Tag Archives: Decking

Garden design Hampton Part 1

Posted on by Ben West

We built our first Hampton Court show garden in the summer of 2008. The garden design consisted of  a pair of Douglas Fir ‘cube’ structures set together above a deck in the same timber. The cubes featured an integral canvas shade that offered welcome respite from the sun. And we certainly needed it as the [...]

Garden Design – Decking

Posted on by Ben West

A guide to garden decking How do you feel about decking in the garden? This question has a tendency to be divisive. Those that are against will tend to fall back on one or more of the following arguments; that it is slippery, that it will provide shelter for pests, that it will not last long, that [...]