Landscape Designs

Typical to-scale blueprint design from English Country Gardens

With all the pertinent information gathered from your estimates/planning session, your designer will begin taking measurements, grade notations, and photographs of your site to transfer to a design layout.

On completing the design, which usually takes 1-2 weeks, your designer will contact you to set up an appointment at your home or our Garden Centre. 

The design, a to-scale blueprint drawing, will show the exact location, number, and varieties of trees, shrubs, and perennials. Your design will specify all construction elements , which your designer can explain in detail. At your home, your designer will also have photos of the actual plants to help you begin to 'picture' your garden.  If you choose to have your design presented at the Garden Centre, your designer can actually show you the plants and materials to be used in your garden. For instance, if your plan includes a colonial stone wall with flagstone cap, we will show you photos of similar walls and give you the addresses and contact information of local clients who have had similar projects installed.

You'll find a detailed planting and/or construction installation estimate in your package.  At this point, your designer will ask you a few questions. Can you afford to have it done all at once?  If not, which part of the design is your priority?  Do you want the patio put in before the screening?  Can we create and plant the beds before we build the retaining wall?  Our job is to not only give you advice about the order in which the work should be done, but also to work within your budget. It's best for both of us if we don't have to "redo" work over time--more economical for you and time-saving for us.

If you like what you see and decide to continue, we then move into the installation & construction phase of your project.