Large Wimbledon Common garden

Lots of self-sown shrubs and small trees were removed from this garden to create a lighter, more open space. A generous long border disguises the bare trunks of the existing privacy conifers and a large lawn provides space for the grandchildren to play. The new, larger terrace is perfect for outdoor dining and entertaining. An elegant garden room has its own private garden.

Clipped standard olive trees in dark planters flank the orangery's glazed doors, giving the main terrace a calm, formal note, while a wrought-iron table and chairs make the most of the space for family meals outside. Tucked to one side, a small bistro table offers a quieter coffee spot, framed by shasta daisies, roses and hydrangea.

The long border is the main feature of the garden: geraniums, hydrangea and drifts of erigeron soften the base of the conifer screen through summer, while spring brings a display of near-black and blush-pink tulips with alliums following. At the garden's far end, the Crane Garden Building sits quietly among the trees, its own small terrace and planting giving it the feel of a separate, private retreat within the wider garden.

A Wimbledon Common garden before its redesign, with an overgrown path, mulched bed and mature trees around a brick outbuilding. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk Before the transformation, the garden was dominated by mature yew and birch trees, a worn
Concept plan for a large Wimbledon Common garden, showing a curved shrub border, mature trees, dining terrace and vegetable beds. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk This concept plan lays out a substantial Wimbledon Common garden built around a sweepin
Spring tulips border a stone terrace with dining furniture outside the orangery. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk Pink and purple tulips line the terrace edge in spring, with the orangery's dining table and potted olive trees visible beyond against t
A wrought-iron dining table sits on a stone terrace outside the orangery, flanked by potted olive trees. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk An elegant wrought-iron dining set is arranged on a stone terrace beneath the orangery's glazed doors, with clip
A small bistro table and chairs sit on a stone terrace beside a border of shasta daisies and roses. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk A simple wrought-iron bistro set offers a quiet coffee spot on the stone terrace, tucked beside a border of white sha
The Crane Garden Building is glimpsed through mature yew trees beyond a terrace bistro set. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk A glimpse through dark yew branches reveals the cream weatherboarded Crane Garden Building, with a small bistro table set on
A pale pink rose blooms among blue geraniums and cream hydrangea flowers. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk A full, pale pink rose opens among sprays of blue geranium and the soft ivory blooms of hydrangea, capturing the layered, romantic planting sty
A long border of blue geranium and pale hydrangea runs alongside a neat lawn. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk A generous long border combines drifts of blue geranium with pale pink and white hydrangea and ferns, its curving edge following the line o
Delicate pink and white erigeron daisies bloom in front of soft pink hydrangeas. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk The airy, pink-tipped flowers of erigeron (Mexican fleabane) scatter through the foreground, with the blurred blooms of hydrangea provid
A bistro table and chairs are framed by hydrangeas, roses and daisies in a Wimbledon Common garden. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk Seen from a different angle, the terrace coffee spot is backed by soft pink hydrangeas, shasta daisies and a climbing
A rattan sofa and wrought-iron dining table furnish a stone terrace outside the sitting room. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk Comfortable rattan seating and a wrought-iron dining table furnish the terrace outside the sitting room, with olive trees i
A close-up of the pale pink David Austin rose 'Queen of Sweden'. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk The softly cupped, pale pink blooms of Rosa 'Queen of Sweden' are shown in close detail, with two budding blooms echoing the flower's gentle colouring.
Purple and pink tulips lead the eye across a lawn toward the orangery. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk A border of purple and pink tulips and lavender lines the stone path, drawing the eye across the lawn toward the white-painted orangery and its ou
A stone path leads across a lawn bordered by daisies toward the Crane Garden Building. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk A curving stone path threads between borders of white daisies and hydrangea, leading across the lawn toward the cream-painted Cran
Deep purple and pale pink tulips bloom together in a spring border, with alliums budding nearby. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk Near-black Tulipa 'Negrita' and pale pink 'Mistress Mystic' tulips rise together against the lawn, with alliums just com
A long summer border mixes hydrangea, daisies and echinacea beside a mown lawn. JaneShanksterGardenDesign.co.uk In high summer, the long border brims with white and pink hydrangea, shasta daisies and pink echinacea, its curved edge following a neatl
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