Garden planning and execution
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 -- Please only reply to Newsgroup as emails to this address are deleted on arrival. |
Garden planning and execution
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 ;~}} Weed my address to reply http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html |
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