A Modern Terraced Garden

Our clients had a garden with terrible drainage making it unusable for large parts of the year. It also had little interest or greenery. Our brief was to sort the drainage and make the upper level usable including a new lawn area and planting. At the lower area the clients wanted a large patio space for lounge and dining as well as space to add a garden room in the future. In built seating was also on the wish list along with storage to create a modern terraced garden.

Beautiful quartz clad walls and porcelain paving

"Our back garden is now the space we had always hoped for and I would highly recommend Vialii Gardens to anyone requiring a garden transformation."

Before

After

The less glamorous parts of garden designs are commonly the most important – drainage, infrastructure, storage etc. And this garden needed all of those things. A lot of time and money was spent on drainage and ensuring the upper level was going to be usable as well as leveling this area out to further improve the usability. We then added raised beds, in-built seating, planting in gravel and new lawn.

At the lower level, we created a new retaining wall which was clad with stunning quartz. Raised beds were built with more in-built seating giving options of different places to sit around the garden.

Beautiful porcelain paving was used to create a large patio area for relaxing and dining. Space was also allocated for a future garden room.

To the side of the house, a large bespoke shed was built to give ample storage solutions.

A beautiful mix of planting was added to create interest and texture all year round including shrubs such as viburnum, hydrangea, syringa and skimmia along with herbaceous plants including verbascum, rudbeckia and echinacea. Decorative grasses and bulbs were also added to the garden.

To complete the garden, beautiful lighting was added including strip lighting on the walls and steps and up-lighters among the planting so the garden can be enjoyed day and night.