Purpose-built structures like this one, which combine climbing, sliding and swinging with a playhouse are highly popular at the moment. We installed this earlier this summer on a bed of sterilised wood bark to ensure a soft landing. It has been heavily used from day one…

The play equipment was sited at the bottom of the garden. The remainder of the plot was also completely redesigned so that the children could have a lawn for games while adults could sit and relax amongst attractive shrub and perennial planting.

The ‘before’ picture, above, shows a garden laid out very much for adults; now, see below, it has a good-sized lawn for football and other games. The planting has been designed to be robust and child-tolerant!

Below is another garden designed with children in mind: here the lawn provides a child-friendly surface. In this case the client was keen for the play area to be clearly visible from the house.