Each enquiry we receive is followed up by the office to arrange a consultation with our head horticulturalist and/or designer, who will devise a maintenance schedule tailored to suit your garden, your preferences and your budget.
Here you can view a selection of the projects we have undertaken and some of the gardens we maintain.
We are happy to supply written and verbal references on request or arrange for you to view previous examples of our work.
All our work is carried out to the highest standard and we are fully insured.
To view, please click on an option from the mini-menu.
Design
Development
Maintenance
Garden Features
Weddings
Whether you have just one area of your garden that is not fulfilling its potential, need planting advice for difficult areas or would like to re-vamp your garden, we can help.
Whether you want a mini makeover or are looking for a complete design, our award winning designer and horticulturalist will guide you and create a bespoke design or plan that suits your needs, dreams and budget.
We are always updating our design portfolio, so visit us again to see our latest installations.
Wildlife Garden
Urban Courtyard
Zen Garden
The Blue Garden
Our Beautiful Gardens
BACK
Here you can view a selection of the private and commercial gardens we maintain on different programmes.
We offer weekly, fornightly, monthly or seasonal maintenance schedules for year round - stress free enjoyment of your garden.
Hillbarn
Walled Garden
Artists Garden
Dumbrells
Does Your Garden Work for You? For the gardens illustrated here, the clients answer was "no".
People come to us to redelevop their garden for a variety of reasons. So if you have recently moved home, or your circumstances have changed you may also be wondering how you can utilize your garden to suit you and your family.
Perhaps your time is limited to tend the garden and you need it to be low maintenance. Perhaps you have young children or grandchildren and are concerned about the health and safety aspects of your garden, for example, which plants may be poisonous or unsuitable.
Perhaps you would like to grow your own vegetables, or recycle more! Or perhaps you would just like the garden to reflect your personal style. Whatever the scenario, developing your existing garden is an affordable way to achieve your perfect garden.
Suburban Garden
Modern Pottager
New Garden
Victorian Terrace
HILLBARN
This beautiful cottage style garden required a year round maintenance programme. The large mixed perennial borders and substantial selection of mature trees, roses and shrubs meant that this garden was best suited to a weekly 4 hour maintenance shcedule.
NEXT
Return to Portfolio
WALLED GARDEN
This garden is a real 'plantsperson' garden homing many unusual and soil specific species. It requires a border and plant maintenance programme and is scheduled for one eight hour session per month during Autumn to Spring, increasing to two sessions in Summer.
ARTISTS GARDEN
This garden has been maintained and developed. Initially requiring a 2 day blitz to reclaim the garden after a few years of neglect, it has taken a couple of seasons for the restoration pruning to refresh the tired planting. It now requires a border and plant maintenance programme, and is scheduled for seasonal mini-blitz and pruning visits, approximately one day four times per year.
PEVEREL
Our commercial clients include Peverel Management, one of the largest property management companies in the south.
For the last two years we have been awarded the contract to maintain the substantial communal and private gardens on the prestigious complex of 38 cottages in Ditchling, West Sussex.
URBAN COURTYARD
The aim of this design was to create a lush, natural, low maintenance garden, that included an entertaining area and screened the view of next door.
To create the illusion of space and depth, raised sleeper beds were constructed in an L-shape echoing the plots contours.
The planting was a blend of architectural, contemporary planting (to provide a year-round backdrop of structure and foliage) with a more natural, fluid planting style. This gave the desired effect of naturalism. The structure also included an integral 'living' seat, planted with an aromatic chamomile, thyme and grass lawn. In the narrow passage way, stylish copper planters held heavenly scented, evergreen climbers.
This design harmonised contemporary form and naturalistic planting, to create a private sanctuary, to be enjoyed with minimum maintenance.
Return to Design Portfolio
WILDLIFE GARDEN
The aim of this design was to create an aesthetically beautiful, thriving wildlife garden. The site had suffered from subsidence and this had left the ground unstable. A steep 1m drop was eroding away and the entire site was unusable space.
After the area had been cleared a reclaimed sleeper wall incorporating a raised bed was built to act as a retainer. A gravel path was laid to improve drainage, and a mixed native hedge planted along the back fence. On the higher level, an L-shaped pond constructed of new, untreated sleepers was built to house a nature pond, and the top fence was painted a bold blue to attract butterflies. The planting scheme incorporated plants particularly attractive to bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths, but also smaller birds such as finches which would be drawn to the seed heads in autumn. Rabbit resistant plants were also used, and the mix of native and cultivated species harmonises with the surrounding countryside whilst offering the client more variety. Blending foliage textures and adopting a random colour and height scheme creates the air of tamed wilderness.
NEW DEVELOPMENT
For this project, the client wanted her new garden given a framework upon which she could gradually build on and make her own. The main specifications were to disguise the garage wall at the end of the garden, to increase privacy without penning the garden in, a path to the gate and an eating area.
Due to the tapering shape of the garden, a octagonal patio design was laid and lattice trellis tops were fixed onto the existing fence panels. A diamond trellis bin screen was built alongside the garage, . Both were treated and painted with Sandolin. Unlike standard wood paints, Sandolin breathes and flexes with the wood, preventing cracking and splintering. It also has an eggshell like finish which really adds to the sense of sophistication. The colours of sage and pea were chosen to co-ordinate with the interior decor of the living room which opened out onto the garden. Evergreen climbers and tonal clematis were planted against the back wall with an vine eye and wire support system.
LAWN FREE ZEN GARDEN
The aim of this design was to create a garden space which utilises various materials to create a colourful, lawn free, low maintenance garden.
The old lawn was stripped and the area levelled. A narrow border was built along the back fence and to break up the monotony of the gravelled area, two materials in blue and green were laid in a natural fluid shape. This was seperated with bamboo edging.
The planting palette used yellows and blues to soften the hard materials and the overall effect conveyed harmony and movement.
In its centre a natural, rock monolith, water feature will be surrounded by golden stemmed Bamboos, Carex grasses and delicate, romantic Dieramas.
MODERN POTTAGER
In this back garden we have been maintaining for a number of years, the disabled resident wanted to give over some of the rear garden to growing her own vegetables.
Half the back garden lawn was removed and replaced with a contemporary version of the pottage garden, in which vegetables and flowers were grown together, usually in geometric patterns created from low box hedging. This cost effective alternative uses the Link-a-Bord system of double skinned boards made from 98% recycled plastic.
The beds were organised in a simple crop rotation pattern. The client is a keen 'green consumer' so all seeds were sourced from untreated, organic producers and the crops were managed organically. This included natural biological pest control or nematodes.
SUBURBAN GARDEN
The owners wished to improve on the existing garden, thus a planting plan was devised that complimented the existing trees and the house.
The garden is entered through an iron gate, naturally arched by a bay tree. This made the area beneath dry and shady and the clients previous planting attempts had been unsuccessful. An old and tired common buddleia was removed, and in its place 3 Black Bamboos were planted. These acted as an effective screen but also complimented the fresh contemporary style of the owners home. In front of the bamboos other shade loving perennials were recommended. Hostas with their large, dramatic foliage and heart-shaped leaved Brunnera. This created a rich, densely foliaged entrance. In the main garden the principal border was re-shaped to enhance the gardens journey and widened to enable staged height planting.
The flowering colour palette was predominantly blue based reflecting the colour of the house. Plum and Lime foliage accents were also used.
VICTORIAN TERRACE COTTAGE
This was a project that involved blitzing the garden before adding to the existing back garden and implementing a scheme for the front
It was decided that the colours of cottages brickwork would be enhanced by complimentary planting, hence this was an uncommon collection of warm reds, oranges with touches of lime to lighten the overall look. A confessed romantic, the client also wanted roses by the front door, so a selection of classic tea and hybrid tea roses in buff and peach colours were interplanted with lavender. A simple and classic combination.
Months later, it gave her great pleasure to tell us that her garden was the envy of the street and much admired..
PERGOLA'S & TRELLISING, PATIO'S, WATER FEATURES & POT GARDENS
One way to add interest or rapidly update your garden is to create seperate areas with decorative trellis panels, patios and features such as ponds or rock features.
Pots and planters are also great to add instant or seasonal colour to boost your property's kerb appeal. And design has moved along way from the traditional terracotta tub filled with generic summer bedding plants or dull hanging baskets!
Creating private entertaining areas is a great way to boost the appeal of your property if selling or renting and decorative fencing and screening is an inexpensive way to help renovate a delapidated garden.
We have designed and built many features for clients wishing to tackle a small area of their garden, or who have a limited budget. Why not contact us to see what we can do for you?
THE BLUE GARDEN
This Arundel garden needed to rediscover itself, the misshapen borders were lack lustre and tired, the lawn threadbare and there were peculiar rectangluar vegetable beds stuck in the middle of the lower lawn.
The whole rear garden was stripped with the exception of select mature trees and a design implemented that echoed the soft, feminine nature of its owner.
The result is a highly scented, floral garden in varying shades of purples and blues through into pinks and burgundys. The style takes its atmospheric inspiration from the romantic cottage style but is given a modern twist with its choice and position of the planting.
The brief also requested a evening seating area and so a curved specialist stone patio was laid to compilment the movement of the garden and the existing arbour painted a rich blue. Finally, a new lawn was laid and the gravel path re-routed to maximise the pleasure of walking through this floral oasis.
LANCING COLLEGE
Our garden maintenance rates start at just £15.75 per hour and £18 per hour* for blitz work and design installations. Why not contact us to find out more
