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Historic project record · Brixton, London
Marlborough Mews: A Tropical Garden in Brixton
A compact mews garden organised around clay pavers, gravel, reclaimed sleepers and layered tropical planting.
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Context
A compact plot requiring a coherent route through dense planting.
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Brief
Create a private tropical garden that remained useful after dark.
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Delivery approach
A controlled paving fall, recessed access cover and ground-level beds kept the plot visually open.
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Materials / logistics / coordination
Lugano clay pavers, Spanish Gold gravel and reclaimed sleepers were installed before compost and specimen planting.
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Outcome
The archive records a herringbone route, informal gravel, mature foliage and warm lighting.
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Recorded project details
- Paving set to an approximate 1:80 fall with recessed access cover.
- 11.8 m² of 204 × 50 × 60 mm Lugano clay pavers.
- 23 m² of 12–20 mm Spanish Gold gravel with metal edging.
- 32 reclaimed railway sleepers, approximately 2,600 × 250 × 125 mm.
- Approximately 2,400 litres of compost and a Dicksonia antarctica tree fern.
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