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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

577 fake landscapes 200cm oriental bamboo run

Very arty angle! This is in the West End, with one of those dismal views out of the back that you so often get there. These are custom made narrow planters, and the bamboo goes to over 2m. The picture’s wonky because we left the wide-angle lens at the office… 577

576 fake landscapes 220cm fine leaf pool bamboo in basket

Like terracotta, we don’t see enough nice baskets. These were quite a size, maybe 60cm across and the ceiling was 2.8m, so we made them look lush and full. The place wasn’t finished when we installed, so one would hope there’s a mural or mirror on that large blank wall now! 576

575 Fake Landscapes Paddington bamboo part 2

Back to showing off! Paddington Basin, I think, and it must have been a 40m run. We spent a long time playing with the heights of the trunks and the density so it looked like it was doing better in some places than others. The bloke on the right seems to prefer a chair to the bean-bags, though. 575

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