“If I had a pound for every time I have been asked ‘how much does it cost to landscape the garden’ I wouldn’t still be landscaping gardens!” – Miles Wellings, Director.
The simple answer is it varies on a multitude of factors. The cost of designing and building a new landscape garden is determined by the following factors: size of area to be landscaped, specification of materials, access into the garden, is the ground flat or on a gradient, do you want lighting, electrics and planting? Just to name a few of the major factors that effect the cost.
This is why it is so important to start off by designing the garden? Would you have an extension built on your home without a set of architectural plans?
If the answer is yes then we may not be the company for you! When we design the garden we start off by listening to you to understand your requirements as every garden is different with each clients different needs and requirements.
As the leading domestic garden design and build company in the East Midlands this is why for us it is so important to first establish these factors and then address the awkward elephant in the room… the budget.
The reason why it is so important for us to get a rough understanding of the budget is because as you will see in examples below gardens range in cost, starting at a build cost of £10,000 and going up to £300,0000. Our average project is £30,000 inc VAT.
When we have an understanding of the budget we can then make sure we design the garden to meet your budget AND specification. Meaning we can guide you sensibly for what is possible for the budget with our design and construction knowledge, managing your expectations from the beginning rather than you receiving a disappointing and unrealistic proposal at the end.
Warning! Do not design your new garden until you know the following!
We started the design aspect of our company 3 years ago after we got fed up of receiving calls from so called designer’s who had created a 2D plan for a landscaped garden that did not help the client visualise how their new garden would look in any way, and had designed an all singing all dancing Chelsea award winning garden for £80,000 when the clients budget was £20,000-30,000 for us to come in and quote and look like the bad people! You get where where I am going with this.
When designing the garden it is important that the company you choose has a full understanding of what goes into the build including what is actually possible to construct and what the costings are of different designs to actually build.
We now only construct our own designs, making sure that we fully understand the clients budget and requirements first. We then create 3D digital renders to show you EXACTLY how the garden will look once it has been constructed so you are 100% clear on what is being constructed before we even put a spade in the ground!
Would you spend £30,000 on a new car without even seeing it? Okay enough of my metaphors now!