Welcome back to Garden Ninja today we're in Manchester and we're doing a front
garden transformation so gonna turn this front garden into a formal dream and
we've got Morris and Ball the RHS award winning landscapers here today helping
out our there transform this over the next week and keep you up to date on the
progress I'm gonna turn this into something at the dream garden
The period properties garden was completely overgrown and the client had
asked me to come in to create something that was beautiful but also low
maintenance it also had to be in keeping with the age and style of the property
by using a formal design we could mirror the Georgian proportions of the house it
also gave a clean tidy look to this new front garden and the use of spheres and
repetition of this shape to bring cohesion to the design
So we're nearly at the end of the build today today we will go to the planting so
the terraces we put down with York stone and steps it up I'm now going to plant
up these evergreen box balls and also the Bays trees these are going to feature as the
main structural point of the garden, they are then going to be softened by a bed full
of Lavender, Alliums and some really nice corten steel planters what do now is using
the planting plan that laying out all these ever green shrubs to make sure that
they are in perfect position once I've done that I'll dig a hole and commit them to the ground
So I've got the structure now with the Evergreen Bay trees box balls and now
moving on to the edge these are beautiful Carex that will give
evergreen color and will really soften this edge and then infill it with a load
of Lavender (Lavender hidcoat) to fill all the space over time
burst up with these bright purple scented flowers during the summer and get
those in now and show you the next phase So the hallmark for formal design is
symmetry and repetition what I have done in this garden is repeated this ball shape
through the box and the bay throughout to collects it together as a formal
design I've also used symmetry in edging the design
with the Carex and making sure that everything is in proportion
So the lads have just finished laying the York stone steps are done all pointings finished
and its been left for a few days to set then we've fixed these Corten steel planters
here which I will backfill then plant these beautiful blue Agapanthus so with the
Corten steel planters what's I've done is mirrored the proportion of the Georgian property windows
see that these Georgian window panels there are 4 panels that are symmetrical so the Corten planters
are also still a proportion of equally sized and theres 4 of them which takes your eye
from the planters to the window and back again
The proportions are really key in garden design and if you get them wrong things
can look higgledy-piggledy or just at odds with each other so by taking his windows
mirroring with the planters it helps pull the garden towards the
house make and make it look like one cohesive design. So I'm just about to put
the Blue Agapanthus into these corten steel planters now and
Agapanthus love to have the roots restricted So I;ve put an upside down plant pot
at the bottom of these pots to try and restrict the space because they're quite
tall by restricting the roots you're going to help this to flower because in
those conditions puts all its energy into growth and flowering so restrict the
roots and make sure that you're not putting it to a huge container because
you'll just get loads of foliage and no flowers
So I've just finished this for my front garden make over let's have a look at how it looked before!
So you've got gorgeous York stone steps your stone terrace everything's in
proportion repetition symmetry some really formal planting this will look great all year round
So I'm going to pack up my tools and get on to the next job! If you've liked this video
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