At our initial meeting, I will come to your garden to discuss your ideas and what you are hoping to achieve. Following this first meeting, which will be free of charge, I will provide an estimate of my costs and confirm the scope of work to be carried out.

Once we have agreed on the brief, I will return to carry out a site survey, taking measurements and notes to enable me to draw up a site plan. Larger plots may require a professional survey.

The design process will begin with the sketching out of different layout ideas, before producing a concept plan for you so that revisions and refinements can easily be made prior to the production of technical drawings.

I will produce scale technical drawings at A3 size, which may include a master plan and planting plan(s) depending on the brief. At this stage I will also produce mood boards to illustrate hard landscaping, outdoor accessories and plants, along with a planting specification to form the basis of a plant order.

For projects involving landscaping work, I can assist with the tendering process for contractors, using my contacts with local landscaping firms.

The chosen contractors will carry out any groundworks, hard landscaping and soil improvement using the plans I have supplied. The last stage is for me to order plants from a local or specialist trade nursery and arrange for delivery to site, after which I will normally carry out the planting myself.