board, so leaving wide gap.
- Random expansion gaps on deck boards.
- Screws not straight and some proud of the board.
- LHS planting border has sun loving mxd with shade, tall plants at the front. Looks good now, but in time would be a poor border.
- RHS brick wall at end of border is just single skin (1 brick wide). The pressure of water build up in the bed, soil and root growth would eventually make this crack or fail completely.
- LHS brick wall, whilst now incorporating a block behind the brick, still does not contain any weep holes to relieve water pressure, but also bottom course of bricks should be engineering bricks.
- Pond liner ordered too big for water feature, so untidy folds.
Devils in the Detail
Decking Image
Paving Image
Planted Border Image
No weep holes, no engineering brick
Single skin brick wall
Pond Liner not fitting correctly
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