PLANT : Tranby Front Garden

This 12 x 18 foot ornamental front garden is a modern reinterpretation of the traditional historical urban street idiom (evident on most of this Victorian street) of low wrought iron fence containing planting and a heavy cast iron vase. The decorum of the “social contract” with the neighbors is maintained, but the execution is turned on its head: the ground cover is junk slate - the off cuts from a flooring factory, the vase a wrought iron spring – anything but heavy and stable, and filled with “dead things” (the client request a no, not low maintenance garden. The wrought iron fence is simple and incorporates a wood band.