News
If you want to read a bit more before you pick up the phone or you just want to see what we are up to from day to day, then look no further than our news pages.
A year in the life of your lawn
A year in the life of your lawn! Top tips every month to create the perfect lawn for any garden lover out there. Written by our own Lawncare expert Carl.
Cool Gardens to CGLA – our Journey
It's been an amazing journey from designing small London gardens to being a firm of award winning highly artistic garden design and commercial landscape specialists.
How and Where to Use Hard Landscaping
The combination of materials is as important as the individual materials themselves, and getting the desired ‘feel’ to a garden is achieved through a subtle combination of textures and colours in the hard and soft landscaping materials.
Deciding the Best Plants for Your Garden
Planting sets the tone and style of a garden. Whether you are a lover of gardens and plants or just want somewhere neat for your barbecue, we can make it look wonderful.
Using Water Within Your Garden Design
Water is a wonderful way to add some magic to a garden. In addition to immediate visual impact, the hidden delight often lies in the movement, reflections, and sound.
Creating a Show Garden
Show gardens are a different world from ‘real’ gardens in many ways. They show the art of the possible, and finishing to the highest possible standard, whilst working to the tightest of deadlines and in incredibly restricted space!
Working in Partnership With Others
More than half of our work involves working with other professionals with joint clients. This might be the Architect, Interior Designer, QS or the Clients’ Project Manager.
Sketches, Photoshop, Lumion and Beyond
Visualising a garden is a key part of a design process. Most of us love hand drawn sketches and plans for their soft attractive feel, and we do still use these as part of many design projects, particularly in the early stages where the flow of the space is more important than all of the detailing.
How The Budget Works
Landscaping typically costs significantly more than most of us expect – unless you are just looking at a planting upgrade, think of it as a major building project not a furnishing exercise.
The Design Process
A design process can vary widely between a large or complex project or something more simple, but it will typically be completed in stages, with the amount of time and detail spent on each tailored to meet your needs and aspirations.
Choosing Your Garden Designer
Garden design is typically a highly personal thing! Like your hairdresser you will want to know they understand your needs, can articulate your ideas, are able to interpret them and that you can speak up if you don’t like what they are suggesting.