DESIGN

My garden design process follows a well established process, with you and your garden at the centre. What I bring throughout is a love for working with my clients, an unhealthy knowledge of latin plant names, and a dollop of creativity.

Here’s how it usually goes:

  1. Site survey: taking into account existing trees, levels, boundaries etc.

  2. Developments of your client brief: what’s on your wishlist? Outdoor kitchen? Creating access for a new home office? Hide the trampoline? Improve kerb appeal for your front door?

  3. Creation of a moodboard for your new garden: what styles do you like? How do you want it to feel? How does it tie in with your home and lifestyle?

  4. Identification of particular zones: entertaining, play, utility, driveway, home office, pond, outdoor kitchen, pool etc.

  5. Identification of key views from the house, so your views compliment your vantage points, whilst also bringing in the “borrowed landscape”, ie everything that sits beyond your garden.

  6. Development of a Masterplan Design, made up of a 2D overview, and 3D visuals, to help bring it to life.

  7. Development of a planting plan to suit your garden and your planned level of maintenance.

  8. Selection of materials, like paving, gravel and pergolas.

  9. Introduce you to the landscapers or specialists, to quote from our scale plans.

  10. Construction, then planting

“Vicky was patient, supportive, and full of helpful advice. She went above and beyond her role as a garden designer, truly taking the time to guide us and make sure we could develop and maintain our garden.“

Camille & Craig, Guildford, 2024