Sealls projects
Here is a small selection of the many projects that we have carried out – if you would like to see more, please let us know.
Chelsea Flowershow 2008
Doyle Garden
Springboard
Arts & Crafts Kitchen Garden
Westcott Lutyns
Holmbury St Mary
Boardwalk and pond, Godalming
Westcott wildlife pond and wildflower meadow
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
Silver Medal
The Mist-placed garden depicts a lost and neglected chapel garden. Formerly a place for quiet reflection and solitude, this garden has been untouched for years, but still retains the peaceful and calming spirit.
Viewed from the front, the chapel garden is surrounded by the original York stone walls that maintain the damp and shady environment. The stone is softened by mosses and ferns that have naturalised in the walls’ deep fissures.
Worn York paving frames a reflective pool and clover and grasses seed profusely through the irregular paving joints. The original gate remains, although the supporting columns and walls have deteriorated over time.
The planting throughout the garden is entirely green and white, with varying shades of green, creamy white flowers and variegated foliage to emphasise the calming and restful qualities of this garden.
Creating a Chelsea Garden
Comments from Chelsea
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www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea/2008/courtyard/mist-placed.asp
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Doyle Garden
A Surrey house that was rescued from developers, from the outside a very un-assuming property though now renovated by its new owner a statement in clean contemporary lines and peaceful living - The design that we developed along with the clients brief, reflected this in both its form and its function. We included irrigation and a quite unique harvesting system that utilised the rain fall yet did not impede its onward journey. Bio-diversity of the garden was greatly increased through habitat creation both in water and on land. The most beautiful Yorkshire stone was used with ribbons of mineral deposits running through it. Re-claimed bricks along with lime mortar were used for the walls. A classic mix of clean contemporary lines and beautiful timeless materials brought together to create a space for relaxation reflection and an amphitheatre to watch nature change her mood.
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Springboard
The Springboard Project is a community based charity providing a safe, accessible, inclusive play and recreation centre for young people with special needs or disabilities and to families with young children, irrespective of their ethnicity or status.
Seals Landscaping has been involved in upgrading the Jubilee Leisure Garden since 2002. In that time the area has been transformed through laying artificial grass football pitch as well as further artificial grass and wetpour rubber safe play areas.
Drainage and recycled water irrigation systems have been installed allowing the children to enjoy the area all year round. Regular maintenance is also carried out to keep improving the area keeping it attractive and safe.
The latest phase of the development has been to transform an unusable area into a maze and sensory garden. This involves designing and creating a box hedge maze in the right side of the garden, with artificial grass pathways and irrigation system, making it safe with minimal maintenance. Leading from the maze is a tropical sensory garden with bold foliage plants creating the lush tropical feel. A snaking pathway leads through the area whilst posts and rope form ideal supports for climbers and hanging space for wind chimes the children have made, offering gentle sounds as they catch the breeze.
Creating the Jungle Walkway design in the Springboard garden can only be described as fun.
A small project with a big retail children and parents love it.
Safe wild natural adventure.
Achieved through good garden design, quality …
A lot of fun for small space!
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Arts & Crafts Kitchen Garden
A very interesting project, the brief from the client was to turn a very awkward area with quite a steep incline into a beautiful yet practical vegetable and cut flower production area.
The house is a very beautiful 17th century Slinfold Barn which was moved and re-built in the Surrey Arts and Crafts style of the very early 20th century.
As such we carried this style through into the garden; this presents itself as great garden design with exacting attention to detail with contemporary touches such as hidden LED garden lighting, which with the plentiful foliage create a night time experience of subtle shadow and illumination of the craftsmen’s art.
This kitchen area forms part of a 2 acre garden and as such the garden design needed to bring it in to the greater scheme with cohesion and fluidity.
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Westcott Lutyns
Impressive house with impressive view that required an impressive terrace.
This was achieved by excavation of all existing surfaces, the laying of one hundred-millimetre sub-base and capped off with the most beautiful re-claimed York stone flags. These are cathedral grade. They still echo the laughter of their former keepers.
Previously they were the surface of a playground in Liverpool. Critical fall heights, were not the important consideration for the Victorians, that they quite rightly are today!
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Holmbury St. Mary
This garden was created by David encompassing all aspects of his work from an indigenous pond with high bio-diversity to a contemporary stone pool with fibre optic lighting, a well-designed and functional kitchen garden, pleached hornbeams with solid oak steps, re-contouring of a difficult site and delighted clients.
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Boardwalk and Pond
We were contacted by Waverley Borough Council who wanted to turn a piece of unused flood ground with low bio-diversity into a useable public space - it was decided to create a pond to replicate an oxbow from the River Wey that runs alongside.
The area is subject to reasonably high levels of pedestrian traffic, both for school runs and work runs. A boardwalk was constructed using re-cycled plastic posts, as the site is subject to extreme winter flooding.
Turfs containing existing flora and fauna were lifted during excavation of the pond and re-laid at completion, no plant life was imported and the site now has both increased bio-diversity and increased public usage with no negative environmental impacts.
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Westcott wildlife pond and wildflower meadow
Contacted by client wishing to turn well-used horse paddock into wildflower meadow in conjunction with large pond / lake. We obtained planning consent on behalf of the client and excavated the pond, the very poor sub-soils were buried and the useable sub-soils were spread across the site and ploughed in, this had the desired effect of lowering the fertility.
This is a major requirement in order to keep out species of invasive and unwanted vegetation. The seed mix for the meadow was a provenance-mix all obtained from within the High Weald.
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