Garden design

Your garden is your own individual work of art, your own home extension, and space that has to work around your ambitions and requirements. At Jackson's Garden Services, we think outstanding outdoor space has to start with outstanding designs. From our premises near Bournemouth, serving Christchurch and Poole, our professional garden design team hears your ideas and works them up into beautiful, functional, and eco-friendly reality, creating you a garden to cherish for years to come.

What is Garden Design?

Garden design is the planning and laying out of a garden. It's not merely choosing plants; it's understanding your site conditions, your wants, and the functional needs of the space's users. Good garden design unites the hard landscape (hard construction features such as walks, patios, and walls) and the soft landscape (the living components such as plants, trees, and lawn) with each other into an outdoor, integrated, and harmonious system.

Why Invest in Professional Garden Design?

As tempting as it is to attempt a garden project on your own, professional garden design has invaluable benefits:

Unleashes Potential: An expert designer is able to envision what you cannot, maximizing space, light, and movement to produce an even more spectacular garden.

Avoids Costly Mistakes: Careful planning beforehand avoids wasteful errors in sowing or construction that may arise through trial and error.

Represents Your Personality: We translate your interests, vision, and your personality into an actual design, and your garden becomes your own.

Enhances Functionality: Whether you need space to entertain, unwind, play, or work, a professionally created space ensures your garden meets all your functional requirements.

Increases the Value of the Property: An exquisitely designed and well-planted garden adds substantially to your home's curb appeal and value.

Seasonal interest: An attractive garden plan has plants yielding beauty and structure all through the year, offering visual interest throughout the year.

Sustainability: We are able to incorporate green design principles such as water conservation techniques, native vegetation, and wildlife features into your development.

Our Garden Design Process: From Concept to Completion

Our consultative and bespoke design process at Jackson's Garden Services places your vision at the forefront of all our decision-making:

Our First Consultation & Briefing: We begin with your initial no-obligation consultation at your Bournemouth, Christchurch, or Poole home. We discuss your dreams, your lifestyle, your budget, your style, and where you'd wish to unwind in your garden. We also consider the specific conditions of the site.

Site Survey & Analysis: The garden is thoroughly surveyed, noting measurements, existing features, soil composition, sun/shade patterns, and drainage. This provides the basis the plan demands.

Conceptualization: From the brief and research, we develop initial concept ideas, typically through mood boards, sketches, and initial layout concepts. This is an extremely collaborative stage where your input is essential.

Master Planning: Upon approval of the concept, we create an overall Master Plan. This includes scaled drawings, plant plans, hard landscaping material specifications (paving, decking, fencing), and other specifics where needed.

Plant Plans: Detailed plans showing the specific plants, the quantities, and where they should be planted to achieve the desired aesthetic, seasonality, and ecological equilibrium.

Design & Installation: Having finalized the plan, our professional landscaping team can bring the vision to life. From initial construction through to completion, we monitor the process, ensuring attention to detail, high-quality workmanship, and adherence to the requirements of the plan.

Project Management: We oversee the construction phases, ensuring the design is put to the letter and to the highest level of quality, from preparation of the ground to final planting.

Types of Gardens We Design

Our expertise allows us to develop gardens of varied designs, with an eye to the integration of form and function:

Modern & Contemporary: Minimalist plantings, straight lines, high-quality materials including porcelain, steel, and rendered walls.

Traditional & Cottage: Informal, dense planting, gently curved lines, natural finishes including brick, timber, and traditional stone, with relaxed character.

Coastal & Mediterranean: Drought-tolerating plants, chipped stone, rendered walls, seaside and warmer climate reminiscent materials, the best choice for our Dorset surroundings.

Wildlife and Eco-Friendly: Design to invite native wildlife, native vegetation, ponds, and green eco-materials.

Family-Friendly gardens: Including areas for play, durable surfaces, and robust planting able to resist active use.

Low-Maintenance Gardens: Smart plant choices and hardscaping elements to save time without compromising beauty.

Geometric & Formal: Symmetrical plantings and robust architectural features to provide an ordered and stately look.

Choose Jackson's Garden Services for your garden design because

Selecting the Garden Services of Jackson is selecting to employ a group committed to making your outdoor dream a reality:

Integrated Solution: We bring together talent for design with our on-site construction and landscaping capability synergistically. This enables the planning team working on your garden to have hands-on, practical familiarity with it, thus ensuring an effortless progression from concept to end result. Local Knowledge: We are familiar with the local soils, climate, and plant suitability of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole upon which to base our designs. Innovative & Functional Designs: Not only visually attractive, our innovative design ideas are also functional, durable, and fit your lifestyle. Quality Craftsmanship: With years of landscaping expertise, we ensure all the hard and soft features of your plan are built and installed to the highest standards possible. Client-Centered Process: First and foremost, your happiness matters. We speak frankly, listen attentively, and ensure the finished result is true to your vision. Full Service: We offer a start-to-finish, hassle-free design and construction service, from initial drawings right through to the finished plant on the ground. Want to maximize your garden's potential? Call on Jackson's Garden Services today to schedule an appointment and we'll have your dream outdoor space become reality.