Designing landscapes that are beneficial for you and the environment – encouraging wildlife living amongst us, even in the city!
Papillon is French for butterfly – which symbolises a rebirth from an awkward, sometimes ugly, caterpillar confined to walking to a beautiful butterfly which is free to go where it wants and is vibrant with life and colour. This is what we hope to do for your outdoor space.
We are using the materials that the client had onsite already to create an unusual and beautiful garden with a few different socialising areas at different levels to take in the countryside!
A cheaper alternative to walling for a retaining wall is to use gabion baskets (wire baskets). These ones pictured are 1x1x1m and are filled with local quarry stones. This enabled the garden to be flat instead of sloping down by 1m over 2-3m of land – thereby creating much more usable space along the house
Here we were levelling and filling in 4 large concrete base ponds and making the garden a bit smaller next to the house for less upkeep and adding paving and a drystone dyke. The rest of the garden we have lots of native planting along the border and a new veggie garden area – with a greenhouse to be added later.
Getting closer to the finished product
We started with a blank canvas as the client had removed the old mossy turf and planting for us to get started…
Fitting the artificial turf (FINESSE from Scotgreens)
Here is the team from Papillon….
Director and Landscape Designer, Angelique Lawless Robb
Lead Landscaper and Stone Mason, Douglas Gillies
Assistant Landscaper, Daniel Christie
Helper, Jamie Qualters
Before photos – a small slopey garden with not much room to play….
And afterwards… we have doubled the size of the usable space in the garden and alot more atmosphere as well…
and the decking….
And then the lighting was installed!!
Beechgrove before we started….
And after we constructed the new design…
Slate pavers and a change to the entryway to the garden
And…
The central entryway
And the railings will be installed soon too
This actually has nothing to do with a burn… it’s the garden that we’ve constructed at Burns Road! We used natural slate tiles (600x600mm) from The Caledonian Stone Company and reclaimed Aberdonian cassies to give a modern feel to this front and back garden.
Removing all the existing turf and plants and levelling the ground
In progressTurfing the back gardenDetail of the finished cassies, slate, and scottish highland pebbles
Photos of completed project…
Fyvie Schist courtyard walling
Steps leading to the garden...
Second patio area using reclaimed sleepers and red brick
The design of the front garden (as per Sketchup)
And now for the actual photos of the front…
The new entryway off of Holburn Street..
And the curved flower bed…
A different view of the front garden
The railings and the plants are still to be added so it’s not finished yet. Also turfing in the backgarden. So more still to come..