Client Consultation
A garden designer harnesses their creative and horticultural experience to produce tailored, affordable and desirable designs, that will make you truly love your garden. Understanding a client’s wishes is critical in achieving this goal, making the consultation phase the most crucial step in the whole design process. Walking and talking the garden with its owner, ensures candour and clarity is delivered in the final design.
As such, the first stage of the design process is the initial consultation. This is free, very informal, and undertaken with no obligation to commission a design.
Understanding what may already being working in the garden, what may not be working, as well as gaining insights into wishes, requirements and desires, are all critical in delivering a bespoke design. All this information is captured via a series of tailored discussion points.
Site Survey
Following commission, a full survey of the garden is undertaken. This will enable a scaled base plan of the garden to be drawn, in preparation of starting the design.
Concept, Working and Maintenance Plans
For a designer’s vision for a garden to be ‘seen’, various plans are produced. Besides the hand drawn site plan, all my plans are produced on computer software, allowing me to present ideas in both 2D and 3D, the latter placing you right into the heart of your new design. This allows you to view the garden from different angles and ‘walkthrough’ at eyelevel, seeing the design at different times of day and even in different seasons. It is the very best way to experience your new garden, before being actually able to stand in it.
Concept Plans present the essence of the design, but may lack specific information such as plant varieties and material finishes that will be used. Any number of concept plans can be developed, each presenting different ideas or themes.
Once a concept has been accepted, fully scaled Working Plans are then prepared, detailing all plant, material and lighting specifications, allowing the design to be readily costed by a garden/landscaping company.
If required, Maintenance Plans can be developed that will highlight the tasks necessary to maintain the new garden, including pruning, clearing and cleaning schedules, throughout the year.