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The ALB Team
Emma Mazzullo, Practice Director has recently completed a delightful contemporary garden in Islington where the deep shade of a huge Magnolia grandiflora was circumvented with a sinuous path lined with grasses and flowering bulbs, leading to a glass garage/pavilion.
'The client's brief was to keep the materials simple and maintenance to a minimum' says Emma but being Italian, the clients also wanted perfectly detailed hard landscape to echo to exquisite detailing of the interior of the house.
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PROJECT FOCUS: SOUTH GERMAN PROJECT
Last autumn Arabella went to supervise the setting out of a new pool in this delightful garden near Zurich which she has worked on since 1995. Says Arabella "It is such a pleasure when the gardener takes one's ideas and implements them tenfold as here where maintenance is immaculate.
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Key to the design was to create a sense of unity and order between the vernacular buildings and to provide structure. The design of Taxus hedges with espalier Malus 'Golden Hornet' amongst others define the spaces whilst simple but bold herbaceous planting provides texture and colour.
 Here cubes of Buxus frame beds containing Cynara cardunculus forming an architectural statement beneath the pleached Malus 'Golden Hornet'. On the other side of the beds, zig-zags of peonies within structural hazel supports with box balls, irises and annuals provides structure and colour all year around. 
This view of the south side of the house shows the rustic vine clad pergola and a planting combinations of lavenders, roses and santolina.
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