Client: Private | Completed 2021 | Architect: Giles Quarme & Associates

Featured in House & Garden, April 2023

A surprisingly large central London garden for a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house completely refurbished by Giles Quarme & Associates. The scheme embraces the natural beauty of the existing Magnolia and Mulberry trees and seeks to enhance these with a planting scheme focussed on a Spring peak and the addition of mature multi stemmed Prunus yedoensis and structural evergreen hedging & large scale topiary.

Atmospheric woodland planting surrounds multiple seating areas and ‘site won’ urns and statuary create a strong sense of place. ‘Sheila’s gardens have a fine sense of balance, design harmony and panache… As with the best kind of ‘Secret garden’, the raw materials just needed teasing out: rusting urns were found in the undergrowth ready to be reconditioned and painted black; and a second Magnolia, previously hidden in shrubbery, became a focal point.’ Kendra Wilson, House & Garden

Photographs by Alister Thorpe