I have just dropped off my entry into the Jackson's Fencing Competition 2012. The brief was to design a garden approximately 7.5m x 4.5m using some of their products and the winner will have their garden built down at Jackson's Head Office and south-eastern branch at Stowting Common near Ashford and it will be a show garden for a year or so.
I decided to design a garden that would be suitable for a wheelchair user, so all of the planting beds are raised to 200mm or 400mm and there are fruit trees and vegetable plants so that they can be tended to from a seated position.
The design had to have some element of sustainability so I have used CED's Traxmax in their Cedagravel stabilisation system. Traxmax is recycled ceramic waste and in the Cedagravel it will be held in place so a wheelchair could pass easily over it whilst letting any rainwater through (if we get any that is). The main seating area is paved with Travertine and the edge details and wall cappings are black limestone.
The other planting areas are herbaceous perennials, in keeping the inspiration for this design, with the red, yellow and blue tradition of a Piet Mondrian painting.
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