On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:18:18 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

Both my wife and I have no skills in the garden layout area. We had a
landscape company in to landscape the garden but are not happy with the
result.

How do we go about selecting a person/company to plan and implement a
layout for what is a problem garden?

I am ok when it comes to veg, no artistic talent required there, but an
aesthetic garden is something else again. We both like most of the
results of the "small town garden" program, but ours is neither small
nor town, so no help there.

Just in case someone has specific recommendations we live in North
Staffordshire

Well, I'm grounded for 6-8 weeks following a heart attack about 10
days ago so I'll have time on my hands before going back to work. I
could work something out for you at 50quid an hour (no site visits
though)
But seriously why don't you and your wife take the time to research
around the subject, find similar gardens to yours where the design
contains elements and ideas that you like. I promise you it will be
much more satisfying in the long term - above all it will be *your*
garden, it never really is if somebody else designs it. The other
thing is that if you've had a designer in you will still find aspects
of it that that don't work as you would wish, you'll feel they are set
in stone and will be very reluctant to change things. Designer gardens
always lack the degree of flexibility you need in a garden that you
and your family are going to live with.
Going to get my head down now to duck the flak from starving designers
;~}}
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