Landscape garden design service in Leeds – helping create beautiful gardens with new plants, patio seating areas and lawns - to enjoy your outside space

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Trusted, reliable and recommended, based locally in Leeds LS8 landscape gardeners design service offering beautiful landscaping of your outdoor space for your entertaining and enjoyment. Whether you've got a small balcony or a large Leeds garden, you're on flat or sloping land, you'd like more privacy, or need hard or soft landscaping: our Leeds landscape designers can help you achieve a place to sit, relax and love spending time in. Investing in a beautifully designed, well maintained garden can improve the quality of life and is like adding another room to your home. Have you noticed how food and drink tastes nicer when enjoyed outdoors!

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We're highly recommended Leeds garden designers with great reviews such as: “The new landscaping really does look marvellous and much better than I had expected, so thank you for that” - Kay, Property Management Agent, Headingley, October 2018

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However you want to use your garden, we will listen, and work with you to look at options, sharing our Leeds garden designer experience for your Leeds landscaping project. Including providing ideas, advice, gardening tips, bespoke garden designs, plans, mood boards - for the look, feel and use of your outdoor space, and whether you want:

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• Help with garden design ideas for the front, side(s) or back of your home

• Minimalist, low maintenance gardens

• Large garden seating and entertaining areas for drinks, friends, and barbeques 

• Garden lighting – for a high-end look - to continue socialising after dark.

• And or practical garden lighting - for increased security, or to illuminate access to and from your property or an outbuilding

• A tidy, formal garden with symmetry and straight lines, or a more informal garden with curves and more random planting

• Beautiful new garden lawn and turf laying in Leeds. Lawns designed, laid and finished to the shape of your choice – where the grass is greener on your side of the fence

• Beautiful planting of flowers with vibrant colours, bushes and fragrant shrubs

• Large architectural plants, or smaller bedding plants

• Evergreens for all year round colour

• Hedges, conifers or plants for screening or privacy

• Fruit trees (pretty blossom in the spring, lush green leaves in the summer, and - green fingers permitting - a bumper crop of fruit in the autumn!) OK, admittedly, the tree will be bare in the winter - blame nature!

• Herb gardens

• Your own vegetable patch – for the more hands on gardeners

• Bulbs for a burst of colour in the spring (think crocuses, daffodils, tulips etc.) 

• Play areas for children

• Whether you want a wildlife friendly garden - and attract birds, bees, or butterflies

• A garden to enjoy yourselves, or to tidy and smarten the garden to increase interest and appeal when trying to sell your property (see our home staging)

• (Depending on your budget) whether you want mature established plants, or have the patience to watch your garden grow

• A place to sit, lounge - or even sunbathe - and enjoy being in in the summer, (and still a place to love looking out on in the colder months)

• Shaded areas designed into your garden - if the Leeds sun gets too hot!

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We will discuss (if any) of the original garden is staying. Plus any existing trees and plants that (if/where possible) you would like incorporating in your new landscaped design. 

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Planning your Leeds garden design - ideas and inspiration

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Good research, garden layout and planning will make the best use of your outdoor space. Being expert Leeds landscape designers we'll work with you to get a garden design that works for you. A great initial place to start for garden ideas and inspiration is:

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• Visiting garden centres and plant nurseries (being bespoke Leeds landscape gardeners, we can also come with you to help choose your plants, or - if your prefer a fully project managed Leeds garden design service - you can leave it all to us to save your time)

• Friends or neighbours gardens that you like

• Ideas from parks, botanical gardens, landscaped public spaces, or be even inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire countryside (admittedly we might have to manage your expectations and scale back any ideas, to incorporate this into your Leeds back garden!)

• Specialist gardening magazines, or Googling images of 'garden design ideas' or on Pinterest...

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As local LS8 based Leeds landscape gardeners we will also consider the options, landscaping materials and process to create whatever best suits your design including:

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• New garden paths or stepping stones (can add interest, look beautiful, plus are practical in the wetter months, to save walking over waterlogged ground)

• Building beautiful Leeds patio areas, from your choice of concrete, paving, block paving

• Or create your (more in tune with nature) entertaining space from wood, as we offer timber decking in Leeds and raised decking

• Garden furniture: tables, chairs, parasols, garden benches

• Retaining walls

• Raised beds e.g. timber or rendered raised flowerbeds

• Steps/split level garden

• Pots and planters. (If light enough) garden pots and planters can add design flexibility, in that in time they could be moved around to change the look of the garden

• Low maintenance borders and flower beds

• Use of weed membrane – including to help suppress invasive plants

• Gravel or tree bark or mulch – can look neat and decorative. Plus helps prevent weeds and retain moisture in the soil to reduce watering in the summer

• Trellis - attached on top of a fence, stand alone or on a wall – for plants to climb, and/or to screen areas for more privacy

• (Trellis is usually treated timber and can be left as natural looking wood or painted if you'd prefer)

• Garden structures such as gazebos, pergolas to add interest

• (Some garden structures are permitted up to 4 metres in height, 2.5 metres if within 2 metres of a boundary, and combined with other outbuildings or decking etc. must not cover more than half the original area of the land, though always check with local planning first)

• Garden water features - for that calming and tranquil flowing water sound

• Ground clearance, (use of skips where necessary), preparation, including more fertile topsoil and compost

• We can help paint your garden and outdoor space: any garden rooms or outbuildings, sheds, fences, walls, raised rendered beds, trellises etc. as part of our painting and decorating service.

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We help complete the look of your outdoor space with your choice of garden walls, fences, garden gates and driveway gates and pillars in Leeds:

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• Garden fences – to define your boundary or for more security and privacy:

• Choose from panel fencing, with fence posts (can be set in concrete for a strong, sturdy fence) 

• Bespoke, hand crafted, classic wooden fencing, such as a painted white picket fence (let more light through whilst still providing a degree of screening)

• Bespoke, hand crafted, made to measure, classic wooden driveway gates

• Brick garden walls - to create a grand look

• Any brick or block walls could be painted, or rendered, even white if you want a more mediterranean look, to your Leeds garden

• Incorporate driveway pillars, with pier caps - for a grander entrance and increased curb appeal 

• Our brick pillars are filled with rebar (reinforcing bar), then concrete core – so they are suitable for hanging metal driveway gates

• In most cases permitted development allows a garden fence up to 2 metres in height, and up to 1 metre when adjoining a road or footpath (though do first check with local planning)

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For those with gardens with enough space, and parking requirements, we offer a gravel drives service in Leeds:

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• Local LS8 based beautiful gravel drive service in Leeds that increase the curb appeal of your home and gives a high-end look

• We can discuss ideas and options and offer advice before creating your driveway plan and design

• We'll listen, and best incorporate your requirements for use: such as ease of access, parking, number of cars for you and your visitors, and where space permits car turning on your gravel drive

• Some homeowners prefer gravel drives and they like the crunch sound (how very stately home!)

• Plus (as above) gravel may offer increased security, as it makes more of a noise when walking over

• Hard landscaping with gravel is a natural way to let water drain back into the ground and to help prevent puddling on your drive

• (For allowing rainwater drainage reasons above, in most cases you do not need planning permission for a gravel drive)

• Low maintenance (being loose gravel, any weeds are a lot easier to pull up, than through cracks of flags or old tarmac)

• Your gravel drive can be edged with a decorative brick or block paving border. This helps define the drive shape, keep chippings within the drive (i.e. rather than escaping into any adjoining grass or flower beds) and edging looks neater and completes the look

• You have a choice of gravels for the finish your drive, (although gravel pieces must be large enough so as not to get stuck in the tread of vehicle tires) and we can assist you with this 

• (For interest, the white/light colour gravel used, in the scrolling images at the top of this page, is Cotswold chippings) 

• Where space permits, we can add flower beds to your gravel driveway design, for a more beautiful colourful look