Debbie Carroll Garden Designs

WHY EMPLOY A GARDEN DESIGNER?

Just a few of reasons why employing a reputable Garden Designer can bring numerous benefits to you, your home, garden and environment:

•	Impartial advice aiming to create a design to suit your needs and budget. Plans enable comparable quotes or tendering with contractors. Materials and plants are chosen to suit your design.
•	Save money by combining garden design works along side house extensions or conservatories. The earlier a designer is involved the more works can be combined saving time, money and disruption.
•	Spread the cost by having a plan for the whole garden which can be implemented in stages to suit time and money constraints. The plan can be created with advice on the essential elements needed so that the early stages include elements essential to the later ones.
•	Add value to your home with a well designed garden. If a design appeals to future buyers it could help when selling and can give your home added kerb appeal. As with any improvements it is often the quality of the finish and detailing that adds the value and a poor job can have the reverse effect.
•	Reflect your style by seamlessly linking the inside into that all important outdoor room. A Designers brief is to interpret your needs and lifestyle to create a garden that reflects your personal taste while ensuring it remains functional.
•	Low maintenance gardens are requested for a variety of reasons from lack of time, disability, or just no interest in gardening. A clear plan can ensure that a pleasing space is created and that any work needed is within the limits of the owner.
•	Advice to make the most of an existing garden. Just moved in or have a neglected garden and don’t know where to start; don’t just bulldoze it. Often a plan can make use of what you already have or help you get it back in shape.
•	Changing needs due to a growing family or access issues following disability or just get a bit older can make a garden both daunting and unusable. This can lead to the feeling that you may have to move. Plans can overcome these problems and can return the garden to being an enjoyable part of the home.
•	Improving the environment can be combined with creating a great outdoors. Gardens can be designed to include; plants to attract wildlife, reducing water consumption or off-set carbon footprint. Opportunities can be planned in from the outset to use sustainable or new recycled materials or build in rain water harvesting or reed bed systems.