How can English Gardens help you

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Every garden design begins with understanding how you want to use your outdoor space.

The process starts with an initial consultation, where we discuss your garden, your ideas, and how the space needs to work for you. 

From there, I create a bespoke garden design plan tailored to your home, lifestyle, and budget.

To ensure the design truly reflects your taste, we collaborate using a shared Pinterest board, allowing you to collect inspiration, explore styles, and share ideas throughout the process. 

This collaborative approach helps ensure the final design feels considered, personal, and exactly right for you.

Garden design services include:

• Whole garden redesigns for existing properties
   
• New-build garden design, creating structure, interest, and planting from an empty plot
   
• Planting design and partial garden redesigns, such as borders or specific areas within an established garden
   

Each design balances layout, materials, and planting to create a garden that looks good throughout the seasons and works well long term.

New-build gardens often start as blank, compact spaces with little structure or planting. I specialise in new-build garden design in Oxfordshire, helping homeowners turn an empty plot into a usable and attractive garden.

Designs focus on:

• Creating structure and flow
   
• Defining seating, planting, and practical areas
   
• Introducing planting that matures well over time
   
• Keeping maintenance realistic for modern lifestyles
   

The result is a garden that feels established, intentional, and connected to the home.

Planting plays a key role in how a garden looks and feels. I offer planting design services for both new and existing gardens, whether as part of a full redesign or as a standalone service.

Planting schemes are designed to:

• Provide year-round interest
• Suit the conditions of your garden
• Enhance privacy and soften boundaries
• Be appropriate for the level of maintenance you want

This service is ideal if your garden layout works well but the planting needs refreshing or rethinking.

Not every project needs a full redesign. I also work with homeowners to improve small or underused areas of the garden, such as awkward corners, borders, or spaces viewed from inside the house.

These targeted redesigns can make a significant difference, adding structure, interest, and purpose to areas that previously felt overlooked.

Whether your garden is large or small, new or established, my approach is always collaborative and considered. I work closely with you throughout the design process to ensure the finished garden suits your home, your needs, and how you want to use the space.

Alongside garden design, I offer a range of garden maintenance services for Oxfordshire homeowners, helping keep gardens healthy, well cared for, and looking their best throughout the year.

Maintenance services can support newly designed gardens as they establish, as well as existing gardens that need regular care or an occasional refresh. 

Services include:

• Lawn care, including seasonal treatments and general upkeep
   
• Tree and shrub pruning to maintain shape, health, and structure
   
• Planting, whether adding new plants or replacing tired areas
   
• Hedge maintenance to keep boundaries neat and manageable
   
• Border care, including weeding, mulching, and plant care
   

Maintenance can be arranged as regular visits to provide ongoing care, or as one-off tidy-up sessions, ideal for seasonal clearances or preparing a garden for a particular time of year.

Regular maintenance is particularly valuable for designed gardens, ensuring that the layout, planting schemes, and features continue to look their best as they mature and evolve over time.

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I offer regular visits or one-off tidy-up sessions.

If you’d like to include a water feature in your garden, I work closely with Jason and the team at August Ponds to bring your vision to life. 

Whether it’s a tranquil pond, flowing fountain, or ornamental feature, we ensure it is fully integrated into the overall garden design.

As part of this collaboration, I carefully plan the planting and surrounding layout so the water feature complements the garden’s style, structure, and function. 

The result is a harmonious, balanced outdoor space where planting, hardscape, and water work together to create a garden that’s beautiful, practical, and uniquely yours.