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Fernhollow · since 2011

We build the garden you just scrolled through. Usually in about eleven weeks, sometimes with better weather, always with the same people from the first peg to the last light.

What we make

Five things, done properly

  1. 01Design & surveyLevels, soil, light and a scaled plan you can build from.
  2. 02Hard landscapingSandstone, brick and oak, laid on foundations that last.
  3. 03PlantingBorders planned for every month, not just the photo.
  4. 04Water featuresRills, still pools and the plumbing nobody sees.
  5. 05Lighting & eveningsPergolas, fire and low light for the hours after work.

One garden, frame by frame

Eleven weeks in five frames

Bare, churned clay plot at dawn with string lines marking curves
Week 0 Survey and set-out. The lines on the ground are the drawing.
New sandstone path being laid with oak sleeper beds either side
Week 3 Groundworks: the path, beds and drainage go in first.
Freshly planted borders of grasses, salvia and alliums
Week 7 Planting, in season, from our own nursery list.
A stone rill running beside the path into a still reflecting pool
Week 9 Water: a rill and a still pool that mirrors the oak.
The finished garden at blue hour with festoon lights on an oak pergola and a fire bowl
Week 11 Handover at dusk, with the lights on.
214gardens built in Hertfordshire
11weeks for a typical full build
5year structural guarantee

Start here

Book a garden walk.

An hour in your garden with one of our designers. No charge within 15 miles of Hemel Hempstead, and you keep the sketch.

01632 960437 · studio@fernhollow.example