Stage 2 - Professional Garden Design Survey

The professional garden design survey takes place after the initial garden consultation where we discussed how you envisage your new garden. The professional garden design survey allows me to take the information from the previous consultation and work on the details.

First, I will need to measure up the site so that I have an accurate and detailed record of the dimensions of your garden. Professional garden designers work in a similar way to architects, drawing up plans to scale and as precisely as possible. In most gardens I will carry out the survey myself. However, if the site is large or complex I will recommend the use of a chartered land surveyor.

Measuring your garden helps to ensure that all aspects of the design will look exactly as they should when the design I create is made real. I will also take a detailed inventory of all the items that are already in your garden, noting what features you would like to remain and be incorporated into the new design.

At this point a further consultation will take place. It is extremely important that you feel free to communicate openly with me during the whole process. My aim is to design a garden that you will be absolutely delighted with, so please do enter into the process as fully as you can as this will assist me in creating a design that suits you perfectly. Any elaborations that you care to make can be accommodated at this stage.

Stage 3 - Garden Concept Plan

With the information gathered and agreed on during the consultation and garden survey stage, the next step of the garden design process is for me to draw up an outline design. This is a basic design, which incorporates the main elements we have identified as being important, and provides us both with a good idea of how your professional garden design will fit the garden space.

Once again, we discuss the concept plan as fully as necessary to ensure that you are completely happy with the direction we have adopted, and we then proceed to the fourth stage of the garden design process.

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