Why it works - another tiny garden design
And plants for the hardest of places
Thank you so much for your comments on the last tiny garden design case study - today, we’re going to take a quick midweek look at the most unlikely of garden corners, and why this design works.
This is an occasional series, just a quick read, and hopefully it will inspire!
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A tiny urban terrace, and why this design works
If you were to have looked at this place before it became a garden, you would never have called it a garden. It was basically a narrow strip of paving between a building and right on the street, with cars whizzing by. It would have been noisy, and there’s an overwhelming sense of concrete and city and noise. Not great.
And yet, just look at it. This is a genuinely lovely place to be. A place where someone can sit, even have a coffee even with all that traffic. How has that been achieved?
Let’s take a look: