Garden & Landscape Designers in Wiltshire & Gloucestershire

Garden Design Practice Consultation: -

Free initial visit.

"Informal get to know each other" friendly and relaxed meeting at the property. (Within 30 miles of Malmesbury UK. Further distances by agreement.)
This is an initial fact-finding discussion to ascertain your "wish list" to include into the proposed landscaping project.
Detailed garden site survey depending upon overall project requirements.
Outline garden design drawings of initial proposals for discussion and possible amendments to suit your preferences.
The budget factor is always a slightly awkward discussion point, as some customers believe that contractors will always reach or exceed that figure. We will always give best value for money whilst ensuring that the design and construction meet our high standards of construction for a long-lasting completed project. Cutting specifications or important design criteria only makes for short term cost savings. Remedial work is always more expensive to carry out.

Garden Design Features

We try to cater for both your personal family, lifestyle and the property’s individual needs.
We use our wide experience of planning to suit the aspect, surroundings, gradient and soil type of your garden.
Focus on use, practicality, key feature, materials and colours, likes & dislikes, planting preferences, safety, children and animals, future maintenance needs.
Provide samples of proposed materials where we feel there is a personal choice possible.
We are able to create different style gardens from Japanese, Italianesque, Mediaeval Knot, City or country Courtyard or small gardens, Country house or Manorial atmosphere.
Planting ideas and layouts can be designed for the use of each individual garden or just one border.
Water features from bubble fountains, modern stainless steel features, children's splash play areas, streams, rills, dry streams to large waterfalls and natural ponds can be designed and created.
External Lighting Projects highlight the key elements in the landscape and provide unobtrusive soft lighting for access and your leisure viewing. Gives wonderful all year round effects.
Include hot tubs, swimming pools and watering schemes along with timber, stone or brick enclosures, changing rooms or follies if you wish in the design brief.
We have a diverse experience of practical designing. More than 25 years of drawing architectural and landscape projects.
It is better to design for a known approximate value than to create a masterpiece and have to try and reduce the essential design elements to create a compromise that only just works.

The essential design and construction is carried out by our own staff. We have full public liability and employee insurance. Our work is guaranteed to be constructed in a professional manner and to a high standard of workmanship in all aspects.

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A quick note about Garden Creation Costs.

We are regularly asked how much a particular project will cost our clients. This is never an easy question to answer as much depends upon the amount of materials and time that we think will be involved. Until the site has been surveyed and a set of new scaled design drawings made an accurate value is not possible.

What we recommend is that our clients consider a few key value indicators when thinking about the expense of a new garden.

1. How much is your homes current market value. If you spent 5-10% of that value, your property's saleability is likely to increase as well as the expected market value.

2. How much will you spend on a new car? £15000 - £20,000? As soon as you drive it away you lose about 30% off the value in depreciation. A garden appreciates both in value and enjoyment over at least five to ten years.

3. Will you still be at your present address in 7 years time? A well planned garden, as with a great kitchen and bathroom will help sell your house if you decide to move.

4. We firmly believe that in life you generally get what you pay for. Our workers are conscientious and put a lot of effort into creating your garden to the highest standard possible. We take pride in the outcome.

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Construction:

We use our own skilled and conscientious construction team. Some with soft and hard landscape experiences acquired over a twenty-year working period in the building and horticultural fields.
Our courteous, well-mannered workforce will keep you informed of progress, problems and anticipated time / days on or off site.
We try to provide a speedy but thorough service.
Site kept as clean and tidy as is possible at all times with consideration for safety and access priorities.
We ask our customers to be involved and their input is valued at all stages of the contract.
I sometimes joke that your garden becomes my garden while the team is working on it. We really do try and give a personal touch to every aspect. It only becomes yours again once our work is complete!
While we are on site amendments to the design are sometimes identified that may improve the way the garden will be used or viewed. These are costed and incorporated if possible to retain the overall design integrity.
Any specialist aspects that we feel are better handled by other experts can be included and supervised by us on site.

Use the link bar below the books, to follow on the landscape & garden design information.

These garden design books could give you a great insight into the type of ideas that will suit your garden and lifestyle.

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