Our Fees and Your Budget

Costs explained

A great deal of research, consideration and knowledge goes into creating a successful garden design. The process begins with listening to your desires for your garden, and ends by turning them into reality. The process includes analysis of the site, surveying the garden, creating a concept plan and finalising it into a master plan. It also includes construction drawings, planting plans, and technical specifications needed for the tender process.

Our Fees

Our fees start at £80 for an initial 60 minute consultation. Fees for a planting design vary but start typically at £400 for a border.

For a full garden design, each stage is broken down into a separate fee, payable on the completion of each stage. The total fee is dependent on the size of your garden, but starts at £2,880. The fee will include the initial consultation where we take your brief and have a comprehensive discussion about the garden. Other elements that may be included in the fee are site analysis, a concept plan, a master plan, construction drawings, planting plans, and the drawing up of technical specifications needed to put the design out to tender.

Fees for a consultation, maintenance plan and plant list to transform your garden into a sustainable and wildlife-friendly garden are £400 for a medium-sized garden.

Your budget

A well-designed, mature garden extends your living space and becomes somewhere that is practical and useful that also brings delight to you and your family.

While budgets for the build of your garden often need to be quite large, your investment is usually offset by increasing the value of your property, as well as increasing the use and pleasure you get from having a professionally designed garden. However, if there were budgetary constraints, you might consider implementing a design in stages.

As a rough figure, a third of the budget is for labour, another third is for materials, and the final third is for plants. Below we’ve outlined some of the considerations when deciding your budget.

Building and material costs

Building a garden requires skilled landscapers, harnessing their knowledge and expertise to deliver a professionally constructed garden.

Materials, such as flagstones, stone sets, and timber structures can be expensive but have good longevity. However, there are always cost-effective alternatives, and some costs can be reduced by having fewer areas of hard landscaping, or through the innovative use of materials.

Plant costs

Plants vary enormously in cost depending on the pot size, the availability, and the type of plant.

Perennials (flowering plants) grow reasonably quickly and your garden will feel like it is starting to mature within a year. Perennials are planted at a density of between five and ten plants per square metre.

However, gardens need woody plants such as shrubs and trees for structure, and often mature specimens are appropriate. Woody plants tend to grow slowly which makes them more expensive. For example, a more mature tree that would provide your garden with instant height and impact, can cost from £300 to a few £1,000, depending on it’s maturity.