Garden Design
We offer garden design as a solution to reinvigorating tired garden spaces, injecting vibrant colour and creating imaginative ways to use unloved spaces.
Gravel Garden, SE25
Before…….
Gravel Garden, SE25
This front garden features vibrant colour, structural grasses and drought tolerant planting. The clients wanted replace the existing lawn and tired shrubs with more contemporary low maintenance planting to create a welcoming space for their young family.The brief was to fill the south facing space with wildlife friendly planting with height and colour and year round interest inspired by the Grasslands Garden at Horniman Museum Gardens. The planting also had to mask the neighbours' cars and wheelie bins to create an all encompassing space the children - and local wildlife - could explore and hide in. The site was sunny and protected so we planned to use miscanthus grasses with tall stipas; colourful flowering plants such as echinacea, rudbeckia and salvia; and more permanant structure was created with mounding lavender and euphorbia.Gravel was used to repress weeds to cut down on maintenance and retain moisture through hot spells. The garden is now full of life - the owners have spotted a hummingbird hawk moth enjoying the nectar and a goldfinch drinking from the bird bath!
Warm welcome home, SE19 .
Before…….
Warm welcome home, SE19
The client wanted the atmosphere of the garden to be one that was welcoming and inviting, full of beautiful scents, lush green planting and a little on the wild side. In order to create the sense of an invitation we designed an ornamental woodchip path to lead the eye of the visitor through the planting to the entrance of the house. Evergreen shrubs of varying heights with drifts of bulbs and herbaceous perennials planted throughout the garden provide vibrant colour in Spring through to Autumn. The colour palette is orange, yellows and pinks contrasting with zingy fresh greens and some structural multistem shrubs to give structure to the looser planting. The ground is carpeted with low growing herbaceous and evergreen shrubs and a wave of spring bulbs. In order to soften the hard landscaping that dominated the exterior of the house we created additional flower beds under the front room window and planted climbers and ferns.
Vibrant border, SE25.
The brief was to fill an uninspiring front garden border with colour and life all year round. We introduced long flowering Geranium and Erigeron to soften the hard landscaping with bright pops of Achillea. In the colder months a small Magnolia stellata and deeply coloured Hellebores take over. The local wildlife loves it and so do the neighbours.
Garden Design
Initial design
Detailed consultation to assess the practical use of the garden in relation to your aspirations for how you want it to look.
Site visits, emails, phone calls and other communications included in design fee
Measure site perimeter, key boundaries and features, existing planting and hard landscaping. Includes assessment of aspect, growing conditions and soil condition.
Produce concept sketches to provide a visual aid to illustrate and assess options for the site.
Discuss concept sketches and choose final design.
Final 2d plan of the layout for the proposed design. This will include setting out plans with measurements for hard landscaping & planting areas as outlined in the concept sketch and can be used to liaise with contractors/ architects
PRICES FOR DESIGN START AT
£ 2,300
Planting Plan
Prepare final planting list for the client including images and details of season of interest, size and prefered aspect.
Planting plan for beds and planters specifying quantity and location of all shrubs, trees and plants for the design.
Mood-board presented to client to convey the planting palette, style and feel of the garden
Estimated cost of planting based on an average £55 - £65/ square metre.
Cost dependent on final choices and size of area intended for planting. Any trees priced separately dependent on species and maturity.
PRICES START AT
£350
Garden Build
Carried out by landscape builders
Start date and costs TBC and agreed with contractor
Removal or relocation of any existing shrubs and plant material.
Cultivation of borders to improve soil structure as appropriate.Compost, soil improver etc required to prep borders for planting and delivery not included.