Services

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• Planting Design

• Planting Design Consultancy 

• Garden Design

• Consultancy - Garden Audits & Monthly Maintenance Plans 

• Garden Coaching 

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Planting Design: 

My aim is to create a sustainable and beautiful planting scheme that will define the character of your garden, working with its sense of place. This is my step by step design process - 

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1. Initial client meeting (free) - Meeting to discuss the new planting scheme (including a client questionnaire). This will be followed by a proposal, detailed brief and estimate for your approval. 

2. Site appraisal - If you decide to proceed, a further visit may be needed to discuss the planting design project in more detail and to carry out a more detailed site appraisal. This will record key points relevant to designing the new planting scheme such as soil type, aspect, degrees of sun/shade and established plants. 

3. Mood Board; Planting Plan & Plant List - The next step will be to prepare a Mood Board of suggested plants. Once the plants are agreed, I will prepare a Planting Plan showing the siting of each plant within the new scheme. Also a Plant List specifying the name and quantities of each plant - again for your approval. An elevation of the proposed planting can be provided if wished. The completed documents will include a final version of your Planting Plan, Plant List and Plant Images. 

4. Sourcing plants - Once the Plant List and budget are agreed, I can carefully source the plants.

5. Preparing for planting and setting out/planting - I can improve the soil ready for planting and set out the plants/carry out the planting. 

6. Maintenance Plans - If required, an easy to follow Maintenance Plan can be provided for your new scheme.

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Planting Design Consultancy 

I can also offer a consultancy service to help you develop or refresh the planting in your garden or a specific area of the garden.

This includes a detailed pre-visit client questionnaire and around a 1 hour site visit followed by a report including a site appraisal, suggestions for improving the soil and Plant Lists of suggested plants. 

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Garden Design:

My aim for each client is to create a sustainable and beautiful garden, working with your brief and the garden's sense of place, 

involving the following step-by-step design process:

1. Initial client meeting (free) Initial client meeting to discuss your project (including a client questionnaire). This will be followed by a proposal and estimate for preparing a Concept Plan. 

2. Site Survey and Analysis - if you decide to proceed, a further meeting may be needed to discuss the project in more detail. A detailed site survey (taking measurements in order that accurate scaled plans can be produced) and site analysis (to understand the site's physical character) will be essential. It may be necessary to have the site survey undertaken by a land surveyor. 

3. Design concept/Mood Boards - these are produced in collaboration with the client to develop design ideas/an overall concept for the garden

4. Functional Plan Options - zoning the new design e.g. areas for relaxation/entertaining, planting areas, paths etc.

5. Draft Concept Plan including selecting hard landscaping materials and structural/specimen planting 

6. Final Concept Plan, Resource sheets for hard landscaping materials & Plant List for structural/specimen planting

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Consultancy - including Planting Design Consultancy (see above);

Garden Audits to identify the existing plants in your garden - this includes a report, divided into the key beds/planting areas, identifying all key plants with an image, botanical name and brief description;

Monthly Maintenance Plans - easy to follow plans specific to the plants in your garden. ​​

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Garden Coaching - hands on gardening sessions, held in your garden and specific to your requirements and garden planting, including e.g. weed identification, how and when to prune, mulching etc. Garden coaching sessions can work well together with a Garden Audit and Monthly Maintenance Plan. 

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