Full bespoke garden design and project monitoring

Your garden needs to be bespoke to you, your needs and your aspirations. To achieve this, I follow a robust design process, based on building a deep understanding of what you want to achieve in your outdoor space. My service includes:

• An initial visit at which I will talk you through the design process and what to expect; and at which we can discuss your tastes, your preferences, and your requirements for your garden. This will result in a design brief, and a fee proposal.

• A detailed site analysis, based on a topographical survey of your garden (to be provided by you, or undertaken by a professional land surveyor), considering the history, context, character and conditions of the site.

• A functional analysis, considering how different parts of the garden are to be used and how frequently, and how people will move through the garden at different times.

• A conceptual design, setting out the key elements within the garden, how they relate to one another, and how the overall concept ties back to the design brief.

• A masterplan, drawn to scale, setting out the layout of the garden, the location of specific features, the character of planted areas and the overall palette of materials; supported by a number of sections through the garden and sketches illustrating key views.

• Detailed design plans, at a more granular scale, from which a landscape contractor can cost, set out, and build the garden. These will include technical construction drawings of specific features, setting out plans, and detailed specifications.

• Planting plans, setting out the quantity, species, size and location of plants in the garden, supported by a schedule against which a nursery can cost and supply all required plants. Specifications for ground preparations will also be included.

• Support in selecting a landscape contractor to build the garden.