Garden Consultancy from Haddon Studio
Professional help and advice for a day
What it is - and what it isn’t
- Our Consultancy Days take place at your home and in your garden, starting at 10am and finishing by 4pm (with a 30 minute break for lunch).
- Although some of the day will involve our designer working alone in your garden (taking measurements, assessing what you have and how ideas might work in the space, or researching options) much of the day is intended to be a collaboration where we work together to develop your garden plan.
- Although we can produce a coloured hand-sketch of your proposed garden design it has proved more beneficial to produce our sketch plan on CAD (i.e. on computer) so that you can print multiple copies or more easily share them with your selected landscaper. Hand drawing simply takes more time to achieve - and so this limits the time for further advice or development during the day.
- Please be aware though that our garden consultancy service is not an alternative to our full design service.
If you choose to re-imagine your garden on a Consultancy Day we are able to work with you to produce a sketch plan of a new design but the levels of detail possible within a day are less than those possible with our full design service (which takes weeks). Our sketch plans are expected to form the basis of your garden and its layout but final levels, dimensions, and layouts may all be subject to adjustment prior to, or during, landscaping works - whether undertaken by a professional landscape contractor or by yourself.
- If after the day is complete you require more assistance, you could book an additional day.
Perhaps you have your sketch/es (be they for a proposed new design, or an annotated plan for the works that need to be undertaken, for example) but you might then, for example, want to develop planting plans for new spaces, or for spaces that need revitalising, or perhaps to review your current borders and assess which plants to remove, which to prune, which to divide, and what to add where?
- We will attempt to achieve as much as we can during our time with you but please bear in mind that there are limits to what it will be possible to achieve within a Consultancy Day based on your requirements and the size of garden you have.
- We can help you find potential landscape contractors to build your garden if you wish.
So how much will it cost?
We charge a fee of £895 + VAT for our consultancy service (plus an additional charge for travel time where your garden is more than 60 minutes (by car) from our York Office).