Ferne

Projects

Gardens We've Created.

A selection of completed transformations — each a brief, a design and a finished garden.

Contemporary Family Garden — Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Full Design & Landscaping

Contemporary Family Garden

Harpenden, Hertfordshire

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The Brief

A young family with an awkward sloping lawn wanted a garden that worked for children, entertaining and a love of planting — without feeling like a compromise.

The Design

We terraced the slope into two clear levels: an upper terrace for dining and a lower lawn for play. Crisp porcelain paving and a low oak pergola frame the seating, while deep borders soften the edges.

The Result

A garden that holds together as one space but lets different parts of family life happen at once — open enough to run, intimate enough to sit out in the evening.

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The same garden before landscaping — tired lawn, broken paving and overgrown beds
Before — the original garden
Built-in outdoor seating nook at dusk
Built-in seating nook
Structured perennial planting detail
Border planting detail
Luxury Outdoor Kitchen — Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

Outdoor Living

Luxury Outdoor Kitchen

Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

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The Brief

Keen cooks who entertain all summer wanted a fully working outdoor kitchen and lounge that felt like a genuine extension of the house.

The Design

A stone-clad kitchen with integrated grill, fridge and storage sits under a steel-and-timber pergola, facing a lounge area with a fire pit. Lighting was designed for cooking and for lingering.

The Result

An outdoor room that gets used from spring to autumn — the family now cook outside three or four evenings a week through the warmer months.

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Outdoor kitchen and lounge at dusk
Outdoor kitchen at dusk
Detail of outdoor kitchen stone worktop and brass tap
Stone worktop & brass detail
Outdoor dining table beside the kitchen at dusk
Dining at dusk
Steel and timber pergola over the kitchen
Pergola structure
Compact Urban Garden — St Albans, Hertfordshire

Garden Design & Planting

Compact Urban Garden

St Albans, Hertfordshire

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The Brief

A small courtyard behind a townhouse that felt cramped and unused. The owners wanted it to feel larger, calmer and more intentional.

The Design

We kept materials pale and consistent — large-format porcelain and a single specimen tree — and used vertical planting to draw the eye up rather than out. Every element earns its place.

The Result

A modest space that now feels generous: calm, architectural, and easy to maintain, with structure that changes beautifully through the seasons.

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Compact urban courtyard garden with pale paving
The completed courtyard
Architectural specimen plant in a tapered planter
Specimen planting
Detail of porcelain paving and stone junction
Paving detail
Garden pathway through planting
Linear planting
Traditional Country Garden — Petersfield, Hampshire

Planting & Soft Landscaping

Traditional Country Garden

Petersfield, Hampshire

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The Brief

A period property with a tired, open lawn. The owners wanted the romance of an English country garden — borders, structure and a sense of enclosure.

The Design

We introduced a gravel path that loops the space, deep herbaceous borders and a framework of clipped evergreens to hold the garden together in winter.

The Result

A garden that feels established far sooner than expected — full, romantic and full of life through the summer, with strong bones for the colder months.

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Traditional English country garden with herbaceous borders
Herbaceous borders
Gravel path winding through perennial planting
Gravel path
Close-up of cottage garden perennial border
Border detail
Manicured lawn framed by planting
Framed lawn
Modern Entertaining Space — Radlett, Hertfordshire

Patios, Lighting & Living

Modern Entertaining Space

Radlett, Hertfordshire

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The Brief

A blank rear garden that the owners wanted to use for evening entertaining — somewhere to gather a group, cook and stay out late.

The Design

A wide stone terrace, a fire pit lounge and layered lighting. Planting is kept architectural and low, so the space reads as a clean stage for people rather than a busy border.

The Result

A garden built around the evening — warm, open and genuinely usable for groups, with lighting that transforms it after dark.

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Modern entertaining space with fire pit at dusk
Fire pit at dusk
Garden lighting at dusk with uplit tree
Layered lighting
Wide stone terrace
Stone terrace
Stone terrace and shadow detail at dusk
Material & light
A garden at dusk

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