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Suffolk garden

A relaxing green retreat

This modern garden design uses naturalistic planting combined with bespoke natural stone paving to create a relaxing green space.

Oversize sawn limestone paving units create two distinct seating areas, nestled amongst the naturalistic planting. Limestone gravel offers offers textural interest and lower maintenance gardening. A simple bowl introduces the reflective, calming quality of water.

This garden resonates with the Suffolk countryside while offering a transportive quality, giving the clients the immersive green retreat they were looking for.

Colm Joseph Suffolk garden design dining area multi stem hornbeam pleached trees limestone paving gravel thyme dwarf pines Sesleria alchemilla mollis Richard Bloom Photography

Colm Joseph Suffolk garden designer pleached trees hornbeam contemporary design limestone paving dwarf pines naturalistic planting

Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer water feature bowl limestone paving creeping thyme salvia caradonna Erigeron karvinskianus

Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer water feature bowl hornbeam pleached trees limestone paving dwarf pines creeping thyme Richard Bloom Photography

The plant palette of hornbeam, pines, perennials and grasses references the Suffolk landscape, all suiting the free-draining soils of the site.

A unified boundary treatment of hornbeam hedge and pleached hornbeam trees give the garden improved privacy and visual harmony. Four multi-stem hornbeam trees offer sculptural form, helping to shape the space within the garden.

Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer seating area hornbeam multi-stem pleached trees limestone paving dwarf pines Richard Bloom Photography

Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer multi stem hornbeam pleached trees limestone paving creeping flowering thyme sesleria autumnalis Richard Bloom Photography

Colm Joseph suffolk garden designer planting design sesleria autumnalis dwarf pine Richard Bloom Photography

Colm Joseph suffolk garden design seating planting designer gaura whirling butterflies sesleria autumnalis Richard Bloom Photography

This garden is a deft balancing act between classic and modern, formal and informal, the manicured and the naturalistic

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Colm Joseph Suffolk garden design pleached trees hornbeam contemporary design water bowl limestone paving

Suffolk garden designer multi stem tree water bowl seating area natural planting pleached trees Colm Joseph

Dwarf pines provide year round texture and structure, while a restrained palette of flowering perennials and grasses add colour, movement and contrast throughout the year.

The large-format limestone paving creates a minimalist contrast with the naturalistic planting, while the staggered, asymmetric layout and planted paving joints seamlessly integrate the hard and soft elements of the garden.