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Orwell Cottage Garden

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

Black basalt setts

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

City garden, Orwell Place

Quirky Street Art

There are two stand-out features of this garden project in central Edinburgh: firstly a trusting client with a desire for a quirky, stylish, intriguing garden, and secondly, the street art on the boundary wall.  The cottage is a

holiday rental

and when I first visited the property, the garden was dirty and bleak.

Neighbourly garden design

The client explained he wanted to create an oasis in this very built-up, urban setting which would offer the whole neighbourhood as well as his guests, a splash of colourful pizzazz to brighten people’s day.  A wee space to sit in the south-facing garden, year round interest in the planting, and attractive well-built paths were all important to him as well.  A nasty looking breeze-block wall sat on two sides of the garden’s boundary so we stabilised it and then rendered it in preparation for

Phil Blake

, street artist extraordinaire, to work his magic.    I then took the colours Phil had used and created a complementary planting scheme using the same pinks, purples and greens.  A bit of texture was added using ornamental grasses and ferns in the shady rear border and a simple larch bench catches sun for much of the day when the weather obliges in summer.  Paving is formed using black basalt setts with polished black pebble detailing and a tatty old fence and mesh were replaced with an elegant privacy trellis.

Award-winning

This project won a prestigious BALI award (British Association of Landscape Industries) in 2022 for Water Gems who built and planted the garden.  The BALI judge made the following comments:

The Orwell Cottage project is a testament to the power of a strong designer, contractor and client trilogy. The client gave the designer an interesting brief which has been responded to very well with a number of interesting design responses given the scale of the site and the location of the

property. In turn this has allowed the contractor to respond with a thoughtful and exacting construction response.

Night-time dimension

Garden lighting installed by

MGD Electrical

adds a wonderful night-time dimension to the garden all year round.  As always, great team work pulled this little gem of a project together with hugs all round from the client on completion!

Completed

2022

Awards

BALI Award 2022

Category

Awards, Landscaping, Lighting, Planting