Advice and Inspiration - Garden Consultancy Service
Not everyone wants or needs a full design service with detailed drawings. My Advice & Inspiration service provides a cost-effective alternative.
Maybe you need advice or a fresh perspective on how to improve your existing garden or sort out a particular problem? It might be how to create more privacy or ideas on how to brighten up your planting or achieve a certain style. You might be unsure how to make the best of your balcony, roof terrace or garden.
I will visit you in your garden to share my design skills, gardening know-how and plant knowledge. After the visit, I will provide a write-up of our discussions so that you have a permanent record. Visits last one hour and I can usually provide your personal written notes within five working days.
For gardens within 15 miles of central Birmingham (B1 postcode) - I charge a fixed fee of £195. For gardens further afield I may ask for a supplement to cover the additional travel time.
Due to demand, I do ask for a £95 deposit to secure an appointment. This is transferable to an alternative date if you need to rearrange and is refundable if you need to cancel and provide a minimum 24 hours notice.
Recent projects have included:
Maybe you need advice or a fresh perspective on how to improve your existing garden or sort out a particular problem? It might be how to create more privacy or ideas on how to brighten up your planting or achieve a certain style. You might be unsure how to make the best of your balcony, roof terrace or garden.
I will visit you in your garden to share my design skills, gardening know-how and plant knowledge. After the visit, I will provide a write-up of our discussions so that you have a permanent record. Visits last one hour and I can usually provide your personal written notes within five working days.
For gardens within 15 miles of central Birmingham (B1 postcode) - I charge a fixed fee of £195. For gardens further afield I may ask for a supplement to cover the additional travel time.
Due to demand, I do ask for a £95 deposit to secure an appointment. This is transferable to an alternative date if you need to rearrange and is refundable if you need to cancel and provide a minimum 24 hours notice.
Recent projects have included:
- Advice on rejuvenating an overgrown garden, making it lower maintenance and plant suggestions to extend the seasonal interest
- Suggestions on how to cost-effectively tackle changing levels in a garden
- Advice on weed control and recommending groundcover planting to suppress weeds and provide year-round colour
- Suggestions on how to re-shape and re-size a seating area, making it more usable and adding a contemporary feel
- Suggestions on re-shaping existing borders to make a long, narrow garden feel wider and more connected to the house
- Advice on styling and planting to create a low-maintenance cottage garden
- Simple design sketches to re-style a mature garden
- Low-cost and easy-to-implement ideas to improve a garden
- Advice on how to adapt a garden to make it walking-frame and wheelchair accessible
- Advice on making a garden beautiful and wildlife friendly