Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Call of the wild

Harmony and simplicity are key principles for Greencube Design in Kent, a landscape company with the aim of marrying clients’ interests and lifestyle with their garden. When it came to designing the home patch, therefore – self-dubbed a ‘modern meadow’ for its contrasting hard and soft elements – Amanda Buckland’s love of nature, wildlife and conservation guided the brief. “It’s about giving a bit of space back to nature,” she says, describing her quarter-acre back garden as “a bee and butterfly nectar pot, and a place to rest and to

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