Designing the perfect garden
2 December 2024
Designing the perfect garden starts with the client. Taking reference from the house and it’s surroundings is the best place to start when considering a new design proposal.
We start with a conversation about what our clients are wanting to achieve for their outside space. Creating a client brief where we highlight our aims and objectives allows us all to be on the same page when it comes to designing a garden for a private home.
Analyzing the space creates context and helps us to move forward with a design proposal.
Planning out how your garden could look will follow points raised in the client brief. This way we know that the style and feel of the new garden will accurately reflect our clients hopes and needs for moving forward and making the most of the space available.
Our design questionnaire covers points such as:
- What level of gardening are you comfortable with?
- What style of garden most appeals to you?
- What are the main purposes of asking us to create a design proposal?
- Are there any specific items you’d like us to include when thinking about a new area of your garden?
- Planting. Are there any existing plants you’d like to keep or remove. Do you have any favorites, or any you particularly don’t appreciate? any you know you are allergic too?
- Do you now your soil type, or have any pets we need to design around?
- Do you have a specific budget you feel comfortable with?
- Are there any specific issues such as bad drainage, shade, sloped areas, privacy concerns?
- Any specific planning issues we need to be aware of, such as tree preservation orders or conservation areas?
Designing the perfect garden then moves forward with a design proposal that encompass all these points so that it’s relevant and in context with what we are trying to achieve.
As designers and builders of gardens, we are creatives, we naturally fall into creating spaces that not only reflect what we are trying to achieve for any specific client, but we naturally design areas that flow, and create a sense of rhythm, whether this is in a natural sense or whether it’s a super modern space that reflects a contemporary building, flow and a connection to the space is key for creating a successful design proposal.
Choosing the right materials and plants that also suit the design and layout are paramount. Lighting also plays an important role here, as does any integrated services to help future proof the space.
Thought through professionally, this results in a very successful design proposal that provides our clients with a fully formed vision of how to best to develop their garden areas. https://www.astekyork.co.uk/garden-design/landscape-design-york/
Building your garden… Now that’s for another blog!
