Category: Pete’s Blog
Split Level Indian Patio Design Whitchurch Berkshire
The clients brief was to make this awkward sloping garden into a family friendly and usable outdoor space. Pete designed a split level patio with built in stone bench and planter to retain the higher end and make a feature … more…
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Water Garden in Henley with natural pond
Full construction pictures of this water garden in Henley we designed and built and have now returned to sculpt and shape the large bank behind to make it a more usable space. This water garden includes a large natural pond … more…
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Building a formal pond in Pangbourne Berkshire
Here’s the full construction pictures in a video of the formal pond we designed and built in Pangbourne Berkshire as shown in our galleries . We removed the original ornamental pond and reworked the area to create a water garden with a … more…
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Wet wall water feature cascade with natural effect stream
This water garden starts as a stream running through the top garden to a small pool which gives the effect of spilling over and flowing over the natural stone wall in an impressive cascade as the main feature of the … more…
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Garden fireplace chimneys and fire pits
Extend your time in the garden even when the air gets a bit chilly by having a fire pit or garden fireplace/chimney – there’s nothing like the warmth and flickering of a fire, the stars above and a nice glass of something … more…
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Pete Sims Garden Design new video advertisement
Check out our new short video giving a brief overview of some of our previous garden projects http://youtu.be/03Hi-l1LCJQ
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Pete Sims Garden Design projects are published !!
We are very proud to be apart of the book ‘Sunken Landscape Design’ published in English and Chinese. Two of our water gardens feature alongside some amazing work by prestigious designers over 2 categories, 6 pages in each.
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formal pond one year on – Pete Sims Garden Design
We popped back to complete the annual maintenance on this Victorian pond renovation from last year. The planting is establishing nicely and its looking lovely – just a shame the fountain wasn’t on for the photo
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Front garden large bed Planting
Today we are completing the final planting of present project. We have created a water garden and a walled garden for this client and are now adding colour to their front driveway. Lots more photos of all these gardens to follow … more…
Posted in Pete's Blog Tagged border planting ideas, colourful border planting, flower bed planting ideas, garden design Berkshire, garden design Henley, garden design Surrey, Henley garden design, herbaeceous perennials, ideas for colourful planting, ideas for planting a large border, Pete Sims garden design, planting a flower bed, planting a flower border, planting a front garden, planting schemes, planting schemes using herbaceous perennials Comments Off on Front garden large bed Planting
Small pond one year on
Thank you to our client who sent us these recent photos of their pond which we completed last year. It is maturing nicely…….
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