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January 2
A large stone farmhouse with a spacious wooden deck, outdoor dining area, lounge chairs, fire pit, and rural landscape in the background.

Summer Oasis: A Garden for All Moments

Created by Living Colour

This garden doesn’t ask you to choose between stillness and celebration — it invites both, effortlessly. Summer Oasis is exactly that: a multi-sensory terrace garden designed to host laughter, solitude, reflection, and delight — sometimes all in a single evening.

Set on a large decked terrace built entirely from reclaimed timber boards and aged oak beams, the garden flows between spaces: from the outdoor bar where a pizza oven glows warmly, to the sunken firepit where evenings linger long into the night. At the far end, under softly billowing netted sails supported by eucalyptus poles, bespoke lounge chairs invite an afternoon doze or quiet conversation.

Field maples and pinus trees flank the garden, adding structure and softness. Beneath them, climbers spill down walls — Californian lilac, star jasmine, and the richly scented chocolate vine — creating vertical rivers of green. The hot tub, discreetly nestled beneath wisteria and blush roses, becomes a cocoon of comfort, perfectly placed for stargazing.

A long tressil dining table stretches down one side of the terrace, ready for alfresco dinners and spontaneous gatherings. Every material choice speaks of age and purpose — a garden built not just to impress, but to last.

Beyond the terrace, a rewilded meadow begins — untamed and low-slung, it meanders gently into the horizon, blurring the lines between designed space and natural landscape. Here, as the sun dips low and the shadows lengthen, time seems to slow. The Summer Oasis becomes what all great gardens strive to be — a place where every hour feels well spent.