76 Garden design O
ccasionally a prospective client, wanting an instant response or to jump the queue asks me to ‘knock out a quick design’. Influenced
by garden makeover programmes, where everything seems fast, easy – and cheap, they don’t realise that a designer’s experience, skills, creative inspiration and boring basics like the size of the garden, orientation, exposure, gradient and budget all conspire together to make good design something you don’t knock out quickly. Before practising, I
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undertook a post-graduate diploma in Landscape Architecture at Oxford Brookes University and were you to engage a qualified designer like myself then you’d expect more or less the following process. They’d want to identify
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by Colette Charsley One of the few
roughly 10% of the value of your property, which is enough to induce most people to sit down suddenly. (disclosure: it’s usually significantly less than this). Your designer would then need an accurate
survey of your garden, to the centimetre, including orientation and levels. This is particularly important in a hilly area like Devon. You simply cannot build steps for instance if you don’t know how many you need to get from A to B. This would be transfered to a CAD (computer aided design) package. If the design is being done in conjunction with building work, then architects will also be using this format. Taking into account the
Notes: New levels shown Red. The majority of existing slope to be retained.
Easy Lawn.
Hard surfaces - two finishes only. York stone slabs and recycled crushed concrete 4mm to dust.
Edging - Everedge Classic. 2510
Seating areas to have higher proportion of stone slabs, other areas to have higher proportion of crushed stone. Pointing to be kept loose to encourage self seeding.
Raised Pond.
New stone wall to be built by the Evans Estate
Wildflower meadow planting and orchard.
Ornamental planting. Wildflower meadow mix - Emorsgate EM3.
Raised pond partially surrounded by low ground cover style planting.
South facing Orchard for apple and pear trees to link to existing orchard in Farmhouse garden.
For Hard Landscape detail refer to drawing Numbers 2013/34/08-R2, 2013/09-R2, 2013/10-R10.
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your overall needs – your lifestage and lifestyle – do you have young children or are you ‘empty nesters’, do you entertain a lot, do you want a vegetable garden or swimming pool, what you want from your garden, how you would use it and the level of maintenance you would have the time or inclination to put in, or pay someone else to do for you. There’d also be a conversation about budget –
colette@charsleydesign.com t: 01548 581753 m: 07774 827799
despite what makeover programmes suggest, gardens are expensive to create. The Society of Garden Designer’s rule of thumb is that you should think about
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All dimensions must be checked on site and not scaled from this drawing.
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Drawing Number CAD File Name West Buckland - Masterplan - Rev 4
West Buckland Fam Barns 2013/34/01 - R4
Drawn By C Charsley Date April 2015
desired effect of the finished garden, allocation of space within it, the need for year round visual interest, planting style, colour palette, soil type, drainage, any new or existing hard landscaping such as
terraces, decks and steps the designer can then (finally) create a computer aided layout with detailed planting plans.
Unlike on TV programmes, the design process
is collaborative and there will be usually be some revisions and tweaks to the masterplan. So if you ever ask a designer to knock out something
quickly, you will now understand why rolled eyes may be one of the politer responses you’ll get.
colette@charsleydesign.com
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Creative and beautiful designs for village, town and country gardens
Colette Charsley PG Dip OCGD t: 01548 581753 m: 07774 827799
colette@charsleydesign.com
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