The Tiny Town Garden
The Tiny Town Garden
2018-present
The design of this small cottage garden in Wellington manages to provide generous perennial plantings, functional outdoor space, and ample room for vehicle parking in a tight laneway lot.
Rough-sawn hemlock timbers were used to edge the border garden. These timbers deter vehicles from cutting the corner (protecting the existing birch tree and new garden planting from damage) and create visually clean, physically solid edges between the gravel and garden planting. The same timbers were also used to build a raised planter box, bringing the planting to the same level of the cottage’s porch entrance. The height of the planter, combined with a diverse mix of tall perennials, grasses, and hardy annuals provides colour and texture throughout the season, while also partially screening the parking area behind. In the cottage’s most occupied months (summer through autumn) the view from the house is of plants rather than vehicles.
Architecture by Structural Anomaly
Landscape Construction by Schoonhoven SLM