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Design Process

Designing Your Garden - Our Complete Service

From concept to completion, we offer a full garden design service tailored to your needs.

Creating beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces requires vision and experience. Whether it’s an intimate courtyard or a sprawling landscape, every project is unique – just like our clients.

Here’s how a typical garden design journey with us unfolds:

1. Initial consultation and brief

Every garden design project starts with an initial consultation and site visit. These early conversations are an opportunity for us to discuss and agree the functional and aesthetic requirements and aspirations for your garden, to create an agreed 'client brief'.

2. Site survey and analysis

This a foundational information-gathering stage of the garden design process. It usually includes a further site visit to undertake a detailed analysis of your current garden and the commissioning of a topographic survey of the site if necessary.

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3. Outline garden design plans & masterplan

Based on your brief and our site analysis, we develop initial garden design ideas. The result is an outline design proposal, presented as a garden plan, basic 3D model, illustrative sketches, reference images, and material palettes – all to help you visualise your future garden. Once you're happy with the outline design proposal, we produce a final landscape masterplan drawing, which captures the agreed layout design of your new garden.

Hand-drawn landscape design plan of a garden with pathways, trees, and features like a pond and seating areas, viewed from above.

4. Detailed design and specification

We then work to detail all aspects of the design, including hard landscape elements (construction drawings, specifications for paving, steps, walling, seating, water features, etc.), alongside all soft landscaping details (planting plans, specifications, plant schedules, tree selection, etc.). This step may include close coordination with other professionals involved in the project (architects, engineers, etc.).

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5. Sourcing a landscape contractor

We can recommend high-quality professional landscape contractors from our network to undertake the garden build. We will help coordinate the quotation process on your behalf, either with a single, preferred contractor or via a restricted tender process in which two or more recommended contractors are invited to quote for the garden build.

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6. Garden build and planting

With a professional landscape contractor in place, we will inspect the garden build on your behalf, helping ensure the garden is built as per our design and to the highest quality standards. We will coordinate and set out the plants with an experienced planting team.

7. Post-completion and after-care

Gardens are living spaces open to the elements and to seasonal change and all gardens require some maintenance. During the project, we will communicate the key maintenance requirements for the new garden and advise clients on how to keep their garden looking beautiful for many years to come.

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A view of a lush garden with colorful flowers, green trees, and a greenhouse seen through a window, with two people sitting on benches and a dog lying nearby.