Garden Design Service

Anything from a small border to a full garden. We will help you to achieve your dream by listening to your requirements for your garden or border design.

First, we will identify your "shopping list" of ingredients to be included in your design e.g. size and style of the patio, the main focal point, what style of planting be it a small "White border" in the classic Hidcote style or are you trying to recreate that Mediterranean feel in your garden or perhaps you are after that classic cottage garden feel? Whatever style or ideas you have in mind for your garden they will help you achieve it.

The next step will be to produce a basic design of the main structures, border shapes and their positions, patio / decks and any major features. If you are then happy with that stage of the design we will then do the detailed planting plan, placing each individual shrub, tree and herbaceous plant in their border positions. This will enable you to appreciate the design in detail.

You can then execute the design yourself, or get someone to do it for you. Depending on the size of the project, James Garden Care will be able to carry out the work for you or supervise contractors or a landscaper.

The following is an example of a garden design created for a client after they had installed a small conservatory. Their brief was to extend the existing square patio into a more interesting and usable shape, they also had an existing pergola which they wanted to retain but which had no path leading to it and was just fronted by the classic "rectangular" lawn. The client also wanted to retain specific shrubs, which are named on the design. The chosen solution was to create two curved lawns that created more flowing border lines and a sweeping path way which made more of a focal point to the pergola. You will note that the other shrubs have numbers adjacent to them. This relates to their listing on the clients planting key, which lists their full botanical names.