Heather's Gardens create beautiful landscapes in Kent, Surrey, Sussex and London.
Medal winning design by Heather Ritter.
Tel: 01622 762764
Heather's Gardens: Garden Design, Landscaping, Planting,
natural stone, large ceramic and terracotta containers, sculptures (and commissions) bespoke garden furniture, waterfountains
with pools, metalwork, statuary, trees, shrubs, perennials, box topiary, clematis and rare plants.
Please have a look at our portfolio showing a small sample of
gardens that Heather's Gardens have designed.
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A Garden For Pottering
This garden was designed for clients who are retired. They enjoy
gardening and have a good knowledge of plants, particularly perennials. For over thirty years they have lived in this
house and had made a garden from a very difficult site which was now proving to be potentially hazardous where safety was
concerned. The brief was to create a new garden that would be relatively easy to look after. The clients requested no grass.
This is a garden for entertaining friends and family, looking after grand-children with areas to eat, play and read
but most importantly for the clients to relax, potter and continue their passion for collecting plants. Many plants were saved
from the original garden. The clients' granite setts and various paving materials were recycled around the water fountain
and in other areas of the garden.
It has been lovely working for these clients who visit many gardens. To create
a garden within a specific budget has been a challenge but at the same time immensely rewarding.
Dear Heather
Thank you for your plant lists and notes on care. More than that, thank you both for achieving such a wonderful transformation
to our garden. It has been greatly appreciated by all who have seen it so far.
| The Watercolour Plan For This Garden |
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| Box globes provide winter structure |
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| Newly Planted Garden. See the next pic! |
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The Trampoline Garden
Indian sandstone
paving was used for the seating area and silver- grey granite setts were used for the curvy path. This was our second
garden design and construction for this client.
| Curvy Path Of Silver Grey Granite Setts |
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A Family Garden including an ornamental
vegetable parterre
This garden was completed in the spring of 2009. There are photographs
of the garden taken in the spring and summer of 2010.
This design has three distinct areas. The planting will provide
the contrast essential to each area. The large lawn will be an area for play and relaxation while the surrounding planting
will give a screen to the drive. There will be repeat planting of ornamental shrubs, tall and low-growing perennials and grasses
all the way along the drive to give unity to the design.
Trellis screens, painted a 'willowy green' shade, are
used throughout the garden.
The vegetable parterre garden has four straight paths providing a formal layout but the
planting of veg and ornamental perennials will make a soft contrast. The dividing trellis screens will give a feeling
of enclosure.
| The preliminary plan |
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| Heather's Gardens: Garden Design, Landscaping and Planting Maidstone Kent |
| The garden before work started |
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The following photographs were taken this summer 2010.
The tall grasses provide screening from the long driveway.
| Summer 2010 Tall grasses screen the drive |
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The garden was completed in spring 2009.............the following photographs
were taken a year later.
| The garden one year after planting |
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