This garden being 80m long and 25m wide was a challenge.  The approach was to create a connecting walkway from the house to the end of the garden.  The customer is Italian and he wanted to create a little bit of his home country in his large garden. The influence of a Roman Garden came from the trees standing on the left; these stood erect like columns, and were in the style of  “Via Appia” in Rome. To complete this look a walkway was created to curve between the trees and link the house to the end of the garden.

At the end of the garden granite slabs and a cast iron fountain were installed and these are all features of a genuine Roman piazza. 

The patio in front of the house was intended to look like a Roman Theatre when viewed from the bottom of the garden.

At the very end of the garden a retaining stone wall had to be built to retain the neighbour’s garden and the trellis fence on top of this stone wall blocks the view from the neighbouring house. 

The project will be continued by introducing columns by the fountain, these columns not only add to the ‘Roman’ aspect they also counterbalance with the trees running down the left hand side of the garden.