Best Garden Designers – What you should look for
Employing a garden designer is a task that can be fraught with difficulties. In the London area there are literally hundreds of garden designers to choose from. How do you choose and when you have chosen? How do you know that you have chosen the right one?
First of all, this is a highly competitive market and so, they should most definitely have a website with descriptions and photographs of previous projects. If they are not capable of displaying first-class photographs, then they are lacking the creative skills which you need. On their website they should offer a wide variety of completed projects with details of the type of location – rooftop terrace garden, courtyard garden, patio garden, town house front garden.
Some garden designers are garden-oriented and some are architecture-oriented. From their photographs, you will be able to see which kind you prefer and choose a style that you are comfortable with. Award-winning designers will advertise their awards. Check what the awards were by looking independently – not all are of value and there are many excellent designers who have never won anything!
When you have provisionally chosen a designer, invite him to come and discuss the project. At this point you are looking for someone who can translate your ideas and visions into a proper plan on paper. If you don’t have any ideas and visions, you are looking for someone who can provide you with a number of alternative plans, one of which you should immediately recognize as being just what you want. (If you take an immediate dislike to the designer, no matter how irrational it may be, it is better not to proceed.)
The designer should survey the site on his first visit, making an on-site sketch. Following discussions of what you want, he should then be able to provide you with a detailed plan to scale, an inventory of the materials that would be needed and an itemized estimate of the cost of actually making the garden, including the cost of the design. You should also discuss with him the future maintenance of the garden – there is no point in having a design that will involve you in more work than you want keeping the garden up. The designer should be sensitive to this.
If the designer is vague about any of these stages, he may not be the correct designer for you.
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