If you employ one of London’s finest garden designers you will need to be prepared to pay a fair price for the service. In return, however, you will receive a design, and almost certainly the implementation of that design, which is of top world class quality. The top London garden designers have created a unique style of city garden design, drawing strongly on themes from architecture and sculpture and from gardening traditions from all over the world. As you know London is a city that stands alone in its unique fields of architecture, music, culture, interior design and this all reflects in the world leading quality of garden design too.
London is a cosmopolitan city and the top city gardens reflect this. There are city gardens whose themes reflect the Japanese tradition, the Islamic tradition, the Mediterranean tradition; there are gardens whose themes are based on Buddhist meditation and on modern minimalist philosophical ideas. There are gardens adapted to penthouse suites and gardens adapted to courtyards and mews.
This is above all what you may expect from a top city garden designer, that the garden will have a strong central theme and that this is intended to be maintained hroughout the garden’s existence.
On the practical side, you may also expect that the designer will have chosen that theme after prolonged study of the site, its aspect and exposure to both wind and sun, its soil if it has any, its drainage, the ease with which materials may be brought in, the general surroundings and potential neighbour problems, and the future maintenance of the garden.
As well as these practical aspects the designer will have a deep knowledge of plants and of the architectural use of plants. They will be skilled in using the features of the building and of walls, terraces or balconies to enhance the design of the garden. They will have a strong awareness of how the sunlight will catch a particular area at a particular season and of how to make the most of this.
In addition to all these creative and practical abilities, a top designer is likely to have a gift for interpreting what the owner actually wants from the garden and to turn those, often rather vague, impractical ideas into a top London garden that will be the owner’s pride and joy. And of course all of this can be achieved with minimal stress and interruption to your life and of course it can maintained and cared for with very little work if that is what you desire.
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