Designing a garden in North Wales is a rewarding endeavour that allows you to create a space that reflects both your personal style and the natural beauty of the region. By understanding the local climate and soil, respecting the natural landscape, and incorporating sustainable practices, you can create a garden that thrives and delights throughout the year. Whether you are starting from scratch or enhancing an existing garden, the possibilities are as varied and beautiful as the Welsh landscape itself.

A garden design brief is a document that outlines the specific requirements and goals for a garden design project. It serves as a roadmap for the designer and helps ensure that the final design meets the client's expectations. Here are the steps to write a garden design brief:

1. Identify your objectives: Start by determining the key objectives for your garden. Consider factors such as functionality, aesthetics, maintenance, and any specific features or elements you want to include. For example, you may want a space for outdoor dining, a vegetable garden, or a focal water feature.

Initial Design Consultation. The most important outcome of this meeting is that you have a good opportunity to judge if I am going to be someone you want to work with.

I charge a nominal fee for an initial consultation, which takes a minimum of 2 hours. Occasionally I am asked why I charge this fee for new clients, if you too were wondering then please read on and hopefully you will understand the value of this initial meeting.

Getting to know you

The most important outcome of this meeting is that you have a good opportunity to judge if I am going to be someone you want to work with.

A garden design can take as little as 6 weeks from survey to completion, or for large projects could be staged over many years, so it is essential to choose someone who understands what you want and is able to deliver it for you.

Garden design and Planting design for a Grade II listed building, that just happens to be a windmill. Follow the journey, from initial visit to planting.

Ideal for new build gardens, where the soil is generally imported, parts can be free draining/very boggy /patches of ground that have a higher lime content from submerged debris left behind as part of the build process.

I wanted to show that a new build garden doesn’t have to be a lawn with 3 narrow tidy borders. They can be full and naturalistic and still be super simple to maintain.

If you are investing in your garden, then a recessed manhole cover is a complete no brainer. Why ruin a carefully thought out scheme for the sake of a small 'saving'? Saving is a word I question with clients. Yes, it may well appear to be slightly less expensive to leave the cover as it is and ask your landscaper to work around it. But, by not having the seamless finish seen in the first pic, really you are devaluing and uglifying (not a word, but you know what I mean) all the effort and money and time put into creating your dream outdoor space.

Calming fragrances such as lavender work very well near sun loungers or benches, places where you can recline and unwind.