Recent garden designs & works Drogheda co.Louth

Cold grey boundary walls in a garden Grange Rath, Drogheda

New rendered walls, trellis and raised bed.

This garden in Grange Rath, Drogheda had a cool and grey unattractive presence. It had no character or style about it and cried out to be re designed and  planted to become a real garden.

We decided that the walls would be the first thing to receive attention. They would be rendered using white cement giving a bright clean contemporary look. Some trellis and a mixture of climbing roses, scented honeysuckle and scented jasmine would provide seasonal colour and fragrance as well as attracting beneficial insects such as our native bees.

The curved raised beds juxtaposed the straight lines of the boundary walls and united the rear  of the garden and shed. This was created using a combination of  kerbs for height and a brick mowing edge for ease of grass cutting ( no strimming or hairy edges against the raised beds).


The planting consisted of two silver bitch to provide some screening above the wall later on and a mixture of cottage perrenials and a Japanese maple for seasonal colour. a simple yet very effective to soften an unappealing rear wall.



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Rear garden Newfield, Drogheda, co.Louth 

Garden before with constrained seating area.

Patio design garden Newfield, Droghead

Indian sandstone circle and granite paving surround.

Finished patio and rendered wall.

This garden in Newfield, Drogheda had  a great aspect facing south west but its owners hadn't any patio space to enjoy sitting outdoors. They wanted a patio with some designed character that would contrast the squareness of their garden and would look bright and atrractive throughout the year.
 






We decided on using a 3m Indian Sandstone circle for the centre piece and gold granite slabs for the surrounds with a brick dividing circumference to the edge of the circle.
The garden sloped towards the house so it was neccesary to step the edge of the patio with a small kerb that would run flush with lawn for the ease of grass cutting. As the patio would slope towards the house it was also necessary to install and a linear channel to carry the water away from the house and back door to the main drain at the back of the garden.

The finished patio of approximatively 23sqm  had ample space now to enjoy sitting and eating outdoors and united the house with the garden and terrace.