Why use a professional garden designer?
A garden designer does not just draw pretty pictures and faff about with some plants. It’s a real profession! Would you build a house without an architect? No! Like architects, garden designers can survey your garden and design it with suitable materials and plants to get the best results for the right price. The only […]
Care Home Sensory Garden
Design Brief The brief was to provide a design for a sensory garden for a care home in Aberdeen. This needed to incorporate a circular path design to help residents navigate themselves easier around the garden with seating as rest stops. There was to be a central pergola as a vertical feature, raised beds for […]
Milltimber Garden
Design Brief The clients were looking for a large outdoor entertaining area which link their architecture designed new house to the back garden. The planting needed to provide year-round colour in a warm colour palette and be low maintenance. Planting was also designed for beds around the driveway in the front garden. This had a […]
Circle garden: Planting Design
Design Brief To create a planting plan for a new build garden which the clients had already designed and landscaped themselves. The design brief was for all year round colour and interest with textural plants in purple, pink and white. The client wanted some vertical height in the planting and also climbers to cover the […]
Aberdeen Planting Design: Orange and Purple
Design Brief To create a large curved border with mixed planting in an orange and purple theme in a large sheltered East facing walled town garden in Aberdeen. The planting has a New Zealand theme. Before The Design After
School Sensory Garden
Design brief: The aim of this project was to create a sensory garden for a primary school in Aberdeen City. This was for children with visual impairment and additional support needs. It needed to be a colourful, sensory space which was low maintenance. The design: The school garden was East facing so the plants needed […]
Aberdeen West End Front Garden
Design brief: The client’s property was in the heart of the West End of Aberdeen. The hard landscaping had already been designed and constructed in the front garden of the property. The brief was to create a planting plan. The design: The front garden was large with many mature plants already in place. A driveway […]
Stone Compass Front Garden
Design brief: The front garden is East facing. It had steps and path leading to the front door with symmetrical beds on either side of the path and at the front of the house. In the larger beds there were some mature shrubs which were retained and reused elsewhere in the garden. This garden is […]
Circular Side Garden
Design brief: A garden designed with circles in a triangular side garden in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. This designed included artificial lawn, a large patio area, a cherry tree, mixed shrubs, perennials and bulbs in the borders.
Wildlife Garden
Design brief: The client wanted a wildlife friendly family garden designed with a contemporary patio and pond to link in with the new house extension. There was a level change between the patio and the main garden so steps and a low retaining wall were built. Access paths were built from the front of the […]
