Stephen Grover - gardens for people
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    • On the Hill
      • Small urban walled garden
        • A colourful summer garden
          • Concrete and wood
            • A challenging space
              • Working with client and architect
                • Photographers garden
                  • Small Stoke Newington Garden
                  • garden buildings
                    • Photographers summerhouse
                      • Colonial Edwardian
                        • Curved roof
                          • Folding doors
                            • The nicest sheds
                              • Thatched hideaway
                                • Summerhouse and workshop
                                  • Shed and garden room
                                  • other spaces
                                    • Doctors surgery
                                      • Playgrounds 1
                                        • Playgrounds 2
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                                        ..designed and made


                                        In 1955 Thomas Church, an American garden designer, published an influential book called 'Gardens are for people'. It is a valuable text for all landscape and garden designers, but the title struck me by its simplicity. Gardens are of course for people, it is a simple truth that all garden designers should hold in mind.

                                        With over 20 years of experience designing, building and planting, I will always keep this simple philosophy.

                                        And as much as the site itself influences the form of the design, the people who are to use the garden - the clients - will influence so many things within it.

                                        What I can supply are the skills and experience to make a garden that works, and can be beautiful. But the process begins and ends with the client.

                                        And the beginning of the process is for the client to contact me……