Photo: water cascade by Wildroof Landscapes Penrith Cumbria

Before and after gallery

Before: Armathwaite
After: Armathwaite
Before: Carleton back garden
After: Carleton back garden
Before: Carleton front garden
After: Carleton front garden
Before: Carleton front garden
After: Carleton front garden
After: Carleton front garden
After: Carleton front garden
Before: Culgaith
After: Culgaith
Before: Culgaith
After: Culgaith
Before: Keswick
After: Keswick
Before: Keswick
After: Keswick
Before: Keswick
After: Keswick
Before: Orton
After: Orton
Before: Orton
After: Orton
Before: Orton
After: Orton
Before: Penrith
After: Penrith
Before: Ravenstonedale
After: Ravenstonedale
Before: Ravenstonedale
After: Ravenstonedale

Before and after gallery 2

Before: Whitehaven coastal garden

Client wanted a new garden with plenty of space for entertaining with a seaside theme and coastal planting.
After: Whitehaven coastal garden

An upper Millboard composite wood deck and a lower sheltered ‘harbour’ area with feature groynes to reinforce the coastal garden theme.
Before: Whitehaven coastal garden
After: Whitehaven coastal garden
Before: Whitehaven coastal garden
After: Whitehaven coastal garden
Before: Carlisle period property

A neglected period property undergoing a major renovation with new owners required TLC and expertise for solving many of the problems that were uncovered.
After: Carlisle period property

Heritage stonework and natural materials created a sympathetic landscape to the newly refurbished property.
Before: Carlisle period property
After: Carlisle period property
Before: Hawkshead Lakeland farmhouse

Client wanted a mountain stream to be created in the steep garden of his traditional Lakeland farmhouse.
After: Hawkshead Lakeland farmhouse

A mountain stream with waterfalls , rustic steps and rockery planting.
Before: Lorton vegetable garden

Client brief to rebuild an ancient vegetable garden and recycle all the materials on site as well as to create a sheltered seating area for the views.
After: Lorton vegetable garden

A rockery for the slope, bog garden for the lowest point of the garden and a stone faced curved ‘throne’ seat as well as several green oak raised vegetable beds.
Before: Cockermouth estate garden

Client’s new extension left a smaller back garden which they wanted to be a wildlife haven.
After: Cockermouth estate garden

A curving retaining wall gave a larger patio and a wildlife pond and beck meant wildlife was welcome.
Before: Holme exposed garden

A garden extension was untidy and high maintenance and did not reflect the client's contemporary taste – a hot colour plant palette was required.
After: Holme exposed garden

Curving walls extended the patio, artificial turf was used and a shelter belt planted to the field boundary.
Before: Penrith front garden

A tired front garden needed to be rejuvenated to create a more stylish entrance and a sheltered place to sit.
After: Penrith front garden

Colourful low maintenance planting screened the garden from the road, a small water feature hid the noise from the cars.
Before: Borrowdale poor access

Luxury hotel with a poor visitor entrance – unused part of the garden with no access and nowhere to sit.
After: Borrowdale poor access

Recycled materials from site to create a garden with a Japanese feel very sympathetic to the era of the house, crevice garden, Azalea cloud planting and Japanese tea house with rain chains.
Before: Greystoke front garden

Overgrown garden to a Listed Building needed a low maintenance solution.
After: Greystoke front garden

Interlocking circles of lawn and paving edged with box hedging gave a parterre feel to the garden.
Before: Plumpton drainage ditch

Untidy ditch in the sunniest part of the garden.
After: Plumpton drainage ditch

Colourful planting and a bridge with arbour to enjoy the sun.
Before: Culgaith waterlogged garden

Naturally wet garden with collapsed land drains through the middle.
After: Culgaith waterlogged garden

Wildlife pond at the bottom of the slope and drystone riverbed to direct the water.
Before: Culgaith collapsed land drain

Installing a new land drain through the garden.
After: Culgaith collapsed land drain

A new lawn and wildlife friendly planting.
Before: Kendal old steps

Difficult access – slippery steps – professional client wanted local stone steps that were in keeping with the house and child friendly.
After: Kendal new steps

Limestone steps and walls with grey sandstone paving created a more welcoming entrance.
Before: Deanscales small awkward shape garden (Cockermouth)

Difficult access and nowhere to sit and an uninteresting view from the house.
After: Deanscales small awkward shape garden

Sunken courtyard in Honister slate with seating and new steps as well as a rill waterfeature for relaxing after a hard day at work.
Before: Low Newton small overlooked garden

Small garden and visible oil tank did not give the client a space they wanted to sit in.
After: Low Newton small overlooked garden

Log sofa to hide the oil tank and evergreen planting in containers to screen the road.
Before: Appleby poor access on a steep site

Difficult access and unuseable space which was very hard to maintain.
After: Appleby poor access on a steep site

Gabion basket retaining wall increased the area of level garden and supported a new flight of steps to the upper level.
Before: Workington terraced garden with steep steps

A mixture of materials and steep steps did not reflect the client’s creative nature and made the garden difficult to entertain in.
After: Workington terraced garden with steep steps

Rationalising the terraces and new steps increased the useable space within the garden.
Before: Carlisle town garden

A neglected back garden was a race track for the client’s dogs but left no space to entertain.
After: Carlisle town garden

Raised planters for additional seating and to house the client’s Acers along with a seating area for the evening sun gave the garden an oriental feel.
Before: Brampton poor access on a steeply sloping site

The steep slope was difficult to garden or to capture the amazing views from the upper garden.
After: Brampton poor access on a steeply sloping site

Rockery banking gave plenty of planting pockets and a gravel ramp up to a sunken seating area meant a useable entertaining area.