Rennie
Touches of whimsy in a beautiful garden designed for living.
Our Terra Foras design for the outdoor space of this South Aberdeenshire townhouse took inspiration from the look and feel of the flow of classic cottage gardens. In the creation of winding paths and multiple tiers, this garden environment has a whimsical feel and invites all to enjoy doing more “living” outdoors.
The focus for the design was on reworking the levels of the garden to make it more practical and flowing. We incorporated terraces, walls, a pergola, a water bowl, and made use of sheltered spots too.
In terms of textiles and textures, we paired drystone masonry, crisp porcelain for the terraces, and weathering corten steel to make the space visually dynamic. The different colours work alongside, and in contrast to, the coastal colours of the property too.
What really works in this space is the pleached trees to help with privacy. These are placed and shaped at height and will eventually knit together to create a suspended hedge to help block sight from surrounding buildings and to help with the prevailing wind which is a common woe of homeowners in this pretty new town given its position.
In terms of planting, there is a lot of repeated interest created in the garden with the purple, blue and pink colours of nepeta, lavender, dianthus, and salvias to name just a few.
there’s colour and fragrance and a lovely calm feel. It’s a space I want to spend time in
"Adam straight away understood what I wanted / needed – a grown-up garden that is low maintenance and makes the most of the available space, very bee-friendly, with plenty of colour and interest and spaces to enjoy the sun at all times of the day. As for the result – judge for yourselves! I absolutely LOVE it – it’s a complete transformation. There’s colour and fragrance and a lovely calm feel. It’s a space I want to spend time in and is indeed pretty low maintenance. I look around as I sit and can’t quite believe its mine!"
"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.....