Garden Design Cambridge was asked to completely redesign this 11m garden in Cambridge that had been neglected for several years and left to become completely overgrown with weeds and long grass.

We began by cutting back all the weeds and treating the entire area with a suitable weed killer. We then laid a geo-textile membrane outside the property’s French windows to suppress further weed growth and built a suitable timber subframe for the wooden decking over the top. We also created a concrete foundation for a shed base at the bottom of the garden.

We constructed long raised beds on either side of the garden out of railway sleepers that had been cut to size and filled with nutrient-rich soil. Offcuts from the timber decking were used to top the walls of the raised bed. A new rectangular lawn was laid with fresh, high-quality turf and a gravel path was laid that sat parallel to the lawn. The path stretched from the new decking to the shed base at the rear of the garden.

A new wooden shed was built on the newly-laid base and ornamental grasses, bamboo and various shrubs were planted in the raised beds.