Strip
Overgrowth and turf lifted off — down to honest ground.
Field study — N°05
Companion — N°04, the terrace
A scroll film
See the work beneath the lawn.
One plot, eight stages, thirty-five seconds. Scroll on and the ground is built from below — drainage, base and edging laid true, then turf, planting and a full season of growth — a single frame at a time, at the pace you set.
The build, scrubbed
Utilities
Trenches cut to fall; grey PVC land drainage and an orange conduit sleeve laid in.
Path bed
Woven geotextile down, concrete edge restraints set, sprinkler heads roughed in.
Foundation
Crushed-stone base struck true; borders dug and black bollard lights wired.
Turf & gravel
Turf unrolled seam by seam; the path filled and raked with washed gravel.
Planting
Borders planted through in drifts; the lawn knits over every seam.
Grown in
One season on — seams gone, borders lush, the first cut struck in stripes.
From wild ground to a lawn that lasts — drained, based and edged, then turfed, planted and grown in.
- IStrip
- IIUtilities
- IIIPath bed
- IVFoundation
- VTurf & gravel
- VIPlanting
- VIIGrown in
Frame by frame
The same ground, eight times over.
Every stage of the build, held still — so you can read the craft in each: what goes in under the lawn, and what it takes to make it last.
Overgrown01
Self-seeded and uneven — the brief hiding in plain sight. We read the levels before a single spade goes in.
As found
Stripped02
Cleared to bare earth; roots, turf and rubble carted off. What's left is honest ground to build on.
Excavation
Utilities03
Trenches cut to fall — grey PVC land drainage and an orange conduit sleeve for power, bedded and backfilled before anything covers them.
PVC drainage + conduit
Path bed04
Woven geotextile keeps base and subsoil apart; concrete edge restraints hold the line, with pop-up sprinkler heads set flush to the finished level.
Geotextile + edge restraints
Foundation05
A crushed-stone sub-base compacted true in the path; borders dug to shape and black bollard lights wired in along the run.
Crushed-stone base + bollard lights
Turf & gravel06
Turf unrolled seam to seam over the prepared bed; the path filled with washed gravel and raked level between the restraints.
Turf laid + gravel path
Planting07
Borders planted through in drifts; the lawn complete but still showing its seams — weeks, not years, from the finished picture.
Borders planted
Grown in08
Seams knitted invisible, borders filled and lush, the lawn cut to stripes — the same plot, a full season on.
One season on
The film ends here
Let's build your ground.
This one was rendered. Yours is real — bring the plot, or just the idea, and we'll tell you honestly what it wants to become, and what needs to happen beneath it first.