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A family garden for flexible entertaining, with several seating
areas, a timber boardwalk, waterfeature and colourful planting including a large palm tree. Completed
in 2002.
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One of two show gardens, that Heather designed, for
a new residential development in Norwich
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A front garden with box globes and phormiums
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This design for a small garden of a new house included
circles of bonded resin and sandstone paving, all edged with square, silver-grey granite setts.
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This garden was overlooked and over-the-hill!
The client requested
'a real garden that I can sit in and enjoy'
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A plant collectors garden
A mature, 35ft high, beech tree dominated this garden.The soil was very tired and low
in nutrients so had to be extensively re-conditioned with soil improvers and fertilizers. When the photographs
were taken the garden was only four years old but looking very established. Plants included cardoon, sambucus
racemosa 'Sutherland's Gold', phormiums, roses, iris sibirica, penstemon and the highly toxic but highly
irresistible 'American pokeweed'
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The watercolour masterplan for a memorial garden
A large country garden
This
large garden required updating and refurbishing. The timber pergola and summerhouse were painted with Cuprinol Garden
Shades 'Willow'. Beneath the pergola, a gravel path with paving slabs laid in a random pattern, was
installed with an edging of granite setts. A new seating area was designed using sandstone paving and nearby a new
planting bed was created featuring trachycarpus fortunei, the windmill palm . Around the garden existing
flower beds were extended, reshaped and planted with colourful shrubs, perennials and ground-cover.
Heather returns
to this garden regularly to continue its development.
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A
watercolour masterplan, for the garden of a new house, showing paved seating areas, paths, ornamental features and
planting.
A Courtyard Garden
The design brief included a
deck, high screening from nearby flats, and most importantly access through the garden, as there was a public
right of way, for neighbouring gardens.
A Formal Front Garden
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A Small
Town Garden
A small garden designed for flexible outdoor entertaining. The rotary washing line can be removed
to provide an additional seating area for table and chairs. Heather's signature planting includes Artemisia ludoviciana
'Valerie Finnis'.
All the plans and photos used in this website
are from projects that Heather's Gardens have designed. Heather also supervised the construction and planting of these
gardens to final completion. (except for A Romantic Topiary Garden where the hard-landscaping was already in place)
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| Elaeagnus 'Quick Silver' |
| This garden has no lawn yet there is grass! |
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A Formal Front Garden
A Front Garden with Structure and Form
| A Front Garden with Structure and Form |
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| Columns of Irish golden yew, globes of box and pittosporum 'Tom Thumb' |
Bournemouth Garden
Every photograph on this website is taken from one of
our gardens or hand-drawn plans. All images are copyright of Heather Ritter.
I visit the site regularly during construction to liase
with the landscaper. We have frequent meetings and telephone conversations to discuss progress and any problems we may encounter.
I then source, select, order and arrange delivery of trees, plants, top soil, compost and conditioners. The planting is overseen
to completion, one of the most enjoyable tasks. I source, select, order and arrange delivery and installation of features
such as water fountains, metalwork, planters, lighting and irrigation, essentially, anything required within the garden. I
also supply planting advice sheets, giving details of care and pruning.
| Planting of kniphofia, lavender and seaholly |
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| Drive before work started |
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| Drive after work completed |
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| A Romantic Topiary Garden |
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| A Front Garden For Wildlife |
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Contact Heather:
Telephone: 01622 762764
Email: heathermritter@hotmail.com
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