This London front garden was feeling a bit depleted - the elderly shrubs had become rather solid shapes, and just didn't deserve their hero positioning any more.

The garden has benefitted from an injection of structural evergreen planting and pings of seasonal interest, which come from scented Daphne, winter-flowering Sarcococca hedging, and Japanese Anemones.

 

The addition of a flowering cherry tree gives a sense of proportion to the house and garden.

The garden had a lovely existing path which was retained, but the 2 beds were extended, and a steel-edged gravel area created for wheelie bin storage.

 

Stepping stones inter-planted with low-growing Saxifraga lead to the side return.