Garden Design & Landscaping
Garden Designer in Essex
The Garden Lab
Unlocking Your Garden's Potential Together
Designing and creating beautiful lasting gardens is a journey that starts with an idea and ends with a space that you will love and use for many years to come. From the first phone call or email to the last handshake on the final day of your project, we aim at offering an experience that is both personal and professional, with a friendly team ready to help all throughout the process.
Whether you already know what you want or you rely entirely on our Garden Designer's ideas to transform your outdoor space, we see each project as a unique opportunity to bring the best out of all the gardens we design. Taking all aspects into consideration, personal requirements, external factors such as the orientation of the garden, practical dimension and allocated budget, we pride ourselves on designing stunning gardens that are fully aligned with your needs and use of the space.
FIRST CONSULTATION
Our first consultation is both free of charge and a very important stage. We arrange for our Garden Designer to come see your garden and discuss your potential project. This is the occasion for us to discover your garden, take the basic measurements, explore ideas, consider styles, colours and talk over important requirements and functional aspects. This allows us to get a good first feel of what you want to achieve with the space and what can be done within your budget.
PROPOSAL BRIEF
Following your first meeting with our Designer, we will provide you with a proposal brief which outlines what has been discussed during the consultation but, more importantly, what could be done. The proposal includes a mood board covering ideas, possible materials that could be used, planting styles, special features such as lighting and/or water features. It also includes our proposed fees to undertake the design and next stages of the process to move forward.
SITE SURVEY & ANALYSIS
Upon acceptance of the design fees, we arrange another visit for a site analysis of your garden. This is when we take finer accurate measurements of your garden and study elements such as position of the sunlight, heights, quality of the soil, any existing restrictions in terms of view, trees or anything that is related to the garden and the house that needs to be taken into consideration in the design. This can be done by our Designer alone or, in some instance, they can be joined by our Head Landscaper if required.
CONCEPT DESIGN
Step 4 is usually very exciting and awaited with anticipation by our clients. A sort of "big reveal", this is time for our Garden Designer to provide you with the initial concept design. Realised using 2D or 3D for an extra fee, this is an overview of what we have in mind for your new garden. As a first draft, this is subject to discussion and can be amended and/or refined until you are fully happy with it. The concept design can also include further photos of materials, planting, garden features for better visualisation.
DETAILED DESIGN/FINAL DRAWINGS
Once the concept design has been agreed, we then reach the last step of the Garden Design process as such. We will now produce constructional drawings with all practical measurements ready for the construction phase. During this last phase, our Garden Designer and Head Landscaper work in close collaboration to provide you with a quote for your project that is in line with all materials discussed and also matches your budget. Once the quote has been agreed, the actual landscaping will be ready to start.
