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At the heart of our design approach is a strongly held belief in the simplicity and purity of geometric forms. These forms create clearly defined spaces for relaxing, playing and eating. Plants surrounding these spaces will be aesthetically beautiful, as well as bountiful and rich in produce. Our gardens are alive with plants that create stunning displays. Form, colour, texture and habit will combine with subtle edibility, allowing flowers, leaves, fruits and roots to each play a role in your kitchen. Your garden will be a calm sanctuary, a space designed to function in exactly the way that you and your family intend, with a meticulous attention to detail evident in our project management of your garden build.
Few people are aware of the huge range of plants we can eat or drink. Be it fruits, flowers, stems, leaves, roots, saps, seeds, or nuts, plants are a hugely underused resource, just waiting to be enjoyed. Rather kindly, and with a little planning, they can also provide us with a year-round harvest of ingredients with a minimum of effort. Winter salads, springtime shoots, summer fruits and autumn berries can all be freshly picked a few steps from your kitchen. This bounty of tastes and flavours will add tempting pickings to your trips around the garden, and the freshest possible ingredients to your meals.
Incredible Gardens are all about creating an exciting space where a new experience or opportunity appears at every step. Our gardens will ignite you and your children's natural curiosity as you watch your plants emerge and ripen ready for picking or cutting. It is a year-round harvest, as different species reveal their hidden offerings. Trips into your personal delicatessen, will yield the raw materials for dishes and drinks to surprise and share with family and friends. And all of this outside your back door.
Gardens are a place to relax, unwind, and dream. Our gardens are carefully designed to match the time needed to maintain them at their most beautiful, with the spare time you have available. Our clever use of plants removes the need for annual digging, sowing and weeding, with the most arduous work being the picking, pruning and eating of your haul. If you strive for a kitchen garden and self-sufficiency we can accommodate this (Tim has one himself). Typically though, our gardens are low-input, providing a modest but high quality harvest, rather than being high-input to attain self sufficiency.
Working with nature is far less exhausting for us and the environment than working against her. Our gardens create stable habitats where plants and animals can thrive. This approach reduces disruption to ecosystems and allows species to establish and flourish. Encouraging species such as worms to recycle nutrients underground; bees and butterflies to pollinate flowers and trees; toads and hedgehogs to control predators, reduces the inputs required by your garden. Likewise, the many and varied uses of compost are ways of returning nutrients and life to the soil from the waste products of your garden. We also aim to minimise the use of non-renewable resources and to maximise the capture of rain and the sun's energy. Most of all, growing produce and ingredients in such close proximity to your kitchen dramatically reduces your carbon footprint.
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