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Garden design

Thoughtfully designed gardens and outdoor spaces, created around you.

Designed with you

Your garden, designed with you

Whether you dream of a cottage garden, a haven for wildlife, pond planting or a clean contemporary look, we will design a garden around you and your space.

Shaped around you

A design built around your space, your style and the way you want to use your garden.

Happy with the plan

Nothing is planted until you are happy with the plan, and you are involved at every stage.

A free first chat

The first conversation costs nothing, so you can talk through your ideas with no obligation.

Garden design

How it works

  1. i.

    Free consultation

    • We visit, look at your space and talk through what you would love your garden to be
    • Further afield? For a design only or design and delivery service, we can chat by phone or video call
    • Simply send photos or videos of your space and we will ask the key questions to get it just right
  2. ii.

    Design for your approval

    • You receive a planting design and mood board to look over
    • We adjust them until they feel just right
    • Your design is yours to keep and bring to life yourself, or we can carry on to the next step together
  3. iii.

    Sourcing & planting

    • We source the plants and plant everything in for you
    • Or we arrange delivery from a leading specialist plant nursery, ready for you to plant yourself
  4. iv.

    Aftercare advice

    • Bespoke aftercare advice, tailored to your garden and your plants
    • Helping your plants settle in and flourish for years to come
    • Help with any questions as your garden grows
Plants for wildlife

Plants chosen to attract bees, butterflies, dragonflies and more.

Wildlife gardening
Red admiral butterfly on verbenaWater forget-me-notsPainted lady butterfly on hydrangea beside buddleiaBumblebee on purple loosestrifeGlobe thistle in a cottage border
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Before & after

Recent designs

Before: the empty bed with new log edgingBefore
After: a newly planted bed along the paling fence with log edgingAfter
After: astrantias, astilbes and liriope filling the borderAfter

Borders for part shade and part sun

This customer had two borders, one in part shade and one in part sun. Each was planted to suit its aspect, with a mix of plants chosen to give the year-round colour she wanted, and plenty of spring bulbs tucked in too.

More from this garden
A pink Japanese anemone against the fencePurple liriope spikes in the new borderThe fence-side bed planted with astilbes, anemones and heucherasFlowering border with log edging beside the lawn
Before: dark green sheds beside a bare lawnBefore
After: a grey shed behind a chestnut paling fence and a cottage border full of flowersAfter

From bare lawn to cottage garden and wildlife haven

New borders, a wildlife pond, a cottage border and wildflower areas, bringing colour and life to the whole space.

More from this garden
Pink roses and a window box along the white timber shedPink hydrangea heads in the cottage borderPink and purple lupins in the gardenPink candelabra primulas in the cottage borderRed geums and London pride by the paling fence
Before: a tired, weedy bed beside a local business on the lochsideBefore
After: the bed replanted with persicaria, bidens, nemesia and catmintAfter

A lochside refresh for a local business

A local business wanted a fresh, welcoming frontage. Being right by the loch, every plant was chosen to cope with wind and salt spray while still giving plenty of colour.

More from this planting
Blue hardy geraniums and dark heuchera against the wallPink persicaria spikes with nemesia and catmint
See more in the gallery