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What Garden Landscape Designer Accreditations Should I Look For

Before deciding on a landscape company for your grand build and makeover, it’s important to check companies’ accreditations and understand what these really mean for you. Accreditations provide protection for both parties and although it’s easy to become baffled at first glance by various ISOs and knowing your BALI, from a CHAS, from a SSIP, they hold fundamental significance and determine the quality of workmanship you receive.

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Traditional Country Estate Garden Design – 8 Key Elements

The beauty and grandeur of country estates entice and enthrall. The estate gardens of these sumptuous dwellings have an array of magnificent traditional design elements. These garden design elements work in unison with the stunning country estate architecture. Whilst not exhaustive, we have compiled a list of 8 key traditional country estate garden design elements for you to explore.

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Top 5 reasons for Choosing a Landscape Designer

When planning a garden design project, a landscape designer can create a bespoke, creative, unique garden design that blends harmoniously into the surrounding landscape and architecture.

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Landscaping Coronavirus – working safely during the pandemic

During the coronavirus pandemic as lockdown slowly eases, Graduate Landscapes have evolved our working practices keep our customers, staff and members of the public safe. We are following best practice guidelines, and being ISO and Bali registered ensures high standards. In this article we wanted to share with you our extensive working procedures.

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The Value of Garden Spaces During and Beyond Coronavirus

“During these times the beneficial effects of gardens and green spaces have never been more apparent…this link between gardens and our health has never been more relevant – especially as we endure the challenges of the confined circumstances in which we currently find ourselves.” Prince Charles

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Summer Gardening Tips

Summer is well and truly underway, and it is one of the busiest and most rewarding times of the year when it comes to our gardens.

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Sustainable Garden Design

Creating a sustainable garden can help increase biodiversity, provide an eco friendly solution to flora and fauna whilst maintaining a visually stunning wow factor.

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Top 10 Garden design elements – Part 2

Planting is the crowning touch of a garden. There are many ways you can achieve the perfect garden design, height and structure is foremost. Start planting with tall, large trees reducing down to smaller shrubs, perennials then bedding plants, this creates unity and composition.

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Key garden Design Elements – part 1

Garden design is fundamental introducing form, structure, elegance and aesthetic appeal. Design elements allow the garden to flow and work together in harmony. This is the first of two blogs taking a look at 10 key garden design elements.

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Easy to grow vegetables!

Whether you’re wanting to become more self-sufficient or just wanting to try your hand at something new we are sharing our top tips to make the most of the space you have!

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