Brief & site reading
We establish priorities, practical constraints and the character worth preserving.
Garden design
A garden with a strong idea behind it.
A complete design service for spaces that need structure, clarity and a plan before work begins.
Discuss your garden
The service
We start with the whole site: how you arrive, where you pause, what you see from the house and which parts of the garden need to earn their keep.
A good plan solves several things at once. It can make a narrow garden feel broader, make a slope useful, give an extension a proper relationship with the outside and create privacy without boxing the garden in. We develop the large moves first, then work into levels, materials, lighting, planting and the details a contractor needs to build confidently.
Site visit, survey review and design brief
Concept layouts and spatial planning
Material, level and detail development
Planting strategy and specification
A good fit when
This service is likely to suit you if…
You are planning a substantial garden redesign
The space has awkward levels, access or proportions
An extension or renovation has changed how the house meets the garden
You want to understand the whole scheme before committing to construction
What happens next
From first conversation to a resolved garden.
Concept design
We test layout, circulation, levels and the relationship between hard landscape and planting.
Developed design
Materials, details, planting and key dimensions are resolved so the scheme can be priced and built.
The Alder & Stone approach
Quiet decisions. Strong result.
We avoid overfilling a garden with features. Proportion, circulation, a limited material palette and confident planting usually do more than a long wish list.
That restraint also gives the garden room to age. Stone weathers, timber softens, plants fill out and the space becomes less “new” and more like part of the property.
