Garden design
Low maintenance garden design
Family gardens, courtyards, and formal or informal layouts that you can actually look after.
Most people want a garden they can sit in. Mowing, pots and a bit of pruning are fine. A border that needs a weekend every month is not, once work and family take the hours.
A low maintenance garden is not a yard of concrete. It is a layout where the hard surfaces, the lawn and the planting each earn their place, so a short regular routine keeps the whole thing in hand.
Jake designs family and child-friendly gardens, courtyard gardens, and both formal and informal layouts. Turf stays where children need somewhere to play. Paving, gravel, walls, decking and pergolas take the ground that would otherwise be weeding.
What this covers
- Family and child-friendly layouts, with lawn kept where it is used
- Courtyard and side-return gardens
- Formal and informal designs
- Paving, gravel, decking and careful planting rather than high-upkeep beds
- Design that can be built by the same team, through to the last sweep-up
Related work
Further reading: Low maintenance gardens on Hertfordshire clay, What happens when you ask Jake to look at a garden.