Peacock Design

Examples of Projects

To date I have completed over four hundred design projects, for a wide range of clients. Below is a brief list of the type of projects I have been involved in:

HOLKER GARDEN FESTIVAL SHOW GARDENS

  • 2010, Gold Medal: 'The Weekend Gardener' small courtyard category
  • 2011, Gold Medal: 'As Time Goes By' small garden category

DOMESTIC GARDENS: FRONT & BACK GARDENS

  • Smallest: Planting up of seven tiny stone troughs
  • Largest: 2.5 acre grounds to Grade II, former gentlemen's Georgian residence
  • Styles: Low maintenance, family, modern, traditional, cottage, formal, informal, rural, town, courtyard, maritime, oriental, disabled friendly, terraced, sloping (a speciality), sloping, vegetable, patio, vegetable and Lakeland.

PUBLIC & COMMERCIAL PROJECTS:

  • Beer Garden: The Ship Inn, Sandside
  • Business / Industrial parks and individual office surrounds
  • Care Home ground and private gardens
  • College and University Grounds 
  • Entrance steps and ramps into public buildings: Ambleside Parish Centre, Govan Church, Glasgow
  • Equestrian Arenas
  • Hotel and public house grounds
  • Funeral parlour 'Contemplation Garden'
  • Nursery, primary and secondary schools: active play areas, quiet reading spaces, wildlife garden, adventure play areas, landforms for creative natural play, bicycle racks, fruit and vegetable gardens, grass running tracks and courtyard gardens
  • Park homes, lodge & static caravan parks: Hawthorns, Nether Kellet 
  • Pedestrianisation schemes
  • Planting schemes for planning applications
  • Renovation of Public Parks and Gardens: Happy Mount & Regent Parks, Morecambe, Gardens of The Storey, Lancaster
  • Show house garden and housing developments
  • Supermarket site: Booths, Milnthorpe
  • 'Toddler to Teenager' public play areas: Caton, Bolton le Sands, Warton, Bretherton 
  • Visitor centre garden: Sensory garden, RSPB Leighton Moss
  • War memorial renovation: Milnthorpe, Morecambe, Low Gill
  • Wildlife themed ceramic tiles: Dallam School & RSPB
  • Woodland screen and roadside planting  schemes

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

  • Allotments: Fairfield, Lancaster
  • Community growing projects: Willow garden project, Fleetwood
  • Nature reserves: FLORA & FAUNA , Lancaster
  • Orchard: Fairfield Millennium Orchard, Lancaster
  • Urban green spaces: Dale Street, and The Triangle, Lancaster

INDIVIDUAL FEATURES

  • Ceramics: House numbers, plaques, tiles and sculptures
  • Metal work: Ramps, gates, archways, pergolas, seats, fencing, shelters, handrails
  • Stone work: Steps, ramps, patios, gateposts, bird baths, seats, shelters, walls, raised beds
  • Timber structure: Arches, decking, gates, seating, screens, fencing, sign boards, decking, pergolas, bollards, raised planting beds, play structures and houses
  • Water features: Ponds, koi ponds, water falls, fountains, water falls, child friendly features