THE PIGGERY GARDEN

This personal project for Carol is a small suburban garden in Cork City.  The beauty of naturalistic perennial planting has blended well with the structure provided by espalier apple trees and a vegetable garden.

Carol wanted to develop a garden that would be low maintenance and sustainable with an emphasis on facilitating a habitat for suburban wildlife. This garden has evolved over the years into a multi-functional space to garden, unwind and socialise.

Landscape Designer Carol O’Sullivan said:

“This is my own garden and is actually typical in size for a suburban garden. Therefore, I had to be very mindful of not wasting space for unnecessary elements in the design. It is beautiful and very practical- there is a veggie garden, a fruit section, a greenhouse and no lawn at all!. I designed this when we didn’t have children and there were never any regrets about not including a lawn. If I had, it would have taken over the whole site and made including other elements impossible. I’m a big fan of not making a lawn the most important thing in the garden for multiple reasons.”