Our Garden Design Process

The first step in our garden design process is an initial consultation to visit the site, get to know each other and assess what design aspects you require. This will enable us to create a fee proposal for these elements and create the design brief that meets your taste and requirements.

Depending on the size and complexity of the site, a professional site survey will be carried out to plot the existing garden & house, mapping features such as trees, levels and notable points. This is essential in creating an accurate base plan to work from.

The garden masterplan will draw together all of your aspirations for the garden paired with our own creative flare. This will consist of a 2D masterplan, 3D visuals and mood board imagery. This plan is mostly focussed on ensuring that the layout of the garden is perfect, considering locations of both hard landscaping, planting, walling and bespoke features, whilst also suggesting materials and style.

This stage of the garden design process fine tunes all material decisions and develops the initial masterplan even further. The following plans would be common of the detailed design stage.

• Detailed design plans, containing more in depth information of each area in the garden
• Materials plans, specifying all material finishes in the garden such as paving types, walling materials, cladding etc.
• Construction detailing. Technical drawings and section elevations of all constructed elements of the garden will enable the garden to be built and costed exactly as specified.
• Levels plans, detailing all levels and falls across the site.
• Lighting Plans, specifying all light fittings and circuit runs throughout the site.
• Irrigation plans, detailing all irrigation types and feeds across the site.

The part that brings the project to life! Good planting design is key to any garden, even with a simple scheme. These plans will plot and quantify all plants needed for the garden and it will enable us to accurately cost the planting supply and installation.

The above plans containing all elements and details of the gardens are then packaged together and sent out for contractors to quote from. This will enable like for like quotes and ensure that no details are lost from our design intent.

Ongoing consultation throughout the build to ensure that the design is not compromised and that any changes can be managed effectively.

We source high quality plants from trusted suppliers and ensure that they are correctly planted, with necessary soil preparation and aftercare, resulting in a much more successful planting scheme.