Hal Forbes Adam

Garden Design + Landscape Architecture

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View fullsize A posey from the late September garden, with the deep pink Aster novae-angliae ‘Andenken an Alma Pötschke’, the lavender Aster x Frikartii ‘Monch’, pink Anemone ‘Prinz Heinrich’, and the grass is calamagrostis
View fullsize The water feature acts a focal point at the end of the garden, leading the eye to the view beyond. Appropriately, it’s an old stone livestock trough, and the fields beyond are pasture for grazing cattle and sheep. We used surplus stone from the
View fullsize One of our North Yorkshire projects at the end of its first summer. The last photo shows how it looked 18 months ago. #garden #gardendesign #gardenideas #gardeninspo #landscape #landscapedesign #landscapearchitecture #planting #paving #patio #paving
View fullsize The planting at our school games area and car park project is coming along nicely - installed over last winter. We planted hornbeam hedges around the perimeters because it can be kept nice and slim and holds its leaves through winter if clipped in S
View fullsize This garden in York was planted up in the Spring and already looks quite abundant - helped along by all the rain. Roses are still to cover the walls and arch. The last picture was ‘before’ - what was a fairly sad looking lawn is now a l
View fullsize Design proposals for regenerating a tired old woodland and pasture. The woodland is 50% conifers so very little light reaches the ground, resulting in a bit of an ecological desert. I am proposing to fell most of the conifers and use the woodchip as
View fullsize From an empty lawn devoid of wildlife (last pic) to a humming woodmeadow habitat bursting with life. Luckily the client hadn’t ever fed or weeded the lawn so there was a modicum of diversity in the sward, but we planted masses of bulbs and smal
View fullsize Oak raised beds looking good in the sunshine ☀️ #garden #gardendesign #gardenideas #gardeninspo #landscape #landscapedesign #landscapearchitecture #planting #paving #patio #pavingdesign #nature #flowers #plants #habitat #ecology #woodland #meadow
View fullsize Oxeye daisies, Leucanthemum vulgare, now taking centre stage in this meadow up in Yorkshire. #garden #gardendesign #gardenideas #gardeninspo #landscape #landscapedesign #landscapearchitecture #planting #paving #patio #pavingdesign #nature #flowers #
View fullsize Native wildflower meadows at one of our countryside projects. The pink Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, was taking centre stage when these photos were taken in mid May. #garden #gardendesign #gardenideas #gardeninspo #landscape #landscapedesign #
View fullsize We planted lots of whites and creams in this front garden, in contrast to the back garden which is full of colour. We wanted the house to sit in a lush pillow of green, with simple white frothy highlights. Here Luzula nivea is giving way to Libertia
View fullsize A few photos sent from a client. The planting is in its second year and has really filled out. The valerian and the fennel are looking especially lush, thriving on the sunny bank which is practically impenetrable because it is so full of the hardcore
View fullsize The experimental gravel meadow at Skipwith Hall, now in its third season. A mixture of planted and sown, native and non-native plants in a deep gravel mulch. It’s filling out nicely and the combo of Geums and Aquilegias is really popping right
View fullsize A classical layout with cottage garden materials and planting. Lots of frothy textures and pastel colours to come as Summer unfolds. It was only planted up last month so it has some maturing to do, and the many fabulous climbing roses have a lot of w
View fullsize The new games pitch we designed at Brontë School in Kent, where the planting is starting to get going in the brick raised beds, and the Hornbeam hedging is leafing up nicely. We designed the oak benches to be simple and generous as this is also
View fullsize The creation of a biodiverse woodmeadow habitat on a previously empty lawn. The brief was to turn a space that had close to zero benefit for wildlife into a place where wildlife could thrive. A woodmeadow is essentially a mosaic of woodland and meado
View fullsize The rusty bronze foliage of the Carex testacea is starting to turn to its zesty summer green in Northern Ireland. The other plants are emerging through the grasses as the season unfolds, and a succession of colours and forms will come and go in swath
View fullsize New woodland planting getting going, growing underneath a giant weeping wild cherry tree. A mix of native and non-native species growing in green-waste compost with a bark chip mulch to retain moisture during the establishment phase. Evergreen Vibern