Farquharson
A delight for the bees in this coastal style garden.
This new-town property in South Aberdeenshire is a sunny plot that the Terra Foras team designed and constructed as a very low-maintenance, climate-resistant garden.
The design focus here was on making the most of the perma shade wet areas and in making the once lawned, sloped garden a more well-connected and practical space for the homeowner to admire and for wildlife to thrive in.
With coastal vibes, highlighted by the beach pebbles lining the wide paths, this space is a great play place for wildlife, including swarms of bees and beautiful butterflies (seen in droves as soon as 12 months after work started at the property).
A mix of steps was created using timber, sandstone, and corten edging. The mixed textiles give a rustic, coastal look, and the lack of definition in the wide paths, with sprawling edges, made it the ideal environment to use self-binding gravel that creates a flowing look and feel throughout.
The sandstone patio area (ideal for entertaining or just sitting for an alfresco cup of coffee) is surrounded by lots of drought-tolerant native planting, and the ferns and trees around the edges help create height and softens the fenced boundary.
"When we returned to Aberdeen from London after twenty two years, we left behind a really nice garden which we had developed once the kids stopped playing football. While we liked our new house very much, the garden was a major disappointment. It was a small town plot, which we couldn’t change.....
"We needed to undertake a major overhaul of our garden once our house was built. We did not really have a ‘vision’ and needed someone with the expertise in both design and knowledge of flora and fauna.....
"When we contacted Terra Foras our city centre back garden was overgrown, uneven, difficult to keep on top of and lacked a decent seating area. It was desperately needing a makeover on a big scale, so we knew we needed to get the professionals in.....
“Our garden was looking uncared for due to the structure of the garden making it difficult. It wasn't suitable to give our children the freedom to play in it with some features making it unsafe. We also didn’t have the time needed, to maintain it properly as it was.....
"It was Terra Foras’s design led approach and innovative thinking that attracted us to them. We hoped the garden redesign would create a visually exciting and very useable external space. This has, without question, been achieved.....
"When we returned to Aberdeen from London after twenty two years, we left behind a really nice garden which we had developed once the kids stopped playing football. While we liked our new house very much, the garden was a major disappointment. It was a small town plot, which we couldn’t change.....
"We needed to undertake a major overhaul of our garden once our house was built. We did not really have a ‘vision’ and needed someone with the expertise in both design and knowledge of flora and fauna.....
"When we contacted Terra Foras our city centre back garden was overgrown, uneven, difficult to keep on top of and lacked a decent seating area. It was desperately needing a makeover on a big scale, so we knew we needed to get the professionals in.....
“Our garden was looking uncared for due to the structure of the garden making it difficult. It wasn't suitable to give our children the freedom to play in it with some features making it unsafe. We also didn’t have the time needed, to maintain it properly as it was.....
"It was Terra Foras’s design led approach and innovative thinking that attracted us to them. We hoped the garden redesign would create a visually exciting and very useable external space. This has, without question, been achieved.....