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The Design Process.
Information on garden design for landscaping
New for 2011
Grassroots Landscapes can always accommodate your individual needs and specification. If your budget won't stretch to a complete garden restoration project, we are on hand to undertake other services you may require.This year we have introduced a pruning, trimming, lawn care and garden clearance package. So why not give your garden a mini-makeover?
A Purple Patch
A rare Purple Emporer butterfly in a garden in Hampton, Middlesex, photographed by Nick Spencer
The design process can phased into four stages
• Initial brief and planning
• Planting plans, plant supply and planting up
• Completed garden plans
• Garden build
• Plant garden and maintain
Phase One: Initial briefing and planning
The first step in having your garden designed is to call and arrange an introductory meeting. By the end of Phase One we will have agreed a clear direction for your new garden, ready for detailed plans to be drawn.
• Introductory client meeting
• Design fee quotation agreed with client
• Design brief taken from client
• Garden survey and site analysis
• Initial concept plans prepared
• Concept plan agreed with client
Phase Two: Completed landscaping plans
The overall shape of your new garden has been agreed, now we can confirm this in detail with hard and soft landscaping plans.
• Final garden layout (hard landscaping) presented to client
• Design fee quotation agreed with client
• Planting brief taken from client
• Planting (soft landscaping) plans prepared
• Planting schemes presented to client>
Phase Three: Construction
To ensure a quality build, we can work with you to obtain competitive bids for your new garden and monitor construction work to project completion.
• Prepare technical drawings for contractor
• Write specifications for contractor bids
• Meet contractors on site for quoting process
• Assess quotations/present to client
• Project monitoring on site with contractor
Phase Four: Maintenance
Your garden is built (the hard landscaping) and now we can add the plants (the soft landscaping). We can also work with you to maintain your new garden.
• Source plants from nurseries
• Prepare soil and plant up garden
• Mulch plants if necessary
• Maintenance plan if required
• Maintenance service offered (if local).