“I honestly couldn’t be happier with my experience working with Ellen. She was absolutely brilliant from start to finish, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her.

The whole process was so well organised. The pre-design work was really thorough, with a clear brief agreed before the design started, and Ellen set out a timeline which she stuck to perfectly. She also managed the budget brilliantly, giving me options and building in sensible buffers, so there were no nasty surprises. Communication was great throughout and everything ran so smoothly.

What I loved most was how Ellen took a whole load of random ideas I’d had floating around in my head for the best part of four years and somehow turned them into my dream garden! The designs were beautiful, the product choices were spot on and she was really flexible when changes were needed during the build.

One example that really sums up Ellen’s approach was my wish to have a wildlife-friendly garden. She found a shed that worked with the design and even asked the designer to incorporate a bug hotel into the roof. It’s those little touches that make such a difference and showed me how well she’d understood what I was trying to achieve.

She was also great at challenging some of my ideas and explaining why certain things might not work. This was especially helpful during the build, when I occasionally started questioning things we’d originally decided on. Ellen would gently remind me why I’d wanted them in the first place, and she was absolutely right to do so! She really understood what I was trying to achieve and helped me stay true to that vision.

She was brilliant with the landscapers too, and clearly has a real knack for bringing all the different elements together.

Above all, Ellen is just such a lovely person to work with. She’s friendly, thoughtful, incredibly organised and genuinely cares about getting things right.

I couldn’t have asked for a better experience or a better result. I’d recommend Ellen to absolutely anyone thinking about having their garden designed. She turned four years of ideas into a garden I absolutely love!”