Insights
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 day to day, then look no further than our insights pages.
Things to consider if you are contemplating a water feature
There are lots of things to consider when deciding to add a water feature, not least will I add fish. In this blog we look at the differences between a water feature and a fish pond.
5 Steps to your perfect garden design – Step 2, Defining the overall style
The second in a series of steps to help you design your dream garden. This blog looks at syles, what is important and how to define them.
Create your Dream Garden in 5 Simple Steps – Step 1 – The Plan
A step by step guide on how to create your dream garden, with plenty of inspiration and advice from award-winning garden designers.
Garden and Landscape Concept Design
How our design professionals develop a garden through a Concept Design Process
How to water a garden: Water water water!
Watering your plants correctly and keeping them healthy!
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.