The Complete Garden Design Service
DESIGN, PLANTS & PLANTING. Everything You need in One nursery.
DON’T DIG ANY DEEPER FOR A GARDEN DESIGNER
Gardens That Look Good All Year round
Everything In One Place at Our Nursery
Any Style or Combination of Plants and Planting
Design For Any Size of Garden
Our Own Expert Planting Team
We Are With You All the Way
HOW THE MAGIC WORKS
We Design, Supply & Plant
Everything you might need to create your new garden is here at our nursery. Our Designers are experts at creating gardens with distinctive sculptural ideas from a fusion of our extensive and stunning plant collection. Directing our planting team, they set to work skilfully and efficiently making sure your idyllic retreat takes shape rapidly – no delay.
You might want to create a tranquil retreat from all the bustle of Guildford, or a vibrant environment for entertaining, or a practical but equally enchanting garden for the family. Limited space might be a challenge and you’re looking for creative solutions. You might require the clever use of vertical drama (we’ll explain more), or espaliered screening to create privacy and define your boundaries. You might be looking to complement the style of adjoining gardens, or of course, you could be looking to stand out. You might have a large garden area, a complex layout or an estate garden.
Your time might be extremely valuable and you might require rapid results expertly managed, curated and planted with the minimal amount of fuss. This might be your first garden or you might be looking to fulfil a life time’s dream and immerse yourself in the adventure. We can tailor an approach that works for you.
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Inspiring. Unique. Convenient. Rapid.
Exceptional Garden Design, Plants and Planting
Many of the most captivating gardens in Guildford either reflect the town’s rich mixture of Modern, Georgian and Medieval influences, blending traditional garden aesthetics with contemporary design or are very personal and innovative spaces inspired by individual taste and garden situation.
With over 40,000 plants to choose from, our designers will help you create a unique scheme from our collection of topiary, screening, mature and juvenile trees, exotics, rarities, hedging, shrubs and border plants. There are no sourcing delays or hidden costs with us. You’ll discover a broad and inspiring selection which is suited to Guildford’s varying garden spaces as well as its climate and soil. We venture further to suggest you might even uncover alternatives you’ll have never considered before.
With a highly personal and collaborative approach, your designer will advise, guide and inspire you with their expert knowledge. They use a 3-Step process honed over the last 30 years to eliminate all the kerfuffle that can come with other design and planting methods. Tailored to meet your personal requirements and surpass your expectations (however impossible or daunting you think the task might be initially). The result will be an expertly curated and planted transformation full of the plants you love, in a garden design you can immerse yourself in and enjoy all year round.
OUR 3-STEP GARDEN DESIGN PROCESS
What will set your garden apart?
The variety and fusion of plants you can choose from. Their quality and provenance. Their shape and form. Their capability to transform any space. Our West Sussex nursery is at the heart of your journey and provides the inspiration. A visit here is a pivotal step in our design process. However, if you are unable to visit, our designers can help you explore your choices with video calls and photos. They’ll prompt you to think creatively – even audaciously: dramatic topiary, undulating & meandering blobberies, smart avenues, intricately planted screening, defined hedges, lush groves, and exciting, exotic, rare or jungly environments. If you love our plants then you will love your garden. Our expertise spans a diverse range of spaces, from small gardens and intimate courtyards to large gardens, complex layouts, city roof terraces and country estates; no project is too grand or modest. Whether you’re thinking of a formal setting or a more contemporary fusion, your garden will be both elegant and exciting.
What sets our process apart?
The convenience, continuity and efficiency of having everything you’ll need in one place. Over 30 years’ experience designing and planting exceptional gardens for our customers. Our own Design, Nursery, Planting & Creative Maintenance teams that get the job done. An enjoyable, exciting, collaborative and personal journey with the expertise to manage the whole process for you should you prefer. A momentum and swiftness steering away from conventional drawings, sourcing dilemmas and other frustrating factors that we know can inhibit your involvement and peace of mind. Here’s how we’ll transform your garden:
From our nursery to your garden in 3 steps
Before
1. Complete our Garden Design Enquiry Form or pop into our nursery to discuss your ideas with one of our team directly.
2. Jay, our Head of Garden Design, will then contact you to discuss your requirements in more detail and put you in touch with one of our designers.
3. They will visit you for a modest fee, based on their time (including travel).
4. A proposal follows, including a summary of your meeting, plant suggestions and the total cost of the plants, planting and irrigation (where applicable).
5. At this point we will invite you to the nursery to go through the design in greater detail and show you the actual plants that we will be using.
6. If you agree, a planting date is set, the plants are selected and you’re invoiced (just for the plants at this stage).
During
7. The designer and planting team will arrive on the specified day and the plants will be positioned – a bit like designing on the ground, instead of on a piece of paper.
8. Once you’re happy with the arrangement, the beds will be reshaped where necessary and the planting will begin.
9. Once planted, an irrigation system is installed (this is optional, but we always recommend it), new edges are cut, mulch is applied and everything is left looking lovely.
After
10. You’re invoiced for the planting, irrigation system, mulch, etc., and left in peace to enjoy your garden.
11. We remind you that it doesn’t necessarily end there: creative maintenance, plant advice and horticultural expansion are all right up our street.
Our designers are always keen to advise that you ask us to instal our irrigation system. They’re also very keen on designing with pathways, water features, pots, sculpture and creative structural edging for your beds and borders; all elements that we provide to enrich the time you’ll spend in your garden. However, we don’t provide hard landscaping but we have many years of experience working successfully in collaboration with external contactors employed by our customers who do this. Do talk with our design team about this should you require further explanation.