John Gilbert

The brief for this garden was to create an oasis in the city with an eastern flavour and a dedicated space for meditation. I based the wooden pavilion on traditional Balinese ‘bales’ and used ‘exotics’ such as bamboo, banana and palms as well as more traditional planting.

The ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures here show what a transformation good design and high quality landscaping work can achieve. This garden is, in fact, a work in progress: the tree and shrub planting has been done and the perennials will follow later in the year.