Design Process

It's Time to Start Designing

The following steps give you an indication of what is involved in the design process

1. Initial Consultation

In order to gain a good understanding of your vision for the garden, this is split into 2 parts:

 

An emailed questionnaire and a face to face meeting.

 

 

• Questionnaire

Emailed prior to the face to face. This will enable you to focus on what it is you really want from your garden, how you wish to use it, what currently works well, what you like and dislike and things you want prioritising in your design. It will help in supporting the overall process of creating a design that fits with your needs and aspirations.

 

 

• Face to Face Meeting

This is a visit to your home and an opportunity to meet, discuss your aspirations for your space and to see the garden.

To support this process I will bring a portfolio of design inspiration. This is a great way to clearly show what styles, colour palettes and other garden designs you like above others.

2. Design Proposal

This will be sent digitally and include:

  • Reiteration of the brief and how I’ll approach your design
  • Confirmation of the design process
  • Breakdown of costs
  • Terms & Conditions – including payment terms
  • Client acceptance form
3. Site Visit

Should you wish to proceed, a convenient date will be agreed where a site visit can be made.

 

This is an opportunity to thoroughly appraise the site and will include:

• Photographing the garden
• Measuring the garden and existing features that are to remain
• Understand the aspect, lighting and soil conditions of your garden


4. Site Survey

Following the site visit and measurements have been taken, a full site survey will be drawn digitally to scale.


This is an important part of the process as this is used to design your new layout.


Please note – depending on the size and complexity of levels, a full topographical survey may have to be carried out by an external surveyor. This will be advised at the initial consultation stage.

5. Client Brief

Using the information gathered from the site analysis, initial questionnaire and discussions, a brief will be developed and emailed to you.

 

The brief, which will also include a priority list, will be emailed for the clients review.

6. Design Concept

Once you are happy everything has been captured in the client brief, a concept design will be developed. This will include:

Mood boards – Digital and/or (A3) hard copy mood boards that capture the look and feel of the garden. A minimum of three to include:

• Overall Design
• Proposed Hard Landscaping
• Planting Colour Palette

More may be created, at this stage, to capture specific areas of the garden.

Concept plan – Digital and/or hard copy showing a proposed layout plan.

Visual – Digital and/or (A3) hard copy image of the garden or a specific element of the garden.

7. Master Layout Plan

This is the final agreed plan that your landscaper will work from to build the garden.

 

With more detail than the concept plan, it is a blueprint of your new garden drawn to scale – using measurements taken from the survey.

 

On here you will find specifics regarding materials to be used and where new elements of the garden will be sourced.

8. Additional Plans

I can also provide additional plans for:

 

 

  • Planting 
  • Lighting 

These are priced separately.

 

It is important that the lighting plan especially, should be discussed at the early onset of the design process so that this can be factored in at the design concept stage.