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609 fake landscapes low inset hedge with balls and lavender

Another of the ‘in-ground’ hedges, but this time as a rectangle in a raised planter, with some topiary balls and our dark lavender in the middle as well. We spend a lot of time getting the various tones of green right in our UV boxwood – it’s now in its eighth or ninth generation - and you can see how well it blends in with the live stuff behind. 609

608 fake landscapes boxwood screening hedge for railings 180cm

Here’s another ‘from behind’ (© Not The Nine O’Clock News) hedge, this time in boxwood and around 2m tall for (a lot of) privacy. Because it’s on the roof, this is fixed - invisibly - in more ways than can be imagined to prevent the wind causing trouble. 608

607 bay W8

Another narrow planter, this time with a bay hedge and fixed from behind the railings so the leaves appear to be growing through. We did some nice matching window boxes here as well, but the picture is taken from too low down to show them so you’ll have to use your imagination… 607

606 fake landscapes100cm UV box hedge run one hyde park

Tall and narrow planters to maximise outdoor space on a balcony at One Hyde Park, these are actually only 18cm deep. The hedge/planter combination comes to 90cm tall, and the client wanted much more green than container, so there’s a lot of weight in those bases! 606

604 Fake Landscapes low unstructured boxwood hedges W8

Also 30-odd cm high, a bit like the in-ground hedge earlier, but in the clients existing planters where they’d struggled with live boxwood. It’s not our area of expertise - but most of the live plants we take out of small containers tend to be either waterlogged or bone-dry, so there must be a minimum volume of earth needed to maintain balance. Not any more =) 604

603 fake landscapes CZ W11 500mm shaggy buxus run

This is one of those hedges designed to lose the boring bit of the street immediately below the window, but retain the long view. The planters are 40cm high and the hedge much the same, and we made it extra-shaggy on the inward facing bit so you can still see the texture when the windows are closed. 603

602 fake landscapes 35cm in-ground boxwood hedge 1080 (2)

A neat in-ground hedge 35cm high, fun to do mainly because we didn’t have to dig the trench round the roots of the existing trees ourselves (thanks, Clive)! These low hedges are handy to define the edges of a town garden. We’re doing more and more of them as the real thing tends not to last, they get bad patches and become woody. Not Woody, who’s one of a number of different entities. 602

601 Fake landscapes laurel leaf hedge

These are much larger then they look, because we don’t have an elf in there for scale. The planters are around 80cm tall, and the bay hedge is a good metre above that, so they’re sort of person height. They show the idea of a series of hedges being much more 3D than a continuous run nicely. 601

600 fake landscapes 20m x 65cm buxus hedge SW1

Just showing off, somewhere in the land of Stucco™! The buxus hedge is well over 20 metres long overall, and the visible part (there are planters behind the balustrade) comes 65cm above the parapet. The ‘in-and-out’ of the building works nicely, and the late sun shows the ‘slightly grown-out’ look of the hedges really well. 600

fake landscapes oriental bamboo 250cm in 120cm wide planter

Nice idea for a modern under-street lightwell, textured walls and a long trough with bamboo at each of the short sides. They’re 60cm tiles, so the planter is around a metre long and the overall height close to 2.8m. We do quite a few of these. 579

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