There is no really no such thing as a no-maintenance garden and even low-maintenance garden's do need some attention. Having spent a long day at work and with busy lifestyles, it is not always possible to get to grips with the garden at the weekend. As a result, the garden can get very soon become overgrown and often it is difficult to know where to start to bring it back under control.

This is where our "revitalise" service comes in — if your garden looks like a jungle but shouldn't, if your garden has exploded into growth and needs reining back, or just through lack of time the plants have expanded beyond their allotted space and you are feeling hemmed in  - or if your garden is looking tired and colourless, your borders needs cheering up a little; we can bring it back to where it should be: contained, manageable, colourful and above all enjoyable.

If you are happy doing your own garden, but you need some hands on advice, give me a call. You may be unsure how and when to prune certain shrubs, or not sure what some of them are called. The plants in the shady part of your garden might be looking a big worse for wear, and you are not sure what to do with them. You might have some gap in your planting which need some creative suggestions. Or you might just want a bit of inspiration and some ideas about how to improve the structure of your garden.  

Garden Design and Build Services

We have a flexible approach to our work but these are typical steps in the process of garden renovation or creation.

Contact us
We will either send you a questionnaire to complete, or just run through your requirements briefly on the phone. This is just to get some details about the size and existing features in your garden; your aspirations for your new garden and your budget. Costs for the design and any potential build work will be discussed with you at this stage, payments are broken down by the stages outlined below. 

Initial meeting
We will visit you, to discuss your requirements in further detail and to evaluate your current situation. You may want to recover your garden from an overgrown position, perhaps after moving house, or fully redesign. Maybe just a new border is required, or a new garden feature. We will take digital photographs of the garden to use as the basis for a new design, and also do the initial survey. After this meeting, we will write to you, with a quote for producing the design, and outline costs for work involved in creating your new garden. We will give advice on how best to get what you want from your garden in the most cost-effective way. On acceptance, a detailed survey is scheduled, if required, and the design process beings. On larger, complex site, we will use a surveyor. All other sites, we will do the survey ourselves.

Present our initial ideas and discuss
We visit you and present a concept design for the garden, which will demonstrate our ideas. We will discuss the inital draft with a view to making any amendments that you would like to see incorporated.