Papillon Designs and Landscaping

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 currently working on the following projects…

• Ythanbank, see our Facebook site for ongoing photos of the job – final photos will be put on our website once it’s complete
• Artificial turf and decking in Nigg
• Conquering a wilderness area in Kintore
• Making a Coull garden in Kingswells
• Modernising a windswept Maryculter
• Turfing and edging in Kirkton of Rayne

We are now booking for August 2012 onwards – so ring us soon to get your garden booked in!  It’s never too early to start thinking of your garden.  Often it takes 2-3 months of planning to come up with the best design for your space.

This garden had three different levels with a huge amount of the garden taken up with the grass slopes between each level.  The client wanted paving and a patio – but everything else was up for discussion….

Looking out the back doors into the garden at the slopes

Therefore I proposed putting in retaining walls in order to ‘free up’ some of the land / space that was locked up in the slopes.  The retaining walls were just one part of the design – the other part was curves to lead you from one side of the garden to the other. The retaining walls didn’t completely suit the client – as with young children, the retaining walls would lend itself to many blind spots in the garden.  Therefore a compromise was reached and the plans are beginning to take shape….

The patio will be sunk into the first slope so that the patio isn't too close to the house

Now the hard landscaping has been finished, we’re just waiting for the springtime to implement the planting plan!! So it looks a bit bare – but check back in the spring for more updates on this garden…

Here is what it looks like now…

This garden – see before photo below….

The garden had concrete pavers and overgrown shrubs that were not flattering to the house

And the re-done garden – which uses pebbles called ‘oyster pearl’ to help blend the existing paving with the granite house.  The plants were chosen for their foliage to add year-round colour and interest.

By using an aggregate that blends the house with the paving, the overall look is softened.