Award-winning landscape design, providing end-to-end service throughout London, Surrey, Berkshire, and Kent.

BESPOKE GARDENS, DESIGNED, BUILT & MAINTAINED

At James Ewen Powell Garden Design, we pride ourselves on providing a comprehensive garden design & consultancy service. This encompasses landscape design, construction management, expert planting, and meticulous garden styling. We are dedicated to crafting outdoor spaces that reflect our clients' vision and enhance their lifestyles.

OUR PROJECTS

WEYBRIDGE

WALTON ON THAMES

ST MARGERETS

LONGFIELD

CHELSEA

HAMPTON WICK

BALHAM

BARNES

Welcome to Hortus Forma, where we specialize in providing exceptional landscape and garden maintenance services for homeowners who demand the best.

COMING SOON

🌿 This charming bench invites you to pause and immerse yourself in the garden’s serenity. Working in harmony with the existing Ginkgo and the beautiful existing 3 meter Taxus beehive (just out of shot), we added pleached Fagus atropunicea trees to create a natural canopy. This not only offers privacy from neighbors but also lends a strong structure that beautifully contrasts with the soft, flowing perennial planting below. Every element here is thoughtfully designed to balance privacy, beauty, and tranquility. 🌳✨

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Transforming outdoor spaces into functional, stylish retreats! 🌿✨ We recently completed this custom outdoor kitchen, featuring a premium stainless steel grill, a wood-fired pizza oven, and a sleek Big Green Egg setup. The stone countertop adds a touch of elegance, while the clean lines and modern design make this the perfect spot for entertaining or a relaxing family meal.
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A hidden spot in the garden, perfect for these cooler Autumn months and escaping the world with a good book, or glass of wine.

We designed and built this garden and was given the task of creating a garden mainly for entertaining, but also to include an area to get away, so we snuck this area away around the side of the gym and created this tropical oasis to delve into. We made the concrete fire table, as well as the side tables and paving in house from polished gfrc concrete.
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Before & after of a recent project showing the importance of garden lighting.

A classically beautiful garden that really finishes off the recently renovated house. Not quite finished as we’re waiting on furniture, pots & a bioclimatic pergola but we’ll be showing more in the coming weeks…
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The calming sounds of trickling water follow you as you walk around the garden.
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We designed this garden to really extend the living space for the client, making a perfect area to entertain. This high specification build included everything you could need to enjoy the garden rain or shine, summer or winter. The bioclimatic pergola has many features seamlessly integrated, such as @sonos sound connected into the internal system, @bromic_heating heaters with market leading radiant heat output that warm you and not the air while also blending into the surroundings, as well as multifunctional aluminium roof louvres that at the touch of a button easily close or tilt, and dimmable lighting so you can really set the mood.

The planting has been designed to juxtapose against the hard landscape material palette used. The dramatic Jungle planting condensed into the raised beds and potted areas create a big impact with their large leaves and architectural forms thriving in the protective microclimate created but also really naturalising the space and placing it well in the thriving garden.

📷: @dru.creative
Design & Build: @jamesewenpowell

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Starting a garden build can almost instantly feel like a daunting process, with the old needing to be worked on first making it seem the end is a long way off. Often with landscape works you’ll need to remove, and restart, making a blank canvas for the landscape team to work from. It’s all part of the process of a beautiful garden, and it will take time, but ultimately it will be worth it. So stick in there and trust the process, you will get there, and it will be worth the wait for your dream garden.

This is a project we build in 2017 and shows what’s involved. Obviously a big change but well worth it, and the clients have had years of enjoyment.

Design & Build: @jamesewenpowell

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This covered fireplace has made this clients garden somewhere to entertain all year round. Covered, you’re always out of the rain, and with the heat of the log fire it takes a lot to feel the cold.

A fireplace or fire pit is such a great space in the garden we find ourselves incorporating in the garden more and more, it really brings another dimension to the garden especially on a chilly evening.

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A garden planted last Autumn starting to really come together and establish, it will take 2/3 years to really get there but we’re really happy at how it’s progressed this year.

The rill was used to lead you through the garden and connect the different spaces, as well as attracting wildlife, it also adds the soothing sound of water so you can really switch off and relax.

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The client wanted the perfect garden for entertaining, we delivered.

📷: @dru.creative
Design & Build: @jamesewenpowell

The perfect evening spot…

📷: @dru.creative
Design & Build: @jamesewenpowell

It’s almost the weekend, so to celebrate here’s a recently completed project in Surrey. The planting still establishing but looking beautiful in the sun, a fantastic place to relax and just enjoy being in the garden. Designed with a rill that leads you through the rich variety of planting, bursting with colour and texture.
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A few from our current project… There’s still a long way to go but the main entertaining space is getting there, and i’ve got to say i’m pleased how it’s turning out as it’s already got some serious wow factor.

So far we’ve built the Bioclimatic pergola, concrete tiled wall and clad pond, raised beds with lounge area, living wall, and main dinning space. We have tropical/architectural planting to soften the area with a number of concrete pots and a main concrete dinning table to go in the centre.

There’s a high spec for the project which is bringing up some technical design/build detail that we are looking forward to, with a sunken swim spa with remote retractable cover, and outdoor kitchen that will be built in different parts of the garden.

I’ll keep you upto date as the build progresses.
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The ultimate outdoor entertaining area… Outdoor kitchen, lounge seating, outdoor television, fire table and bar. All ready for Sunday! It’s coming home 👀

All works undertaken by our team.

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It was great to catch up with a clients garden we built almost 4 years ago today, I love the wild planting scheme and Pratia pedunculata creeping over the paving in the dinning area. Swipe though the photos, she’s a beauty.
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Good news today, George was given the all clear! After a severe swelling on his back leg, and a worried vet thinking it could be cancer he was quickly referred to Fitzpatrick referrals (the supervet) for a rather expensive operation and biopsy. After a long wait today and a phone call I’d been dreading he was given the all clear, and the end of me being a nervous wreck 😅. Our clients favourite member of the teams back on site ensuring all the boys are pulling their weight.
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The Beer Tree - a concept put together by the guys at @rosebanklandscaping that we built. Scroll through the photos!

This garden was built for entertaining, so a beer tree focal point to the garden? Yes please. 4 removal bench tops that uncover x4 ice cooler buckets.

Having been given the concept we worked out how to make the idea work. We put together drawings for our fabricators and had a stainless steel internal frame made with powder coated ice buckets that you could take out to restock. Ipe hardwood slats fixed for seating matching the benches and BBQ area as well as LED strip light to illuminate the seat in the evening and multi stem silver birch planted in the centre.
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Progress on one of our current builds...

This bespoke outdoor entertaining area is going to be a show stopper, outdoor television, bar, lounge seating, fire table, and BBQ area.

The render is now finished, and the pergola framework is almost up so you can see the shape coming together, next up roof, cedar clad ceiling, bespoke concrete bar, and a moody colour palette to allure you in and never want to leave.

Definitely going to enjoy next week!
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It’s great to see one of our recent builds start to come to life. This Barnes garden was built in Autumn last year so this will be its first growing season, I’m excited to see it establish and our vision for the garden come to life for the client who also can’t wait! .
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I think it’s safe to say we’re all looking forward to the end of lockdown and spending sunny days in the garden.

It’s been a tough year but the end is near ☀️
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Garden lighting
We try not to incorporate too many lights into our lighting designs, our aim is to create a romantic, inviting feel, leading you through the garden. This garden we built really shows that to full effect, not only creating avenues leading you through the lush planting but giving soft lighting into the main entertaining space and creating a beautiful picture as you look out from the house at night.
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First day on site today for our new project starting in Walton-on-Thames, this ones been in the pipeline for a while so it’s been great to finally get going. The bleak expanse of soil will change quickly into deep prairie borders, formal lawn, sandstone pathways, corten rill, and a feature greenhouse. All to be built and incorporated in the design. I’ll share the photos as the build progresses... working alongside @excalibur_building_contractors with this one.
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The perfect space to relax on a summers evening... this outdoor television room we built really gave the garden the wow factor, outdoor television, fire table, sunken seating, and bioclimatic pergola that with a touch of a button the roof opens... Making your garden an extension of your home is so important and this garden really does deliver. A brilliant design concept by Matt Keightley and executed by our team.
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Our pool house renovation, what I’d do to be here today... We redesigned this pool area to sit gently into the fields surrounding, cutting beds into the vast area of Yorkstone and planting with a soft Prarie style planting. The area itself was a mess (swipe left), having been neglected so we had the task of relaying the spot laid yorkstone, steam cleaning and repointing the entire area... not for the faint hearted but well worth it in the end. I can’t wait until the planting establishes this really will be heaven next summer.
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It’s BBQ season! An outdoor kitchen we recently built for a client in Oxshott. We put together a contemporary design that allows for a great cooking space as well as bar area so the cook never feels left out of the party.

Materials - The Concrete countertops were sprayed in our workshop and create this great bar area. DesignClad by @_londonstone was used for the cladding. BBQ’s @biggreenegguk and @bullbbquk (including doors). .
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A project we finished earlier this year. It was a pleasure to build and work with such a high specification, pushing the boundaries on what what you can do in a British garden. I will post some of these features in the coming weeks.
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As outdoor kitchens go this is certainly one of our favourites. Built with a monster in situ poured concrete countertop (4.8x3.6), Firemagic grill, pizza oven and Shou sugi ban splash back. I’m proud to say all works were done in house by our experienced team. .
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Garden renovation starting today. .
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With a Bioclimatic pergola you really can bring the outside in with a touch of a button. We installed this pergola earlier this year with electric louvers that allow you to let the sun in or close off to keep the rain out. Installed with glass doors, outdoor kitchen and infrared heating it really is a perfect extension to your home and great for entertaining. We also redesigned the garden levelling the sloped garden and installing new planting, raised beds and level lawn. Take a look at the before and after photos at the end. .
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One of our gardens putting on a show in Autumn. .
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