Unearth your back garden oasis

We combine art, design, and spatial creativity to find the balance between your personal style and a practical, outdoor space that suits your lifestyle and needs. Find out about our range of garden consultancy services including creative design, planting advice and garden landscaping.

Initial Consultation

An on-site consultation to discuss your gardening needs. We're a small, family business so our consultations will always have that personal touch.

  • Tell us what you would like your garden to be and how you want to use it

  • Discuss new landscaping and design ideas

  • Where possible, Identify the plants that are currently in the garden

  • Recommendations for plants that suit your garden's soil type, each border's aspect and the colour and structural choice

  • Gardening tips and advice

The first meeting is so important as it allows us to learn about your garden and practical requirements, as well as your personal style preferences. We can get a feel for the space and check the soil condition before we start any design work.

Garden Design

Garden Design Plan (example)

Example of a 2D Garden Design Plan. All plans are to scale.

Our full garden design service includes:

  • A garden survey and scaled survey plan (we can use your plans if available)

  • We have a small team of designers with a wide set of experience and skills to provide artistically created designs that are both achievable and practical

  • Based on your requirements recorded during the initial consultation, we create and mutually agree on the best design for your garden, drawn on a scaled schematic plan (see the list of available plan types)

  • The design concept is presented to you along with mood board slides including images to assist concept visualisation and planting ideas.

  • Everything is present to you online and we provide digital copies

Your new garden plan will be drawn to scale and will show your garden layout once the work is completed. It can be used for DIY projects or to get cost estimates from your chosen landscaper. However, we'd love to help you manage the entire project to see this plan through to the finished result. Chat to us about our design and buiild packages if you don't already have a landscaper in mind.

3D Garden Visualisation

Levels and scale can be particularly difficult to imagine from a flat plan. 3D visualisation images and videos are able to bring the design of your new garden to life. Our talented designers can create 3d images and tailored walkthrough videos to help you visualise levels and angles, how colours and textures work together, and see how light travels through the garden, both during daytime and at night.

This garden design packs so much into a relatively small, triangular space. The garden incorporates a courtyard with water feature, lounge seating area, outdoor dining area and a hot tub zone with shower.

The lawn, beautifully planted borders and features make this a garden designed for entertainment and relaxation, day and night.

Planting

Full planting plans can be provided with monthly care instructions for your gardener.

Let’s face it, you can’t have a garden without plants, so planting is key to our designs and one of the areas we get most passionate about! With over 25 years horticultural experience and several RHS medals, Jan has the expert touch.

Depending on your needs and budget, we can provide planting recommendations in any form from a simple buying list, to a full planting plan with an online database of plants and monthly care instructions. We also provide plant audits, plant sourcing and on-site planting services.

Tree choice is seldom straight forward, in fact it is extremely easy to plant the wrong tree in the wrong position and mistakes can be expensive. Our tree selection advisory service can help you to avoid the common mistakes and save you money as well.

Landscaping

As part of our full design and build service, we provide project management to keep the landscaping to the design. Along with skilled and friendly landscapers we bring your dream garden to life.

We would be happy to provide a quote once you are satisfied with the garden design.

Gardens and Plants… bringing gardens to life and on budget.

Regenerative Gardening

Regenerative Gardening for a healthy garden with more biodiversity and less cost

Does gardening do more harm than good to the planet? Many clever people think so and it is hardly surprising when you consider the pressure we gardeners come under from the media and product suppliers. Put simply: We over fertilise, kill too many creatures, use too much water, move stuff too far and it all comes wrapped up in unwanted packaging. This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, which is why Regenerative Gardening is becoming so popular.

The idea is to do less and let nature do the rest, (with a little nudge here and there). The result is healthier soil which leads to healthy plants, more of those wonderful creatures and, believe it or not, less unwanted plants.

Other benefits of Regenerative Gardening techniques include: Carbon sequestration, water retention, less work and lower costs.

So why not reverse your gardening’s impact on the planet. If you would like a healthy garden, more biodiversity at less all round cost then try Regenerative Gardening.

You can always contact us if you want help getting started.

Wildflowers

Gardens and Plants are accredited partners with Wildflower Turf Ltd.

See more info here: www.wildflowerturf.co.uk

Green Roofs

Gardens and Plants are qualified green roof installers.

Irrigation

Irrigation systems can help protect your planting investment, keep the plants watered when you are away and help reduce water wastage.

Gardens and Plants are certified irrigation system installers.

Let’s create your dream garden

If you're a little lost with how to transform your garden space and want a friendly, experienced, and knowledgeable garden designer then leave a message via the contact form and we'll get back to you to arrange a consultation.