We offer a full design service…

This is the first and important step in the design process, it’s where we get to discuss your project and requirements in depth. It’s a chance for us to walk around your garden together and for me to understand your thoughts on how you want to use your garden and connecting space. It’s a chance to understand your likes and dislikes for plants and materials as well as understanding any site challenges that may need to be tackled.

At this visit we will take photos, soil samples and measurements of the garden (for larger sites, a landscape survey may be required). All this information forms the foundation of the brief, which your design is developed from.

This meeting normally lasts a couple of hours and costs £150.00 which is offset against any commissioned design work, so that it becomes free to all clients who decide to proceed.

Depending on the type and complexity of the project, a survey may be needed in order to gain accurate information about the site. This survey forms the basis from which any design work is produced and so accuracy is essential. The initial consultation will establish what level of survey will be necessary.

Following the initial consultation, a summary of the site will be drawn up, this document forms the basis for the design brief and outlines ideas discussed at the meeting. It also sets out the cost of the design work.

Once the brief has been agreed and signed off, the design work can begin. A concept design is drawn up and we meet for a second time to discuss this plan together in detail. This meeting provides the opportunity to discuss the design fully and make any adjustments as required. After this meeting the final outline plan will be drawn up.

This drawing is the finished, approved and detailed outline plan for your garden. This drawing contains the details from which your garden can then be built. Discussion can be had now regarding any additional drawings you may require such as construction, setting out drawings or other documentation such as “scope of works” to enable a select group of landscape contractor to produce quotes for you or your project monitor.

Once the Outline plan has been completed, a detailed planting plan will then be produced. This plan takes into account our wide ranging discussions. The plants selected will be suitable for the site conditions and will have been chosen to give long periods of interest as well as suiting the level of maintenance available there by making the design practical, sustainable and pleasurable for years 
to come.

Some clients want help with appointing a contractor and working through the tender process or with overseeing the build itself. These are all areas in which I have experience and can do.

The whole process is very flexible and any part of it can be undertaken in isolation depending on the client’s needs
and requirements.