GARDEN DESIGN – diana arnold design

Diana Arnold Design Practice

Garden Design – Gardens have become increasingly important refuges and special places to relax and entertain. We bring out the creative potential of gardens, both large and small. Providing clients with gardens full of interest. As well as good structure of trees and shrubs, with beautiful seasonal colour and form.

A Surrey Family Garden Project in Byfleet

This project consisted of a total re-design of this quite spacious Family Garden, including the new gravel Front Driveway, Side Driveway and BBQ Area. New Borders, Pathways and the Patio in the Rear Garden Areas. The extended Deck, plus a hidden Tool Shelter. Together we created lovely outdoor lovely spaces for the family to relax in and enjoy. Work in progress will be the central new Lawn for games, which is to be added in cooler weather.

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Garden towards Deck Area — Byfleet Garden Design by Diana Arnold Design

Vew along the North side of the Border to the Lawn and Terrace — Planting Design along the North side of the Border to the Lawn and Terrace

New Surrey Garden Design — The extended Deck and Planting Diana Arnold Design

Borders wrap around the Deck — The Borders are planted with a mixture of Shrubs and Perennial Planting such as David Austin Roses, Berberis, Viburnums, Agapanthus, Calamagrostis Iris, Verbena, Lythrum and Verbascum.

Planting Pockets and Planters with Shade Planting. — Shade Planting includes Climbing Roses, Ferns, Hostas and Geraniums

Garden Design by diana Arnold Design — Planting on the New South Facing Border

Work in progress here with the Lawn to be completed in cooler weather. A view loooking Back to the property from the rear of the garden, along the Shade Border. — Work in progress with the Lawn to be completed at a later stage. This view shows the long Shade Border. Diana Arnold Design

A Coastal Garden in West Sussex

Raised beds featuring an overflowing water bowl, pebbles, succulents, perennials and evergreen grasses planting by Diana Arnold Design

Planting includes a mature Corylus Avellana Maxima Purpurea Tree, Quercus Ilex Pleached Trees for privacy, Dicksonia antartica, Ilex Crenata low hedges. Gravel planting features Calamagrostis Overdam grasses, Iris 'Midnight Caller', Salvia 'Armistad'. — Planting includes a mature Corylus Avellana Maxima Purpurea Tree, Quercus Ilex Pleached Trees for privacy, Dicksonia antartica, Ilex Crenata low hedges. Gravel planting features Calamagrostis Overdam grasses, Iris ‘Midnight Caller’, Salvia ‘Armistad’.

A Raised Bed with a Overflowing Bowl Water Feature by Diana Arnold Design — The Bubbling Overflowing Bowl Water Feature is centrally placed in the Raised Bed, surrounded by feature pebbles, sempervirons, shrubs and perennial planting.

A previous garden design project, with construction completed in 2022 was for clients who wanted a total redesign of their wide garden. We incorporated a sunken Deck and Fire Pit in the design, plus decorative pathways. This creates a garden which is far more interesting to walk around. Also incorporating two new raised beds featuring two water features.

The generous Fire Pit Area by Diana Arnold Design — The generous Fire Pit Area, with Sapele Wood Benching and rendered walls are surrounded by shrubs and trees in the Fire Pit Area

New Herbacious Borders with contemporay naturalistic planting — New Herbacious Borders adjoining the Pathway

A new pathway around the deck with planting, features new steps down to a sunken Fire Pit Area. Pathways were designed wind through new herbacious borders. The garden design features pleached evergreen trees, trellis with shrubs and climbing plants for coastal locations, which also help to provide privacy, texture and structure. Essentially filtering the fresh coastal breezes, only five minutes walk to the sea in Selsey, West Sussex.

Creating cool gentle relaxing sound and interest the Weir Water Feature, surrounded by shade planting. Diana Arnold Design — Creating cool gentle relaxing sound and interest the Raised Weir Water Feature is surrounded by cool shade planting, modern styling by Diana Arnold Design

Cosy sheltered canopy with windbreak wall to the Terrace Area. Copyright Diana Arnold Design

David Austin Rose Desdemoma — Herbacious Border featuring Rosa Desemona

A Contemporary Garden Design featuring a newly planted Porcelain Plank Pathway to the Cat Memorial Scupture, by Diana Arnold Design — A Contemporary Garden Design featuring a newly planted Porcelain Plank Pathway to the Cat Memorial Area. copyright Diana Arnold Design

Contemporary styling in garden design by Diana Arnold Design — A Contemporary Raised Bed with planting and a Water Blade Weir Fountain feature by Diana Arnold Design

A modern garden design with raised beds featuring an overflowing water bowl, pebbles, succulents and gravel planting to front by Diana Arnold Design — A contempory garden design with raised beds featuring an overflowing water bowl, pebbles, succulents and gravel planting to the front by Diana Arnold Design

The modern curved garden design by Diana Arnold design — The modern curved design by Diana Arnold design featuring gently curving smopth rendered Raised Beds with a sunken Deck inbetween and sunken Fire Pit beyond.

Making the most of ourtdoor small spaces, this garden design project in Emsworth brought out the design potential of the modest Courtyard and Balcony space. By providing new screening and creating privacy in the this outside room. The design featured use of a mixture of Bamboo, Shrubs, Bulbs and Perennials in containers edging the boundaries.

A Courtyard and Balcony Project in Emsworth by Diana Arnold Design — The privacy issues in the Courtyard Garden are solved with a pleached tree.

A new design for a Courtyard Garden and Balcony by Diana Arnold Design — The perennials and shrubs provide colour and structure, to the Balcony planting.

The Balcony at Nile Street, Emsworth by Diana Arnold Design — A new design for a Courtyard Garden and Balcony by Diana Arnold Design

A Garden Animation

Influenced by today’s emphasis on working online, in 2020, garden design work at Diana Arnold Design practice, involved developing new computer animation skills. Above is a scene from my Garden Animation. If you’d like to view the garden animation, please click this link:

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A Garden Design with a Golf Course

Garden Design for a Family Garden

Pleached Hornbeams neatly screen along the rear boundary. New planting such as fragrant Roses, alongside climbers including Clematis are added throughout the garden. A pristine new artificial turf lawn was laid, essential for our Clients and the boys ball games. This project was carried-out in conjunction with the Landscapers team.

Rear elevation showing Terrace and Play Area

Young children at play can be seen through the grasses and perennial plants of the raised bed, from the kitchen and dining room windows.

Children's Play Area — Children’s Play Area

A timber raised border, with lighting, adds privacy, by screening the Jacuzzi Terrace. Raised border planting provides long lasting colour, together with fragrance and form. We used some semi-transparent grasses in the raised border.

Planting is a large part of garden design

Limestone Terrace with Black Basalt Sett Edging

A Vegetable Grower’s Garden

This hilside garden design with a vegetable grower client, accommodates six vegetable beds on the right hand side of the garden and two greenhouses. On the left hand side new planting areas and a proposed raised herbaceous border with recessed seating make the most of the large garden. Together wiith decorative elements such as a shaped lawn and wildflower area, at the bottom of the garden. Stepping stone pathways create an interesting walk, form the split level deck from the Dining Room Patio Doors.

Garden design of a Family Garden in East Molesey.

New double level terrace — Modern glazed doors open to double level terraces

Returning to a previous Client, on this family garden design project, was a pleasure. We redesigned the Terraces and garden Borders in order to accommodate a new modern, glazed extension. The new Terraces were designed to seamlessly link the new rear elevation with the garden.

View from the Upper Terrace — Seymour Road, Molesey

The front lawn area was then re-shaped and subsequently we added new planting. The style of planting was modern cottage garden style. This included bulbs and many shrubs such as Daphne, Roses, Pittasporums, topiary of Buxus Cubes. We also used many flowering perennials, as well as climbers, for interest and colour in all seasons. Planting pockets were designed, to enhance the smart new grey Sandstone Terrace. In keeping with the residence, adding layers of modernity to the garden,

Seymour Road — New Extension with full height contemporary glazed doors and new Terraces View from the lawn.

Garden Design for a Riverside Garden

Entrance from side gate — The entrance to the garden, from the side gate. Showing the Corten raised bed and planters.

Riverside Property with modest sized garden.

An intimate, shady seating and entertaining area, is framed with Tree Ferns, Ferns and flowering, shade dwelling plants. The new Deck features a curving wide bottom with a step riser detail is in Corten Steel. So linking in with tall new Trough Planters at either side of the Deck and also with the curved Corten Steel raised border.

A new smart Cedar strip fence was added to the rear boundary. Porcelain stepping stones lead through the planting, creating another interesting route through the garden. This project was in conjunction with Landscapers.

The garden design features a shaded seating area — The cool shaded seating area with lush foliage of Dicksonias, perennials and screened with three ball cut Ligustrum trees.

Project by Diana Arnold & Graduate Landscrapes — Riverside Garden

Walton Childrens Centre, Surrey

As former parent at the School, this landscape design initially started enthusiastically, on a volunteer basis. During the design process together with Lyn, The Centre Manager, we created a new, naturalistic concept for the Children’s Centre Garden. This included a natural Prairie Planting scheme of fragrant herbs, grasses, shrubs and perennials. This planting were used together with natural materials such as large stones, gravel, Oak and Sandstone Pavers with fossils.

Childrens Centre Entrance

The entrance pathway Walton Children's Centre garden design

This theme was important to us, as many young children who attended the Centre, may be in housing without gardens. So we wanted the garden to be an expression and impression of nature, for them to enjoy.

Naturalistic Praire Planting in the garden design — Praire Planting

Prairie Planting in Raised Oak Beds at the — Children’s Centre Garden Diana Arnold Design

Play Equipment

When designing the garden, we included a Log Walk, together with a wooden Wall Finger Maize and a wooden Stage. A separate Toddler Area required, has a shaped timber Sandpit, Oak Bench and a Slide. The garden also features bespoke Oak seating benches, for each area. A Rock Fountain was set amongst Boulders, into a gravel area of grasses, which attracts hedgehogs.

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The Stage Area for the children in the garden design — The Stage Area with fibreglass planters planted with Bamboo.

The new timber semi-circular Stage Area for the children is backed with Bamboo. This is planted in large red fibreglass Trough Planters, which brighten a shady spot. For the boundary walls at the Centre, we used Quercus Woven Oak Fencing, which fits in with the natural concept design. http://primrose.co.uk http://quercus.co.uk

The garden design features a Rock Fountain Area and Gravel Garden Area.

The Centre Manager Lyn and I worked together, on many aspects of the garden design, which is on a difficult site. This involved my assistance on Grant Applications and Planning Permission applications. I also produced all the garden design and detailed documentation.

The naturalistic planting in the raised border along the entrance pathway in the garden design

Using a rubber grid mat system, on lawn areas, with the grass growing through it has two benefits. Firstly it provides toddlers with a soft landing, should they fall. It also protects the grass from otherwise inevitable erosion.

My responsibilities also included the procurement, with the School Manager. Also completing the soft landscaping on site. Then going on to monitor the garden build, to completion. Afterwards I enjoyed maintaining the garden seasonally, for many years.

Chelsea Flower Show 2011 The Quercus Trade Stand

The Gadren Design project was a Trade Stand Planting Design — Planting Design for Quercus Fencing – RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011

Having the opportunity to design the Quercus Trade Stand Planting Design, was very exciting! We chose a Modern Cottage Garden style theme. The planting was successfully and efficiently completed on site. In fact we finished in just a few hours, on the day before the Show. Then after the end of the Flower Show, carefully tooking out the plants, then loading the plants in their van for transport to my Clients’ own garden. https://dianaarnolddesign.co.uk

The Garden Design for a Quercus Trade Stand project, includes modern cottage garden style planting. — Quercus Fencing – RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011, photos by Heather Edwards.

Quercus Fencing – RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2011

Diana Arnold MCSD

diana@dianaarnolddesign.co.uk

A Pre-Registered Member of the Society of Garden Designers.