Tower Bridge

Dominated by a 3m high brick wall with imposing black brick piers this garden to the back and side of a new warehouse conversion close to Tower Bridge was initially an inhospitable concrete yard. Rather than attempt to disguise the piers and the overwhelming wall, they were played up, with a row of mirror image piers constructed to introduce a new axis to the garden, providing the backbone off which the garden is subdivided into three different areas, all partially screened from each other by raised beds full of mainly herbaceous planting.

Bamboo and clipped box combine with strong structural framework to give bold winter form while in the summer months the perennial planting takes over. photos Helen Fickling