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416 Fake Landscapes cypress with bay and lavender Singapore

Part of a really nice formal garden in Singapore, with small alternating variations in the tree heights to make it look more natural, there are other parts of the same project dotted around the site, the planters are the give-away! 416

415 Corinthia hotel courtyard 2, olive, mango and base planting

The central courtyard at the Corinthia Hotel in London, with long raised planters, a mix of UV olive and alii trees for height, and some nicely random under-planting. Plus green walls with live flowers below, as before. 415

414 Living wall cypresses

Part of a humungous living wall, more than 250m2 in area, and, just for good measure, several runs of 5m tall cypress trees to boot! That’s a lot of 40’ shipping containers, and it’s probably the largest private house project we’ve done. The lighting is well planned here, lots of 2700k LEDs which were in place before we arrived, so we could fit around them to avoid glare. 414

413 fake landscapes 3m olive tree plus bamboo and grasses TVC W12

Part of a mixed project over at the old BBC television centre in Shepherd’s Bush, which is particularly windy. That’s true of a lot of buildings around there out by Westway and also in Docklands, and we’d normally suggest a screening hedge. It does look nice, though!! 413

412 fake landscapes formal bay topiary and cypresses The Lanesborough SW1

This picture of the Lanesborough hotel is also in the cypress section of the site, and is really the tip of the iceberg, in that the inner courtyards and upper balconies are also planted with a mix of our topiaries. We’ve actually done the landscaping there a couple of times now, six or seven years apart, so we must be doing something right! 412

411 fake landscapes 290cm olive plus base planting in lightwell NW3

One of a series of lightwells in a modern apartment building that are open to the elements, where we’ve made groups of trees and underplanting in various sizes to fit the space. That’s a live (ish…) living wall in the background and the stylish planters are from the nice people at Bronzino. 411

410 fake landscapes corinthia hotel courtyard UV camellia trees, bamboo, living walls and window boxes

This is one of those large inner courtyards that you find in nice hotels in the middle of European cities, particularly in older buildings. They’re a bit sad in winter when you use live plants, so the plan here was to make it both year-round and more ‘3D’ with some 3-5m camellia trees, living walls and bamboo groves. The earth in front of the living walls is so that seasonal flowers can be planted to give the best of both worlds. 410

692 Fake Landscapes Dormy House lavender in terracotta

Really nice terracotta pots, the real thing – weighed a ton and probably cost several times more than the planting. This is outside one of those country-house spas, where we got a lot of the ‘how lovely’ followed by ‘oh dear, it’s not real’ from passers-by. People can be fake-ist - but it’s just ignorance, and we have broad shoulders…. 692

691 lavender roof terrace W8

One of the many ginormous penthouses over to the west of Kensington High Street, we repeated the staggered pot idea in twos and threes close to the apartment, and put hedges against the outer glass balustrade. 691

690 rosemary in envelope

Very Doric! This must be in Belgravia, and it’s all the classier for the slim planter and low density of the rosemary, allowing for how ornate the houses are. 690

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