Garden Examples

Current Project - Complementary Garden

Jane McCourt from Compare Your Body (www.compareyourbody.com) commissioned Artscape Design & Build Ltd to design a complementary garden for her.

Compare Your Body is passionate about health and wellbeing, using a range of chemical-free products and natural methods in their treatments. With this in mind, the brief was to design a garden that would incorporate a range of plants that have proven natural benefits. It needed to provide an ideal location to hold events and seminars on natural therapies and also to be used as a family garden.

Jane wanted to have two seating areas, one in the sun and the other as an evening area where she and her family could view the garden from.  Paths were needed to link the different areas, borders for growing a range of medicinal, culinary and cosmetic plants in, as well as an area for growing vegetables that could be used in raw food and for juicing.

The design includes a circular paved area in one corner of the garden, large enough for a table and chairs, along with a water feature close by. This is to be surrounded by planting that not only is attractive but also offers natural benefits too. Two bands of hedging sweep across the garden providing structure and divide up the garden borders so that each border can be planted with a particular group of plants, such as vegetables in one area and plants which have medicinal properties in another.

The hedging also draws the eye down the garden to the raised deck and from here the entire garden can be viewed.  A path leads from the terrace by the house to the utility area at the back of the garden. Here the less attractive plants, though still equally important, can be planted such as nettles, along with areas for composting and a wormery.

As the garden is to be used by Jane and her clients, the planting for the garden has been carefully considered; the plants have been chosen so that they can be used in some form or another. Some have been chosen that can be eaten, taken as a juice or as a tisane, such as chamomile. Others may be used as a teaching aid as they have natural benefits that have to be extracted. Plants such as arnica, dog rose, St John’s ort and milk thistle are just a few that are to be used.

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