New Upper Terrace (2/4) (back garden, autumn 2008)
The upper end of our garden, with its new Upper Terrace, just completed.
Jill is sitting at our new garden table in front of the Valrosa Cabin (workshop). Compare this view with the same area five months earlier. All the visible construction, including the cabin, was done for us by Acer Landscapes. The overall scheme was our own with advice from Acer. The areas of bare soil are new borders waiting to be planted.
NOTE ON THE GARDEN
The garden was very plain and bare when we arrived in 1985. We have been developing the design gradually since then, but not from a single pre-planned conception. Eventually we developed the overall shape, with a 'winding river' effect made by the lawns and path (though this is not seen in this view). The shapes of the rockeries, planting and other features are based on the way a small stream winds between 'interlocking spurs' in hilly terrain. We did all the planting, and I built many of the features. For further history of our garden, see set description for 'OUR BACK GARDEN'
GARDEN DETAILS
(To see garden details better, click on the three dots symbol (●●● meaning 'more') at bottom right of black part of screen > Choose 'View all sizes' > Choose any size larger than the one in black font. Press back button to return. See also notes on picture. However, notes are not retained in downloaded versions of Flickr images.)
Features
- Garden Railway (G-scale) - Lower L is the branching point between the Upper Loop (nearer the camera) and the Middle Section, on the Upper (Railway) Rockery. This is a 45mm gauge G-Scale layout using Märklin-LGB track, parts and rolling stock, with my own garden-sized civil engineering.
- Path (1) - concrete block paving with treated wooden edging, recently (2007) laid by Acer Landscapes. This section (L) is the uppermost part of our main garden path and leads to steps of Valrosa Cabin in background.
- Path (2) - centre foreground, new section of path in reclaimed York stone in 'crazy' style. This connects the new step up to the new Upper Terrace to an older side path which comes along the fence from our Escallonia Arch (out of sight behind us). Step is made of Indian stone and London stock bricks.
- plant containers - on front of terrace, cast in concrete, with medieval-style design, a present from my father a long time ago, here planted with box trees.
- Upper Terrace - centre, concrete block paving with treated wooden edging, just completed by Acer Landscapes.
- Valrosa Cabin workshop - in background L, fully insulated, built for us the previous year by Acer Landscapes.
- Water butt - R, newly installed by Acer Landscapes, for storing rain water from roof of Valrosa Cabin, just behind.
Plants
- Buxus sempervirens - box-trees in the two containers on the terrace, grown from small seedlings and shaped into truncated cones.
- Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey' - fig tree, upper R in corner of terrace. 'Brown Turkey' is the commonly-chosen variety recommended for the British climate for yielding fruit. Tree looks new but is actually about 20 years old and had to be cut back to enable Valrosa Cabin construction in 2007. We planted it c.1990 not long after we arrived in the house. As recommended, we confined the roots with a loose brick surround beneath soil level.
- Juniperus horizontalis - prostrate juniper, L foreground by Upper Loop of Garden Railway.
- Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' - dwarf white spruce, just visible above the juniper, L foreground.
- Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Variegatum' (variegated confederate jasmine), just visible, climbing on fence, lower R.
LOCATION DETAILS
Country: Great Britain: England
City: London
London Borough: Lambeth
District: West Dulwich, SE21
Altitude: 40m
Aspect: View is approx to W. Fence on L faces approx. S.
Photo
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: CIMG1594.JPG - Version 2
New Upper Terrace (2/4) (back garden, autumn 2008)
The upper end of our garden, with its new Upper Terrace, just completed.
Jill is sitting at our new garden table in front of the Valrosa Cabin (workshop). Compare this view with the same area five months earlier. All the visible construction, including the cabin, was done for us by Acer Landscapes. The overall scheme was our own with advice from Acer. The areas of bare soil are new borders waiting to be planted.
NOTE ON THE GARDEN
The garden was very plain and bare when we arrived in 1985. We have been developing the design gradually since then, but not from a single pre-planned conception. Eventually we developed the overall shape, with a 'winding river' effect made by the lawns and path (though this is not seen in this view). The shapes of the rockeries, planting and other features are based on the way a small stream winds between 'interlocking spurs' in hilly terrain. We did all the planting, and I built many of the features. For further history of our garden, see set description for 'OUR BACK GARDEN'
GARDEN DETAILS
(To see garden details better, click on the three dots symbol (●●● meaning 'more') at bottom right of black part of screen > Choose 'View all sizes' > Choose any size larger than the one in black font. Press back button to return. See also notes on picture. However, notes are not retained in downloaded versions of Flickr images.)
Features
- Garden Railway (G-scale) - Lower L is the branching point between the Upper Loop (nearer the camera) and the Middle Section, on the Upper (Railway) Rockery. This is a 45mm gauge G-Scale layout using Märklin-LGB track, parts and rolling stock, with my own garden-sized civil engineering.
- Path (1) - concrete block paving with treated wooden edging, recently (2007) laid by Acer Landscapes. This section (L) is the uppermost part of our main garden path and leads to steps of Valrosa Cabin in background.
- Path (2) - centre foreground, new section of path in reclaimed York stone in 'crazy' style. This connects the new step up to the new Upper Terrace to an older side path which comes along the fence from our Escallonia Arch (out of sight behind us). Step is made of Indian stone and London stock bricks.
- plant containers - on front of terrace, cast in concrete, with medieval-style design, a present from my father a long time ago, here planted with box trees.
- Upper Terrace - centre, concrete block paving with treated wooden edging, just completed by Acer Landscapes.
- Valrosa Cabin workshop - in background L, fully insulated, built for us the previous year by Acer Landscapes.
- Water butt - R, newly installed by Acer Landscapes, for storing rain water from roof of Valrosa Cabin, just behind.
Plants
- Buxus sempervirens - box-trees in the two containers on the terrace, grown from small seedlings and shaped into truncated cones.
- Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey' - fig tree, upper R in corner of terrace. 'Brown Turkey' is the commonly-chosen variety recommended for the British climate for yielding fruit. Tree looks new but is actually about 20 years old and had to be cut back to enable Valrosa Cabin construction in 2007. We planted it c.1990 not long after we arrived in the house. As recommended, we confined the roots with a loose brick surround beneath soil level.
- Juniperus horizontalis - prostrate juniper, L foreground by Upper Loop of Garden Railway.
- Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' - dwarf white spruce, just visible above the juniper, L foreground.
- Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Variegatum' (variegated confederate jasmine), just visible, climbing on fence, lower R.
LOCATION DETAILS
Country: Great Britain: England
City: London
London Borough: Lambeth
District: West Dulwich, SE21
Altitude: 40m
Aspect: View is approx to W. Fence on L faces approx. S.
Photo
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: CIMG1594.JPG - Version 2