Maximising the potential of a multi-level space

Designer:
Rob Hughes
Area:
1200m2
Location:
Warrington
Buildtime:
6 months

Gardens on different levels offer challenges but allow for more creativity and interesting spaces. 

Working with designer, Rob Hughes, we delivered a scheme that maximises every corner of this garden and gives the owner places to entertain and relax all year round. 

Garden with outdoor seating, water feature, layered planting and stone paths.

We installed an amphitheatre style lawn area, sculpting the terraces and reinforcing with steel edges. These floating steps provide extra summer seating and are planted with thyme to give a beautiful scent and purple flowers.

Tiered garden with stone steps, seating area, and water feature.
Wide timber steps leading through a planted, multi-level garden.
Low planting in front of a vertical timber-clad garden wall.

Combining a new wall with natural silver birch screens gives privacy and adds winter interest to the boundaries. We planted deep sunny borders with plenty of pollinators, asters and perovskia. Creating a naturalistic scheme in a flowing matrix, including a drift of verbena to draw the eye up the slope. 

Mixed garden planting with tall grasses and colourful flowering perennials.
Garden with bold foliage and layered naturalistic planting.

When it came to hard landscaping, we built a flat-roofed garden pavilion and decking, stepped areas in multiple materials, and a custom self-circulating water feature.

Garden water feature with layered planting and raised corten steel trough.
Modern garden with timber pathways and mixed perennial planting.

The varying levels meant precision was key in this project. Every millimetre mattered in the block clad wall and we set a decking area within the porcelain floor to ensure ample drainage. 

A garden built for entertaining needed the smart-tech to match so we installed data cables, surround-sound speakers in the planters and pavilion, and Wi-Fi boosters throughout.

Stepped stone pathway with colourful planting and tiered lawn terraces.
Outdoor seating area with timber steps and water feature.