Garden design & landscaping · Bath
Gardens made for living, not just looking.
We design and build calm, characterful outdoor spaces around the way you actually live — from first sketch and planting plan to the final stone laid.
A quieter kind of landscaping
Designed around the house. Rooted in the landscape.
Bath gardens have their own character: honey-coloured stone, changing levels, mature boundaries and views worth protecting. We start with those things, then shape the garden around how you want to use it.
The result is not a collection of fashionable features. It is one coherent space — with good routes, comfortable places to sit, materials that belong and planting that gets better as it settles.
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What we do
One studio, from idea to planting.
Some clients need a clear design they can take forward. Others want the whole garden coordinated from survey through construction and planting. We can work either way.
Garden design
Site thinking, concepts, layouts, levels, materials and a plan that makes the whole garden add up.
Design & build
A joined-up route from drawing board to finished garden, with the design intent kept visible on site.
Planting design
Structure, texture, movement and seasonal interest chosen for the site — and for the care you want to give it.
Garden renovation
Keep the mature trees and useful structure; edit, repair and reconnect everything around them.
Selected work
Three very different gardens.
Compact courtyards, family gardens and mature country plots ask different questions. The common thread is restraint: fewer materials, clearer structure and planting that belongs.
The details matter
Stone, timber, planting and light should feel like one decision.
We keep palettes deliberately tight. In a Bath garden that might mean locally sympathetic stone, clay pavers, gravel, oak, restrained metalwork and planting that softens those harder edges rather than fighting them.
It is the junctions — the step that lands in the right place, the wall that becomes a seat, the planting that brushes a path — that make a finished garden feel resolved.
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How it works
A clear process, with space for good ideas.
DiscoverWe start with the site, the house and how you want to use the garden.
DesignIdeas become a coherent plan — materials, levels, planting and detail.
BuildWe coordinate the practical work carefully and keep the finish honest.
Settle inPlanting establishes, materials weather and the garden gets better with time.
Our full process →Planning a garden in Bath?
Bring us the awkward slope, the empty lawn or the garden that never quite worked.
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