AWWH
city courtyard
area: 
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survey:
build started:
planting:
57m2
11.5m wide x 4.7m deep approx
Apr 2013
Sept 2013
Dec 2013
this Winchester garden is on the site of a former Victorian workhouse where children would play ball or entertain themselves with skipping games. The design was inspired by the curve of a skipping rope and lends to being viewed from the first and second floor windows of the property. The boundary fence was rebuilt in brick giving the courtyard a secluded feel.

“We get great pleasure from our garden and feel that the ingenious use of curves has made the most of an otherwise very boring space”.
Mr and Mrs York. 2018

garden before: when I visited for the first time this garden seemed drab and tired. The planting beds were shallow, confined to the boundaries and poorly constructed. The planting was overgrown. As the central pollarded tree grew in the summer you could not pass to the other half of the garden. The sandstone slabs were taken up, cleaned and re-purposed for another project.
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