E.scape Garden

5 out of 5 stars★★★★★

“We have already discussed some additional planting with E.scape this year, 2020, in the garden that they designed and started to build for us in January of the year 2011. Then we faced the enormous challenge to transform the barren field extension to our newly extended and rebuilt house in Reydon, Suffolk. After searching many garden designers websites they were the first candidate we decided to meet with, mainly because we were impressed by their extensive portfolio and, most importantly, their previous customer's testimonies. We also visited a garden nearby designed by E.scape 10 years previously which we loved & booked a meeting with the desiner. The ideas presented at our initial meeting were really exciting enough to commission them on the spot. In response, a fantastic gravel garden was proposed by the design team, not only were drawings brought to the design meeting for a beautiful Mediterranean style garden but a more exciting option was offered to consider, with detailed planting plans. They suggested serpentine bay hedges and windbreaks of Holm Oaks and Monterey pines to combat the exposed site East coast site, which gave an immediately strong structure to the garden. It was the impact of the whole project visualised and presented so well by the designer that enabled us to go ahead with the more 'challenging' of the options. The entire project was broken down into several phases of development, allowing us to manage the budget with the initial preparation of the site, including the significant structural planting of trees and hedges. Additional plants were brought into the garden later that same year and in the following spring, with the garden evolving to this day. We were faced with a fairly blank canvas after the first stage was completed; having laid a massive area of gravel mulch over the whole site, to ensure we wouldn't have to weed from dawn till dusk, in readiness for the more detailed planting around the main structural windbreaks and hedges. The garden was nicknamed Aldeburgh beach for a few months until the paths were laid out and bedded into the gravel, and the planting had bulked up, demanding that we keep faith with the sheer scope of the design. Without the enthusiasm and expertise of E.scape for the project, we might have wavered at that point and backtracked to the safer planting option. Nine years on & we are happy that their interest continues to be an integral part of the development of this garden; wanting to visit and see it come into fruition, and to help the organic development of such a large planting. In a short space of time the garden developed amazingly and is now entering into full and wonderful maturity. They could have considered their 'job' finished long ago, but it is undoubtedly their ability and a shared passion for creating exciting and unusual gardens that makes the relationship between E.scape and the client a lasting one.”