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This London garden was Brazilian designer Roberto Silva's first commission. A sinuous dry stone wall snakes around a cherry tree and fountain in a painterly arc before encircling a timber deck. The orange yellow gravel contrasts with the green lawn, and Silva's planting consists mainly of shrubs and trees chosen for their foliage effects - eucalyptus, maples, tree ferns.
The slate wall and fountain of three boulders stacks were inspired by the work of sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. Randomly arranged in the gravel is a collection of flat stone slabs, and hidden beyond the deck is amplification equipment - the garden is a venue for family concerts.
Silva trained in Brazil, where he was naturally influenced by the work of Roberto Burle Marx, and then worked on Public Park restoration in Sao Paulo. He came to train in London in 1992, where he has mainly "English gardened", as he puts it, for metropolitan clients.
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