Garden review

Garden reviews are an excellent way to explore possibilities and consider how to make the most of your space. The focus is entirely on your priorities, and clients often comment that they see their gardens in a different light after a garden review!

This service offers an opportunity to:

  • Access a garden designer’s skills and knowledge
  • Explore ideas about planting and hard landscaping
  • Get a new perspective and fresh inspiration
  • Do you have an established garden that needs a fresh approach? Perhaps you need advice about layout, materials, planting, or how to adapt the garden to changing needs or environmental conditions? 

    What this review includes: 

    • Design: style, aesthetics and how your garden can work for you
    • Construction and hard landscaping
    • Plants:  a general assessment of what you have, and how to develop your planting

    How it works

    • Send me images of the garden, and an idea of what you’d like to get out of the review.
    • The review will include a 1 hour viewing of your outdoor space. We’ll discuss your ideas, and possibilities to consider.
    • I will follow up with an emailed summary of my recommendations, including suggestions for planting and hard landscaping.

    Depending on the nature of the garden and the projects under consideration, the emailed summary with advice on how to proceed could be all that you require –  or it could lead to any of a wide range of solutions for developing the garden using my knowledge of plants, construction materials and design techniques, and my links with contractors and suppliers. While the summary won’t include drawings or planting plans, these can be developed as part of the more in-depth design packages offered.

    Also available as a gift voucher, these sessions also make a thoughtful present for anyone in need of some advice or inspiration for their outdoor space.

    The Garden Review fee is £200 (payable in advance of the consultation) within a 5km radius of my studio in SE27, south London. If you live further away, get in touch and we’ll work something out.

    Terka came around for a detailed design consultation and I’m so glad she did! She really listened to my vision for our garden and, using her vast knowledge of different plants and design expertise, came up with some amazing creative ideas for the space. Incorporating what was already there, she advised on which plants would complement and enhance each raised bed and sent a detailed and prompt e-mail which fuelled my inspiration and encouraged me to get to work straight away! Thanks so much!

    Christine Goodrich, Streatham

    Such a comprehensive and detailed amount of ideas and advice, thank you so much! I feel there is so much inspiration for me to use and draw on – I’ve read your email about 20 times, looked at all the links and bookmarked ideas. I can’t tell you how helpful and inspiring it is to have someone else’s ideas on board!

    M.G., West Norwood