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Limestone Cobble Parking Area

11/16/2020

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Reclaimed local limestone cobbles, pieced together in a totally random format to create a new parking area for this house in the South Hams. 
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Gardens Illustrated - July 2019 Issue

1/9/2020

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Very grateful to Gardens Illustrated and Jason Ingram for featuring us in this article in the July 2019 Issue of the magazine about the first part of our Kingswear cliff edge project.
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Boulder Sculpture

6/25/2019

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Hand carved stone bowl maquette (a sculptor's small preliminary model) for a project with Conrad Batten Design.

​This will lead on to a large boulder being sculpted to have water bubbling up into a bowl carved into its top.

Follow our blog The Dig to see the finished boulder sculpture.


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Stonework

6/5/2019

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Local stone used to hide the structural walls, sandblasted bullnosed limestone create smooth but grippy steps, and old olives instantly brings softness and character to the new space.    
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Stonework in Dartmouth, Devon

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Granite steps going in, that lead up to a fire bowl area, planting to follow.   
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Garden Design, Dartmouth, Devon

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Oak being laid on top of the drystone walls in Kingswear to create a morning coffee spot for the clients whilst being surrounded by armeria and sea kale on the salt blasted cliffs.

Stonework in Kingswear, Devon
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Autumn Coastal Garden

11/5/2018

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Autumnal tones with clipped and built forms of teucrium and locally quarried stone walls at a recently finished project in Kingswear, South Devon.

Drystone seat cut into the bedrock as it pushes out of the ground. All of the stone used was found on-site so the materials 'sit' in the landscape quietly.
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Another oak puddle in progress, stonework being built to blend in seamlessly with the cliffs, then the oak sits in on top, cut into the lines of the cliff allowing the client to fish or drink coffee, feet from the sea.

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Coastal Garden

10/4/2018

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​Caloplaca marina smothering the cliffs creating beautiful contrasts with the sea. The natural 'lichen garden' is part of the new from the oak puddles we have created at our Kingswear project.

Caloplaca marina is also known as the Orange Sea Lichen and it is a crustose, placodioid lichen. It has wide distribution, and can be found near the shore on rocks or walls. Calos in Greek means nice, placa in Greek is shield. Caloplaca therefore means ‘beautiful patches’

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