greencube design https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html I’m out with my camera over the next few weeks, catching up with clients, capturing beauty in our completed gardens. Up early for this one in Linton near Maidstone. This garden beautifully cared for by its owners. 🌳 A multi zoned garden with a mix of topiary, multi stem trees, roses and perennials Considered design. Soil, aspect, light levels, water, cohesion, heights, unity, proportion, balance, structure. simplicity, drainage. Captivating Design, capturing beauty, layers, movement, framing, repeating, blocks and swathes, adding pops of seasonal moments. Some of the considerations made when designing a plant plan. Greencube Design 🌳 Wow thank you for following our journey. Lots of new projects in the pipeline, cannot wait to share. I’ll be out next week photographing some our recently completed projects. It’s World Bee Day today, drawing attention to the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy. We plant every garden with nectar rich planting. Here’s my bee haven Echium reaching for the sky. Loved working on this garden in Marden, Kent. A garden designed around our clients existing Catalpa trees 🌳 Key features include material repetition, an immersive sunken seating area and large scaled borders full of our favourites🌳🌳 Loved working on this small garden project 🌳 Construction by @beetlestonesdbm Design, Project Monitoring and planting by @greencube_design 🌳 Our new project this month, a lush, tropical sauna garden with an outdoor kitchen, herb garden and multiple zones 🌳 Greencube Design Thalictrum delavayidancing in the breeze on repeat Greencube Design Try this for great results in 12 weeks. Sow in Spring or Autumn. I’ve mixed an annual seed mix with a perennial meadow mix.Why? We have lost over 90% of our wildflower meadows in the UK in the last century. Due to land development and changes in farming methods.It’s a nectar rich meadow mix created for Honey and Solitary Bees, Butterflies, Birds, Beetles, Bats and Moths.I have added three Amelanchiers, native Hornbeam trees with a Taxus and Hornbeam corridor. 🌳 Our plant of the week is Dicksonia antartica.This slow growing tree fern is a favourite in our Greencube Design palette. Watch out for the new fronds unfurling this month. Featured here in our Sevenoaks garden. 🌳 We love receiving photos from our clients. Incoming today 🌳A garden we designed 3 years ago. A special garden for a retired industry work colleague and his wife. A huge compliment, thank you for asking us to design your garden, it looks fabulous and I’m looking forward to visiting next month🌳 Design @greencube_design Construction @vu_garden &@beetlestonesdbm Are you interested in Home Grown Veg? Or growing flowers for cutting? New to our meadow garden we’ve installed some circular steel and filled them up with soil and compost. #HomegrownVeg #meadowgarden #cuttinggardenflowers Home – modern garden design City Garden BALI Award Winner 2023 Pro Landscaper, June 2020 Media – featuring greencube garden design Check out our garden in The English Garden magazine this month. MAY issueThrilled to see our little new build garden gaining further coverage following our win at the Society of Garden + Landscape Designers Awards back in February. The magazine highlights 6 award winning entries: Stating:‘If you need to be convinced of the value a garden designer can bring to a project, it couldn’t be more clearly illustrated than by the transformations this years winning designers have effected for their clients. How their designers turned uninspiring blank canvases into gardens worthy of the industry’s highest accolade.’ 🌳 Designed @greencube_design Planted @greencube_design Construction @hythegardenlandscapes Dipping tank harvesting rainwater 🌳 With added Common Water CrowFoot Ranunculus aquatilis Greencube Design 🌳 The Sunday Times announce the UK’s best stays with private saunas. We are proud to announce our garden design for Indigo Barn in North Norfolk made the list! ️🌳We are so chuffed to see this garden recently completed in 2025, with 1600 plants and trees 🌳 in a dreamy wild prairie style planting scheme with barrel sauna, pergola and cold shower recognised in the list.We designed a garden around this wonderful barn in this beautiful spot within the Holkham estate. You can holiday rent this amazing barn @norfolkhideaways Huge thanks to @coastal_excavations_norfolk @formplants @palmstead Garden saunas are booming in the UK, we have worked on 6 sauna gardens in domestic gardens over the last 12 months. dipping tanks harvesting rainwater 🌳Greencube Design Lupin Inspiration We’ve been out planting lots of gardens this spring. Some of my planting plans have included Lupins. I’m always inspired by my trips away and fortunate to have encountered these wonderful Lupins on a trip to New Zealand a few years back. Captured in Fiordland National Park in December. I love Lupins #NewZealand#lupins Greencube wins a national award for a small new build garden in Kent. 🌳The garden was awarded the Significant Impact Award, at the annual Awards ceremony – @the_sgld The judges described the space as ‘a fantastic example of what can be achieved with a new build home. It celebrates the value a designer can bring, showing how thoughtful design can transform both a home and the lives of those who live in it’.Thank you for the wonderful feature in this month’s Garden Design Journal.Describing Greencube’s gardens: ‘known for their intelligently zoned layouts, their elegant balance of planting and hardscaping, and the simple palette of materials used to give each garden its own bespoke and harmonious look and feel.’Our interview covered style, budgets, the process, teamwork, delivery, making a difference & the impact it makes to those clients that desire a well designed garden. 🌳Words Arabella St John Parker@the_sgld Design and planting @greencube_design Construction @hythegardenlandscapes Huge thank you to our clients who trusted our process and are now taking great care of their new garden 🌳 Championing the use of shrubs. Here’s Monday’s motivation and a popular shrub that’s featured in our planting plans and planted in our completed gardens. Flowering ahead of other shrubs such as Roses and Hydrangeas. Viburnum plicatum ‘Marieseii’A deciduous shrub with tiered horizontal branches with lace cap flowers in late spring. #MondayInspiration#GardeningGoals We have lost over 90% of our wildflower meadows in the UK in the last century. Due to land development and changes in farming methods. Take the curvy clay path to our modern meadow garden. A nectar rich meadow mix created for Honey and Solitary Bees, Butterflies, Birds, Beetles, Bats and Moths.I have added three multi stem Prunus serrula trees and a privet corridor that supports the privet hawk-moth but also attracts bees, butterflies and provides food and cover for birds. Sit within the meadow and watch nature arrive 🌳🦋#lowcarbonfootprint #meadow#meadowgarden #meadowseed Hillside Garden Cookie Policy Terms and Conditions of Use I’ve been a bit quiet on Insta of late. It’s planting season, we’ve been very busy planting up lots of gardens. 🌳 Three more to go in April. We’ve got this…… Here’s a finished Greencube garden. A small domestic garden, pared back, layers of green textures, with a simple palette including lots of grasses , tree ferns and statement pots. 🌳# gardendesign This garden was shortlisted in the national garden design awards @the_sgld back in 2019 and still remains a firm favourite 🌳 The grass Hakonechloa macra is a favourite too, repeated in many of our designs. Instagram – recent posts by greencube design Lush Tropical Planting Privacy Policy Copper Moongate Garden Textures and Layers Beautiful Meadow Gardens What’s your style, your vibe, do you have a favourite plant, your colour palette, your budget, your soil, your context, your aspect, your boundaries, your access, your levels….Here’s our style, swipe through a collection of some of our favourite creations – immersive gardens, naturalistic, calm, refined & soulful. Balancing the hard scapes with wonderful planting. Getting the ratio right, creating an oasis, a sanctuary and immersive garden. I work directly with every client to create individual gardens that embody their unique requirements. My job is to gather our clients original thoughts and design something serene and beautiful that they’ll love🌳Love my job 🌳#GardenDesign Dining Out Vertical Gardens Grand Designs, July 2015 Small City Garden Greenwich Garden Design Zesty lime and orange Nectar-rich planting Upcycled Swimming Pool Garden I loved working on this project. The pool was given a new veneer with green glass mosaic tiles then wrapped in grey limestone and timber decks.A soft material palette mixed with a nectar rich planting scheme and meadow. It’s our Greencube style, less is more, bold but dreamy. Top tip :Make sure you workout your ratios, get the balance right 🌳planting (soft landscaping) : paving (hard landscaping) Create an oasis, a sanctuary 🌳Greencube Design Norfolk Victorian Foundry Kentish Oast House Classic Country Garden Upcycled Garden Swimming Pool Large Country Garden Blog