Bring your garden back to life.

“Do I need my whole garden redesigned? I like the garden layout but it doesn’t feel inspiring. My plants are all a bit old fashioned, overgrown, and, well, not like the beautiful gardens I see on Instagram. But I know this can be so much more! I don’t feel confident with plants, and I don’t know where to begin.”

This is an example of a real garden design enquiry we get. It is from a client who is unsure where to start with their garden. They are unsure how to bring it back to life, while marrying it with their personal style. This is a job for a Garden Designer or Landscape Designer.

A Design Enquiry like this doesn’t always require a complete garden redesign and build, but rather some clever and creative editing and adjusting. Depending on the degree of the likes and dislikes in the garden this could be:

Garden Restoration - restoring the initial fabric of the garden, then adding the essential detail, the furniture and the plants to align it with your style.
Garden Renovation - tweaking the existing landscaping, adding additional areas then working on the styling detail and the plants.
Beds and Border Rejuvenation - essentially a planting design to rejuvenating existing over-mature, outdated or overgrown borders.

Not all gardens need completely demolishing and rebuilding. Some have a good backbone; some have history that would be a tragedy to extinguish; some have an intrinsic sense of place that we can build upon.

Engage a Garden Designer.

This is recommended for this type of garden project. Why?

Garden Designers are creative. We will identify the opportunities within the garden. We have the skills and ability to take an existing garden, edit it sensitively and breathe freshness and life into it, while aligning it with your style and the style of your house.

Garden Designers have vision. We will work with your existing features, make adjustments, while adding design detail, features, and incidental experiences throughout the space. Locating sensitive new routes to smaller destinations, and (using a light touch) creating vistas, focal points and visual encounters will enhance your enjoyment and connection with the garden.

Garden Designers are a good investment. We take you carefully through the design process and ensure you are happy with the design direction. Most importantly, we are there to make sure you are assured the design, the choice of materials, plants and styling, the budget, and the choice of contractors are right for you - before any works proceed.

The end result of the restored, renovated, or rejuvenated garden can be dramatically different, but without the need for a complete rebuild.

If you have a project such as this:

a garden layout that works well, but the atmosphere/emotion, the style, the planting is wrong;
the garden lacks something special - lacks that je ne sais quoi you crave for;
the garden doesn’t quite marry with your lifestyle,

then do give us a call to chat it through.

We are really happy to discuss your garden project - be it a garden edit, or a full redesign.