This almost perfectly square garden was initially forbidding. Three-metre-high lattice screens enclosed a site that was fairly barren but for a handful of residual fruit trees.

The design refocused views from the garden’s edges to its centre: the fences are now screened with dense planting while a series of curved forms frame internal spaces within the larger square. Existing red brick was reused with precast concrete for the paving and low rendered walls added as seating edges that also retain garden beds. 

The largely exotic planting retained two of the fruit trees, added lavender, rosemary, roses, clematis, various perennials and other evergreen trees and shrubs.