Formal Front Garden Design Makeover - YouTube

Welcome back to Garden Ninja today we're in Manchester and we're doing a front

garden transformation so gonna turn this front garden into a formal dream and

we've got Morris and Ball the RHS award winning landscapers here today helping

out our there transform this over the next week and keep you up to date on the

progress I'm gonna turn this into something at the dream garden

The period properties garden was completely overgrown and the client had

asked me to come in to create something that was beautiful but also low

maintenance it also had to be in keeping with the age and style of the property

by using a formal design we could mirror the Georgian proportions of the house it

also gave a clean tidy look to this new front garden and the use of spheres and

repetition of this shape to bring cohesion to the design

So we're nearly at the end of the build today today we will go to the planting so

the terraces we put down with York stone and steps it up I'm now going to plant

up these evergreen box balls and also the Bays trees these are going to feature as the

main structural point of the garden, they are then going to be softened by a bed full

of Lavender, Alliums and some really nice corten steel planters what do now is using

the planting plan that laying out all these ever green shrubs to make sure that

they are in perfect position once I've done that I'll dig a hole and commit them to the ground

So I've got the structure now with the Evergreen Bay trees box balls and now

moving on to the edge these are beautiful Carex that will give

evergreen color and will really soften this edge and then infill it with a load

of Lavender (Lavender hidcoat) to fill all the space over time

burst up with these bright purple scented flowers during the summer and get

those in now and show you the next phase So the hallmark for formal design is

symmetry and repetition what I have done in this garden is repeated this ball shape

through the box and the bay throughout to collects it together as a formal

design I've also used symmetry in edging the design

with the Carex and making sure that everything is in proportion

So the lads have just finished laying the York stone steps are done all pointings finished

and its been left for a few days to set then we've fixed these Corten steel planters

here which I will backfill then plant these beautiful blue Agapanthus so with the

Corten steel planters what's I've done is mirrored the proportion of the Georgian property windows

see that these Georgian window panels there are 4 panels that are symmetrical so the Corten planters

are also still a proportion of equally sized and theres 4 of them which takes your eye

from the planters to the window and back again

The proportions are really key in garden design and if you get them wrong things

can look higgledy-piggledy or just at odds with each other so by taking his windows

mirroring with the planters it helps pull the garden towards the

house make and make it look like one cohesive design. So I'm just about to put

the Blue Agapanthus into these corten steel planters now and

Agapanthus love to have the roots restricted So I;ve put an upside down plant pot

at the bottom of these pots to try and restrict the space because they're quite

tall by restricting the roots you're going to help this to flower because in

those conditions puts all its energy into growth and flowering so restrict the

roots and make sure that you're not putting it to a huge container because

you'll just get loads of foliage and no flowers

So I've just finished this for my front garden make over let's have a look at how it looked before!

So you've got gorgeous York stone steps your stone terrace everything's in

proportion repetition symmetry some really formal planting this will look great all year round

So I'm going to pack up my tools and get on to the next job! If you've liked this video

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