Understanding Your Garden
Garden Design
Planting plans
Handmade Oak Planters
Garden Structurers
Water Irrigation Solutions
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A garden designer brings huge knowledge and expertise to your garden project, ensuring that every element harmoniously fits together. They possess a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of horticulture, which allows them to select plants that will thrive in your specific environment.
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Moreover, they help solve any spatial challenges and maximise the use of available space. A skilled garden designer will not only enhance the appeal of your garden but also increase its functionality, making it a peaceful and practical outdoor retreat.
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By considering factors such as soil type, light availability, and microclimates, a garden designer can create a thriving ecosystem that supports local wildlife and promotes biodiversity. Their expertise in irrigation and drainage ensures that your garden will be sustainable and easy to maintain.
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In addition, they can incorporate advanced lighting solutions, creating ambiance and enhancing security. With a garden designer, you can confidently embark on your new garden project, knowing that it will be meticulously planned and beautifully executed.
Every project starts with an accurate plan
A successful garden plan starts with a thorough assessment of the site’s existing conditions. This involves measuring boundaries, noting slopes and levels, and identifying microclimates influenced by sunlight, wind, and shade. Your garden may already have a style (cottage, formal, informal, Mediterranean), or you are keen to develop one. It may reflect your personality, take a lead from the architectural style of your home. Nothing is set in stone. However, there is always a need for a plan.​
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Often it is not the entire garden being redesigned, just a small part, a new walkway or focal point, a water feature or new structure.
The above drawing shows key elements of a garden including a focal point, vegetable beds, herb garden, walkway, lawn, flower border, small orchard and driveway. This garden also includes privacy hedging.
No garden exists in a vacuum. The dreams and requirements of those who will use the space must be woven into the fabric of the plan.
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Creating Beautiful Gardens
Translating Vision into Structure
Once the groundwork is laid, the plan begins to take shape. Here, structure and style converge, informed by practical realities and creative intention.
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Master Planning: Drawing the Blueprint
A master plan is a scaled drawing that shows all major elements of the garden—patios, lawns, planting beds, paths, water features, and focal points. It is the skeleton upon which the living body of the garden will grow.
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Planting Plans and Technical Drawings
Beyond the master plan, detailed planting plans specify the placement, quantity, and type of each plant. Technical drawings clarify construction details for hard landscaping elements, such as walls, decks, or pergolas. These documents are invaluable not only for the garden owner, but for contractors and tradespeople who will bring the vision to life.
Inaccurate or vague plans often lead to misunderstandings, delays, and unnecessary expense. Precise documentation is the designer’s guide and the client’s assurance that the garden will be realised as intended.
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Planning for the Unexpected
Even the most meticulous plans cannot account for every eventuality. Weather, availability of materials, or changing needs may require adjustments along the way. However, a robust initial plan makes adaptation easier, providing a clear framework within which solutions can be found.
A good plan is not a straitjacket, but a tool for creative problem-solving—a reference point that guides each step and ensures that the garden remains true to its purpose even as it responds to change.
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Choosing the right plants
Plant selection is the most important part of your new garden design. Spring bulbs, annuals, bi-annuals, perennials, border shrubs, evergreens, conifers, screening, hedging, ornamental trees, larger trees. Having established the key elements of soil type, sun movement, wind, drainage and warm and cold areas, the colour pallet and garden style needs to be established.
Developing ideas
The importance of garden structures
No garden is complete without the subtle architecture of structure. From pergolas and arbours to trellises, pathways, and retaining walls, these elements do far more than provide practical support—they shape the spirit and identity of the landscape. Structures include;
Vegetable and herb beds
Arches
Pergolas
Gazebos
Walkways
Fruit cages
OUR SERVICES
Working closely with hard landscape contractors I offer a simple garden design service. Designing a garden space or helping to overcome the need to make a change to the current layout. Once the concept design is approve by the client a final plan with material choices and accurate measurments is drawn to enable the contract to quote for the work.
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The key service I offer are:
1. Garden Design.
2. Recommendations to planting specialisits for flower border planting plans.
3. Advice on planning and introduction to planning consultants where necessary.
4. Bespoke design for garden structures especially, decking platform, pergolas, arbours and walkways.
5. Water irrigation systems.
6. Handcrafted oak planters made to individual client specifications.
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