Scotland' Housing Expo

The Gardens
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Scotland’s first Housing Expo will showcase the very best in 21st century architecture and sustainable living. The gardens surrounding these remarkable houses will form an important and integral component of the overall appeal of the development. In order to reflect the importance of gardens as a key feature of our living environment, the Housing Expo has commissioned 11 garden designs to showcase good design practice, and to demonstrate the relationship between the house and its immediate landscape.

Nine of the gardens have been designed by Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway in association with Horner and Maclennan. The gardens at The Passive House on Plot 11 and The Skye House on 17 have been designed by the architects associated with those houses.

Specific gardens within the 11 designs will feature their own particular themes. For example, Plot 12 at The Gem explores an `Edible' theme featuring edible berry shrubs, fruit trees, and herb planters. Other garden designs will pick up on particular `house themes' such as Plot 22 The H2 House, which displays clean, formal lines to reflect the minimal lines of the house's external architecture.

There is, however, a shared aspiration and common thread that runs through all of the garden designs: they reflect the clean, crispness of the architecture through a minimalist approach and limited palette of materials.  They are contemporary and modernist - all about simple, elegant design.

The plots