Residential
"These gardens represent the 'average' type of garden and potentially can present the most challenges. Quite often these designs are carried out in tandem with significant house renovations or a new extension. The brief is generally expansive and the space available can be limited. But despite these restrictions the end product is almost always stunning and unique."
"Work online saves on fees and delivers fast"
The amount of readily available and useful information now available to me as a Landscape Architect online or within client planning applications is immense. I am able to reflect this in my discounted fee structure for projects that can be completed entirely by remote means. Projects are delivered faster than if a site visit has to be organised and the reduction in travelling is helping to reduce my carbon footprint. Help me to help you by working remotely.
"Every project is entirely unique and presents its own set of challenges, but underlying all schemes are a framework of core design principles that form the basis of my work."
"One of the biggest challenges of this type of garden is the limitations of space vs. the client wish list. How do we fit everything in without compromising the sense of space? Sometimes it is my role to look critically at the elements required, rationalise the scope and present a scheme that incorporates a more select palette."
"My background research and extensive online mood boards can be a useful place for prospective and existing clients to review the latest design trends and material ideas, plant combinations and features."
"These gardens rely on the development of a comprehensive design brief with the client. I always make sure to spend a good deal of time discussing the purpose of the space and any design influences that will inform the underlying styling."
"I will review all available project documentation, including topographic surveys and photographs in order to prepare an existing 'as built' model from which to evolve the new design. Once this preliminary work has been completed the fun starts and I will begin developing a schematic design (or more than one) for the plot."
"At this conceptual stage I will normally schedule a remote meeting to review the ideas and gauge initial feedback, from which further comment will be collated as the designs are digested."
"Re-imagining the spaces around the buildings we inhabit, from seedling idea to delivery on the ground"
