Advice and Inspiration
Not everyone wants or needs a full design service with detailed masterplan and construction 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 small city garden.
I can provide a mini-design service, charged at an hourly rate, to help you find a solution. This can include a visit or if you prefer we can discuss your requirements by phone and email.
For a fixed fee of £95, I will visit your garden to share my design skills and plant knowledge and afterwards 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 with three working days.
If you would like me to do some further work and research to develop the ideas we discuss, my standard day rate is £295 and we can agree the level of time needed to suit your specific requirements. A&I projects are usually 1- 2 days and the £95 visit fee will be discounted against the total cost.
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 small city garden.
I can provide a mini-design service, charged at an hourly rate, to help you find a solution. This can include a visit or if you prefer we can discuss your requirements by phone and email.
For a fixed fee of £95, I will visit your garden to share my design skills and plant knowledge and afterwards 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 with three working days.
If you would like me to do some further work and research to develop the ideas we discuss, my standard day rate is £295 and we can agree the level of time needed to suit your specific requirements. A&I projects are usually 1- 2 days and the £95 visit fee will be discounted against the total cost.
Recent projects have included:
- Simple design to replace a lawn with walk-through flower borders
- Advice on rejuvenating an overgrown garden, making it lower maintenance and extending the seasonal interest
- Advice on weed control and recommending a range of groundcover to help suppress weeds and provide year-round colour
- Re-designing a seating area
- Re-shaping existing borders to make a long, narrow garden feel wider and more connected to the house and patio
- Advice on styling and planting to create a low-maintenance cottage garden
- Design sketches to re-style a mature garden