Garden design Cheshire
Gardens designed around your life — and your soil.
A bespoke design and build service: site visit, 2D layout and planting plan, then a managed build from groundworks to the last plant.
What professional garden design actually involves
Good design isn't a pretty drawing — it's a plan that survives contact with your plot. We start with a full site visit: levels, aspect, drainage, access, and the way you actually want to live in the garden. Formal and structured, or relaxed and naturalistic — the design is shaped around you, your family and your property.
You'll receive a 2D layout drawing and a planting plan, and then — if you'd like us to build it — we manage the whole process: groundworks, hard landscaping, planting and aftercare, with one point of contact throughout.
Every design project delivers
- Full site visit and detailed consultation
- 2D layout drawing of the whole garden
- Planting plan matched to soil, aspect and maintenance appetite
- Materials palette — paving, walling, fencing, edging
- Itemised written quotation for the build
- Managed build with groundworks-first engineering
Local knowledge
Designed for Cheshire clay and North West rain
Cheshire gardens sit on heavy clay that waterlogs in winter and bakes hard in summer. Designs that ignore it fail — patios sink, lawns puddle, borders drown. Ours build in drainage strategy, correct sub-base depths and plants that thrive here, so the garden still looks designed in ten years, not just on handover day.
Frequently asked questions
Do you offer design-only, or design and build?
Both. Some clients want a professional design to build in stages or with their own contractor; most ask us to manage the full journey from concept drawings through groundworks, hard landscaping, planting and aftercare. We will recommend whichever genuinely suits your project.
What do I actually get from a garden design?
A full site visit and consultation, then a 2D layout drawing and planting plan tailored to your plot, your soil and how you want to use the space. It becomes the working document for the build, so there are no surprises about what goes where.
How do Cheshire clay soils affect garden design?
Heavily. Clay holds water in winter and cracks in summer, so drainage, sub-base depths and plant selection all have to be designed for it. We build falls, land drains and soil improvement into the design from day one rather than discovering problems mid-build.
How much should I budget for a designed garden?
It depends on size and scope: a redesigned patio and borders sits at a different level to a full multi-stage build with lighting and water features. Every quotation is written and itemised before work starts, so you can adjust scope with real numbers in front of you.
Discuss your garden design project.
Free, no-obligation site visits across Cheshire. A written quote, typically within 48 hours. No pressure, no hard sell — just honest advice.
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