I specialise in creating beautiful, wildlife-friendly gardens, designed in collaboration with you and sensitively delivered by your contractor.
Whether you dream of an edible forest garden or a calm, leafy retreat thoughtful garden design can bring your vision to life.
My approach is personal and collaborative. By listening carefully to your needs, I aim create innovative solutions with positive impact on the environment. This includes sustainable elements such as rainwater management and material reuse. My award-winning Wildlife Rain Garden won the ‘Design for the Environment’ category at the Society of Garden Designer Awards 2025.
A well-designed garden can bring enjoyment for years to come while supporting biodiversity and building resilience to climate change. Together, we can create a garden that benefits both you and local wildlife.
Please do get in touch to discuss the possibilities for your garden.
My Process
Garden Design Advice
For gardens local to south Liverpool I offer advice sessions on wildlife garden design. During a single visit we develop a design for your garden enhanced with the potential for wildlife.
The day starts with us exploring your aspirations and analysing the garden currently. I also carry out a basic survey. Then we develop a design with tracing paper and pens; sometimes exploring ideas with bamboo and hose pipe in the garden. It’s a fun process and by being collaborative often ends up with a design that is unique to you.
After the meeting I would email you a plan of the design with details and suggestions on how to encourage wildlife with planting and wildlife habitats. You then take forward the changes by yourself or with your contractor.
Comprehensive Garden Design
I offer a personal, flexible service, working closely with you to listen and develop the most suitable competitive service packages. My services are based in Society of Garden and Landscape Designers JCLI Design Consultancy Agreement which includes:
- Meeting you to understand your aspirations and analysis your current garden
- Survey (depending on the scale and complexity this may be carried out by me or an independent surveyor)
- Sketch design showing the overall layout with examples of proposed features, materials and planting style.
- Outline design a masterplan showing the scheme with notes on materials, descriptions and measurements necessary to understand the design. Garden layout, features from ponds to pergolas, bed planting style (not the individual plants) and specimen trees are shown on this plan.
- Detailed design including planting – plans, specifications and plant schedules and technical details for complex soft elements and hard landscape details
- Selection of a contractor
- Project monitoring during construction including setting out and on-site supervision
- Garden aftercare & its management