Services

Services for every season

Design, build and care from one small team, in and around Hemel Hempstead.

The walled garden in spring, with a curved lawn between deep borders and a timber garden room at the far end.

Garden design

Every garden starts with a visit. Mei Lin walks it with you, notes the light, the soil and the views, and asks how you want to use it through the year.

You get a full plan: layout, materials and a planting scheme that has something to give in every season, not only in June.

From £650 for a full plan

A finished sandstone terrace with a low curved retaining wall, steps up to a lawn and new borders behind a brick house.

Patios, paths and walls

Terraces, paths, steps and low walls in stone, brick and gravel, built on proper foundations with drainage worked out before anything is laid.

We match materials to the house and the garden, so the hard landscaping looks settled from the first year.

Quoted after a visit

Gloved hands pressing tulip bulbs into freshly forked soil in an autumn border.

Planting

Borders planned in layers: structure for winter, bulbs for spring, a full summer and good seed heads in autumn.

We prepare the soil, plant at the right time of year and leave you with a short note on what each part of the border needs.

Borders from £45 per m²

The garden in summer, with a deep green curved lawn between full borders.

Lawns and turf

New lawns from turf, reshaped curves and crisp edges, and tired lawns brought back with scarifying, feeding and overseeding.

A good lawn ties the borders together, so we shape it as part of the design rather than as whatever is left over.

From £18 per m²

Tulip bulbs being planted by hand in dark soil, a job from the autumn care visit.

Seasonal care

Four visits a year from the same small team: spring feeding and mulching, summer deadheading and trims, autumn bulbs and cutting back, winter pruning and planning.

We know the garden, so each visit picks up where the last one left off.

Four visits a year from £420

The garden in winter, with clipped evergreen box balls and a bare multi-stem tree in frost.

Hedges and pruning

Formal hedges cut to clean lines, and trees and shrubs pruned at the right time for their shape, flowers and health.

Good winter structure is what makes a garden look designed in every month, so we treat pruning as design work.

From £120 a visit

How a garden happens

Four steps, one team

  1. Visit

    Mei Lin walks the garden with you and listens to what you want from it.

  2. Design

    A full plan for layout, materials and planting across the whole year.

  3. Build

    Our own team builds the hard landscaping and plants the borders.

  4. Care

    Seasonal visits keep the garden growing the way it was designed.

A garden for every season

Book a design visit and Mei Lin will come and walk the garden with you.