Garden Design Process
We believe garden design can lift and change a client’s daily experiences. Our work is focused on realising this vision by gaining an in-depth understanding of the space, client, and environment. Our honed design process ensures a creative solution that engages the senses, captures the eye, and explores innovative spatial experiences. Read more below to discover more about our unique design service.
Design Consultation
Garden Design
Project Management
Design Consultation
During the initial consultation the client and designer explore the ambitions and goals of the project. We will discuss your preferences and aversions in hand with uncovering exciting and unique creative possibilities. This dialogue will help us formulate a design and site-specific brief tailored to you.
A comprehensive assessment of the garden will ensure that our landscape designers can fashion a garden design brief that is optimally suited to both the client and the site. Accurate site data needs to be collected to ensure a smooth construction phase, saving both time and money. Site information such as site levels, boundary measurements, existing drainage, views, aspect, and important features that will impact on the design will need to be recorded accurately and inform the fee proposal. The in-depth fee proposal will give you, the client, a crystal clear view of the finished product and the process of getting there.
Design Consultation
During the initial consultation the client and designer explore the ambitions and goals of the project. We will discuss your preferences and aversions in hand with uncovering exciting and unique creative possibilities. This dialogue will help us formulate a design and site-specific brief tailored to you.
A comprehensive assessment of the garden will ensure that our landscape designers can fashion a garden design brief that is optimally suited to both the client and the site. Accurate site data needs to be collected to ensure a smooth construction phase, saving both time and money. Site information such as site levels, boundaries, drainage, views, and aspect will need to be recorded accurately and inform the fee proposal. The fee proposal will give you, the client, a crystal clear view of the finished product and the process of getting there.
Garden Design
The design process is a complex interaction of intellect, intuition, reason, passion, experience, creativity, and play. Our design solutions are always in response to a unique requirement and are never the same. Armed with a deep understanding of the clients requirements our designers, aided by the knowledge of our in house horticulturalists, and landscapers, devise fully integrated design solutions. Reaching beyond the brief to deliver shared aspirations.
We start with experimental sketches and concepts, then gradually refine and distill these down into a cohesive vision, the garden master plan. The master plan is presented with accompanying mood boards, materials, and samples. On reviewing the plans with the client we can make alterations or additions. Once both client is happy with the master plan we will move onto the detailing of the garden and begin to draw up detailed planting plans.
Planting plans are an incredibly important part of any garden design whether in isolation or as part of a whole project. Our designers will spend a lot of time assessing the aspect and soil conditions in different parts of the site to ensure that the plants are selected not only to look fantastic but also to thrive in the right conditions.
Lighting plans are another important garden design feature and enble the garden to really come to life during the darker hours. The aim with garden lighting is to subtly illuminate your garden accentuating certain features of your garden and developing an entirely new atmosphere than that experienced during the daylight hours.
In addition to the garden master plan, we offer technical construction details for complex or bespoke elements that have been included in the garden design. These aid the build process and ensure that the technical elements of the project are constructed accurately, as per plan and to the high specification desired.
Garden Design
The design process is a complex interaction of intellect, intuition, reason, passion, experience, creativity, and play. Our design solutions are always in response to a unique requirement and are never the same. Armed with a deep understanding of the clients requirements our designers, aided by the knowledge of our in house horticulturalists, and landscapers, devise fully integrated design solutions. Reaching beyond the brief to deliver shared aspirations.
We start with experimental sketches and concepts, then gradually refine and distill these down into a cohesive vision, the garden master plan. The master plan is presented with accompanying mood boards, materials, and samples. On reviewing the plans with the client we make any alterations or additions that may be required.
Planting plans are an incredibly important part of any garden design whether in isolation or as part of a whole project. Our designers will spend a lot of time assessing the aspect and soil conditions in different parts of the site to ensure that the plants are selected not only to look fantastic but also to thrive in the right conditions.
Project Management, Hard & Soft Landscaping
Graduate Landscapes has a unique and advantageous in-house approach, encompassing award winning garden designers, professionally certified craftsman, and seasoned horticulturalists. Our experienced project management liaises with the client throughout the design and construction process. The project management has direct oversight, communication, and control over the other services involved, because of the simple fact that all our services are in-house. With the project manager working on behalf of the client, our clients can relax in the comfort that they have an arterial like link to the pulse of the project.
Our in-house approach affords our designers the rare opportunity to work closely, and on a daily basis, with the teams dedicated to implementing the clients’ designs. Working symbiotically with the project manager, construction, and horticultural teams during the design process allows for unrivalled creativity. Allied with the security that resulting designs are not undone by implementation or budget issues.
Project Management, Hard & Soft Landscaping
Graduate Landscapes’s unique, advantageous in-house approach, encompasses award winning garden designers, professionally certified craftsman, and seasoned horticulturalists. Our experienced project management liaises with the client throughout the design and construction process. The project management has direct oversight, communication, and control over the other in-house services involved. With the project manager working on behalf of the client, our clients can relax in the comfort that they have an arterial like link to the pulse of the project.
Our in-house approach affords our designers the rare opportunity to work closely, and on a daily basis, with the teams dedicated to implementing the clients’ designs. Working symbiotically with the project manager, construction, and horticultural teams during the design process allows for unrivalled creativity. Allied with the security that resulting designs are not undone by implementation or budget issues.