The Stables, Clapton

With this project, we set out to create a garden that compliments the beautiful house renovation works designed by architecture firm Sanchez Benton.

The garden already benefited from a number of mature trees, a converted stable yard next door and an old WW2 Anderson bomb shelter, so the design centred around these features.

Stableyard cobbles were a fitting choice given the history of the site, and we created two separate seating areas connected by a self-binding gravel path. For the fencing, we sourced reclaimed corrugated tin panels to tie into the bomb shelter, which we renovated to be a garden shed.

We had a lot of fun bringing out the rusty tones of the fencing through the planting scheme. The seedheads of the tall ornamental grass Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' do this perfectly, while also adding height and movement.