My garden designer is called Toby and he did a fantastic job on my garden. I told him what I liked and he managed to turn it into reality.

I've just said to Mr Cinds this week that I would like our back garden all done next year in time for my 40th so we can have a lovely garden party.  

However, a few years ago we had a landscape gardener out to give us a price to do something with the small (and i mean tiny bit of land) between ours and next doors drive.  All we wanted was for him to plant 3 evergreen trees, and put stones over the top.  Robbing swine quoted us £1450.  We ended up doing it ourselves, materials cost us less than £100.

i only have a garden the size of a hankerchief, but Toby didn't charge me the earth, I also supplied him with coffee and food all day.

Did the designer also carry out the landscaping himself? Or did he refer you to a landscape contracter?

It was a landscape gardener that quoted us that for doing what took us half a days work with less than £100 for materials.

Good money in landscape gardening.

Hmmm not sure.


Apparently it takes ages, a friend of mine working in london has been doing this for years. He said simply for the design with no work done on the site is usually more than £500, for a park or so it can go up to £7000. It can take up to four weeks with the client brief, site analysis, the drawing itself and cost of materials/plants.



I had to design a garden as part of my course last year, took bloody ages for the first time... longer than a month anyway.

My late lovely Dad was a master landscape gardener. He designed his own garden for easy maintenance for his and Mum's growing family. The left hand side had shrubs which formed a natural border and the right hand side had flowers and bushes cos Mum wanted colour.

My Dad loved natural looking gardens and that was his art. He hated regimented lines of flowers and would often write to the local paper moaning about the long rows of daffodils next to busy roadsides getting choked in all the fumes. He felt that daffodils looked their best nestled around the edges of trees.
The whole of Bucks and Berks is full of gardens that he designed. He loved it.

He designed the garden of the house that I am selling and that is one of the selling points - people all love the garden and funnily enough, it is the one thing that I don't want to leave.

When I first move into my house the garden had a variety of fruit trees and other trees no colour it was more of a garden for wildlife which is good but not my taste one lanscape gardener quoted us £5,000 plus ..I told him what I wanted he did the design which I kept ,another one quoted us £2,100 he did the same design and a bit more with better materials, my sons have since changed bits and bobs for me which makes it easier for me to maintain it really does pay to shop around 

Would you know how that £2,100 breaks down Marg? Is that the drawing itself or the actual landscaping carried out aswell?

We got ours done last year. It took about a month from him coming, quoting and doing all the work. He replaced two paths put in decking a bin bay. stoned the borders and planted a mixture of shrubs and plants €2900 although he had quoted €400 more for the paths but forgot to put that in the finally price so we said nothing. took two guys a week to do the work. i love it and now the neighbors have gone we might actually get to enjoy it next year.

 Hi Meaty we never got charged for the drawing design we had a breakdown for the prices which included materials/patio slabs/ garden bricks for path ,fish pond/new lawn/labour= £2,100 he  showed us a book with materials to choose from,  the guy who was going to charge us £5,000 plus said the slabs I was picking were expensive and advised me to take the cheapest ones, I got the ones I wanted and more for my garden for less than half what the first guy offered us,bearing in mind this was 26 years ago but the principle is the same it is best to shop around