My Services
I offer three levels of service, each beginning with a simple client survey and personal visit to your garden. During this visit, I’ll listen to your needs and preferences, ensuring that I understand exactly what you’re looking for. My goal is to help you create a garden that perfectly suits how you use it, while aligning with your budget and maintenance preferences.
Garden Consultation Service
If you’ve recently moved and want expert advice on how to get started with your garden, my Garden Consultation service is ideal for you and is priced on an hourly basis. Whether you’re unsure about which plants to keep or want to avoid costly mistakes, I’ll help you assess your current space. A full redesign might be something for the future, but in the meantime, I can provide valuable insights into identifying existing plants and making the most of your garden as it is.
During the visit, I’ll walk through your garden with you, listen to your concerns, and offer practical suggestions to help you create a beautiful, thriving outdoor space you can enjoy straight away.
Bespoke Planting Design
If you’re looking for assistance with border design, or planning planting for an existing space, my Planting Design service may be more suitable. For those who want more than just advice but aren’t ready for a complete redesign, this service offers a tailored approach to refining specific areas of your garden. Perhaps there’s a section that feels underutilised, or a gap in the planting that needs a thoughtful edit. With this service, I’ll work with you to address these areas, enhancing your garden’s appearance.
After a client questionnaire, on-site consultation and site survey, I’ll provide detailed suggestions along with a custom planting plan and accompanying mood board to illustrate plant choices. The agreed quote will cover the questionnaire, initial consultation, planting plan and mood board, plus one round of amendments to fine-tune the planting plan, if required.
Additional costs apply for further drawings created to help you visualise the possibilities for transforming your garden into a more cohesive and inviting space.
Complete Garden Design
My Complete Garden Design service offers a comprehensive approach to envisioning your outdoor space.
Client brief: I begin with a client questionnaire and complimentary initial meeting where we’ll explore how you see yourself using the space to develop an overall vision for the garden. We’ll think about your preferences for materials, design styles, colours, planting schemes, and any specific features such as seating areas or pathways, as well as the opportunities afforded by your garden’s aspect and conditions. I will develop a brief, to share with you, to inform the concept plan drawing.
Site analysis: For less complex sites I’ll conduct a site survey to provide a clear foundation for the design. For a more complex or mature site, a topographical survey can be completed by a surveyor. I will analyse the site and take soil samples.
Concept plan: From there, I’ll produce a scaled site plan, and develop an initial concept plan to bring our ideas to life. I will also share with you a plant and materials ‘mood board’.
Construction plans: Once you’re happy with the direction, I move on to creating a final working plan, complete with measurements for your construction team and a detailed planting plan to ensure a cohesive, beautifully designed space from start to finish.
Construction phase: I will work closely with your choice of construction team, with a further site visit to ensure the design is brought to life as intended.
Planting: For an additional fee I will be present when the planting phase commences to ensure plants are set out in line with the plan.
