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Design & build

One route from first sketch to final planting.

For larger garden transformations, keeping design and delivery together makes decisions clearer and the finished garden more coherent.

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Design & build example garden

The service

Our design-and-build route carries the original idea through hard landscaping, structures, planting and finishing details.

This is useful when the garden involves several connected elements — new terraces, walls, steps, drainage, structures, lighting, planting and perhaps changes in level. Instead of the design becoming a set of drawings passed between separate teams, the original logic stays visible throughout the build.

Concept and developed design

Construction planning and quotations

Landscape build coordination

Plant supply, setting out and aftercare

A good fit when

This service is likely to suit you if…

You want one joined-up route from design to completion

The project has significant hard landscaping or level changes

Several trades or phases need coordinating

You care about the small finishing details surviving construction

What happens next

From first conversation to a resolved garden.

Design

We resolve the layout and enough detail to understand the scope properly.

Plan & price

The build is broken into clear elements, materials and practical sequencing.

Construct & plant

Hard landscape, structures and planting are coordinated so each stage supports the next.

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.

Next step

Send us the garden as it is — not as you think it ought to be.

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Garden seating beside a planted stone wall