The clients' wish was to extend the living room outdoors. Therefore, the focus was on an outdoor kitchen as a place of attraction and meeting for the family, but of course also on the garden experience," says garden planner Yannick Krüger.
Before the redesign, the narrow green space around the house didn't have much to offer—it consisted only of a patch of lawn and a few shrubs, such as rhododendrons, that weren't suited to the location and were growing poorly. The garden soil was too heavy for the demanding flowering shrubs, which in their native acidic, raw humus soils. Therefore, the only option was to remove these plants and fundamentally change the character of the garden with site-appropriate plants and new materials.
Yannick Krüger included only one common plane tree (Platanus acerifolia 'Dachform') in his redesign, complementing it with others to create a constellation of three. Since the surrounding area, particularly a gabion wall at the property boundary, was perceived as disruptive, the garden planner also wanted to focus attention on the garden space itself.
With cleverly arranged espalier trees (wild pear – Pyrus pyraster), surrounding neighboring buildings were hidden, and the gabion wall was transformed into a living green wall with sweetly scented white umbrella panicles using a climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea petiolaris).
Formed trees such as cloud-trimmed yews and 1.40 m high beech hedges, which slide like barriers between the lounge area and the actual garden, divide the garden into green rooms.
