Large Garden with Treehouse, Beckenham

Overview

This home in Beckenham had had an entire home renovation, including digging out the basement to create a lower terrace with a hot tub and raised dining terrace.

The Brief & Design Concept

The brief was for a large family garden that incorporated ample room for play, flowers and growing vegetables. This included:

• A large level lawn for the three boys to play football.
• Screening of the neighbour’s fence for interest, which was long and tedious.
• An area at the back of the garden to grow vegetables and flowers.
• More privacy in the raised terrace area.
• The addition of a treehouse.

The Process

To achieve this vision, we went through the following steps:

• We graded (levelled) the lawn area with tons of topsoil: 260m2 of turf was laid, then watered.
• We devised a large swath of planting to the left-hand side of the garden to draw the eye away from the fence.
• We planted up the long flower border and terrace planters in late spring and added irrigation to ensure the planting would flourish over the hot, dry summers.
• A fantastic treehouse was created by Root and Shoot, who are based in Forest Hill.
• We set aside the orchard area as a wildflower meadow.