Multi-award-winning garden design studio.
Winner of Ireland's Best Landscape Project
2020
The Natural Swimming Garden
Location Carlingford. Co. Louth. Ireland
The Natural Swimming Garden is a contemporary landscape centred around a natural swimming pool designed to blend seamlessly into the surrounding garden. Combining ecological water filtration with carefully structured planting, the design creates a place for both relaxation and swimming while maintaining the atmosphere of a beautifully crafted private garden. The project also features, prairie-style planting, gabion stone walls and a bespoke garden gym. The garden received national recognition when the landscape contractors were awarded the Bog Oak Trophy for Best Landscape Project in Ireland.
This stunning project was almost two years in the making having gone through an extensive design process, followed by detailed planning permission application right through to completion. We were given the opportunity to transform a green field site attached to the main property into a lush, plant filled paradise. Located close to the sea front, each plant was chosen to thrive in the salt laden air and the often-dry sandy soil. Using over 7,500 plants, trees and hedges, we created a garden that will not only look stunning but it will also form a new habitat for the local birds and wildlife. The garden features large gabion walls (stone filled cages) for shelter and structure and an impressive garden room/ gym overlooking a beautiful natural swimming pool. Natural swimming pools require no chlorine and are instead kept healthy by the plants that grow in it.
This project is part of our wider portfolio of contemporary garden design and outdoor living spaces created for our clients across Ireland.
Silverstream Landscapes, who constructed this awarded The Bog Oak Trophy for Best Landscape Project in Ireland 2020.
View a video of the journey of this project from concept to completion here.
Oak cube seating set within prairie-style perennial planting in this contemporary garden designed by Andrew Christopher Garden Design.
Natural organic swimming pool beside a contemporary garden gym designed by Andrew Christopher Garden Design.
A natural swimming pool surrounded by layered planting and stone gabion walls in this coastal Irish garden.
A sheltered seating terrace surrounded by lavender planting and tall gabion stone walls protecting the garden from coastal winds.
Oak cube seating positioned within relaxed prairie-style planting in this contemporary Irish garden.
One of the concept drawings created during the design development of this award-winning Irish garden.
Outdoor seating surrounded by prairie-style planting within this large coastal garden in Ireland.
Outdoor dining terrace sheltered by gabion stone walls protecting the garden from coastal winds.
Garden gym designed by Andrew Christopher Garden Design with large bifold doors opening directly onto the natural swimming pool.
Outdoor gas fire creating a relaxing poolside seating area beside the garden gym.
View from inside the garden gym across the surrounding garden and natural swimming pool.
A luxurious outdoor seating area overlooking the natural swimming pool in this contemporary Irish garden.
Prairie planting beds framed by curved gabion stone walls and gravel pathways.
Mass planting of Dutch-style prairie perennials creating seasonal movement and colour.
Close-up detail of coastal prairie-style planting within this contemporary garden design.