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Christine Barve Garden Design

Advice and Inspiration

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.


For a fixed fee of £150, I will visit your garden to share my design skills and plant knowledge and afterwards 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.


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 a range of groundcover planting to help 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 how to re-shape 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
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 Telephone  07976 243 250                                                                                                                    Christine@barvegardendesign.co.uk