Your garden, your thoughts, its personal - Its all about you

Designing and creating a garden area is not all about somebody coming in and telling you what you should or shouldn’t have. The garden needs to be a transition between you and the designer to focus on what you are looking for, your thoughts and ideas, and for the designer to use their experience to evaluate and advise on best way forward.

Changing any space either indoors or out can be a daunting experience, let me alleviate the overwhelm you feel when it comes to acting on those changes and so integrate your home, lifestyle and your garden. One point of contact, communication and peace of mind, simple really.

Design Reasons - 1

Throughout history many self taught gardeners were unable to create there own distinct style, something new, so copying others with a slight variation became quite common, but gardens should have an idea or a purpose behind them, a sense of belonging.

Lancelot ‘Capability ‘Brown had imagination, he wanted to create a ‘place ‘ with a distinct flavour of its own, space, planting open areas of earth and water, a bringing together of elements that make it special. This came at a perfect time in history, people with money and wealth wanted to show it off, Capability Brown allowed them to do that with vast parkland estates that meant you could look as far as the eye could see just by standing outside your mansion. It gave landowners a stature of strength.

The problem with these was that to create this show, the kitchen gardens, flowered borders, colour and fragrance and movement itself was removed, people lost work, and through showing there wealth put some down into poverty.

Inspire can organise and project manage if required tree surgeons, building work, lawns and also driveways. If your looking to soften that hard looking area we can help.

Gardens should have harmony, rhythm, manipulate the available light and above all avoid the need to refine nature