Oakmore Green Ltd

Getting started with Garden Landscape Design

If you’re in the process of building a new custom home or considering significant renovations to your existing home, it’s very likely that you have asked yourself what to do about a landscape design for the garden “do I need a Garden landscape designer?” This is a common question that we get asked and we would love to help shed some light on why using a qualified garden designer can be essential.

A garden landscape design project could be one of the most significant investments of your life. Knowing if you are investing wisely is crucial for a successful outcome.
The world of garden design can be a tricky one to navigate, especially as so many people use the terminology interchangeably.

Your garden designer plays the same role with a garden as an architect does when designing a house or extension. The challenge for the designer as opposed to the architect is that they work with living material, so the work produced is to an extent dynamic and ephemeral at its core. The designer’s imagination therefore needs to extend not just to the creation of the garden itself, but beyond to the passage of the garden through time: a house is finished when construction is complete, whilst a garden starts when work is complete.