Border Design

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Work with Hortus Pink Landscapes to create dream borders in your garden

At Hortus Pink Landscapes, each border design project is focused to enhance plant biodiversity and promote client well-being, while positively impacting the environment.

Our expertise in complimentary planting ensures every garden reaches its full potential, elevating your investment with stylish planting schemes that add a 'wow-factor'. We offer comprehensive planting services across Essex and Suffolk, integrating ecologically balanced dry garden schemes to reduce water consumption.

Our focus is on sustainable garden planting schemes with practical border design changes for a thriving, wildlife-friendly garden. Sustainable garden planting schemes are more than a trend, they’re a practical approach to healthier soil, happier wildlife, and a garden that thrives through changing seasons. In the UK (with attention to Essex and Suffolk), where weather can be unpredictable and soils vary from sandy to clay-heavy, designing with sustainability in mind helps your outdoor space remain productive, beautiful, and resilient. This guide dives into the benefits of sustainable garden planting schemes in the UK and offers actionable design tips for implementing changes, utilising existing plants, and planning new installations.

From English cottage gardens and tropical gardens, to mediterranean and dry gardens, our planting designs consider soil type, light levels, and local conditions to ensure thriving, sustainable gardens.

Being a 4th generation professional horticulturalist means we have the knowledge and skills to determine which plant varieties will be most suitable for any location or situation to help plants thrive. Combine this with expert problem solving, beautiful and resilient plant combinations, educational ‘work alongside us’ offerings and free ongoing WhatsApp advice, you’re in safe hands.

Whether part of a full garden build or as an independent border design or refresh, our services include border assessment, plant selection, installation, and ongoing care, priced depending on garden size and garden conditions. Let us transform your planted outdoor space into a vibrant sanctuary that enhances both property and lifestyle.

“Zoe has turned our garden into a riot of colour with her careful planning of plants and shrubs. She is very knowledgeable, very hard working and easy to get on with. I recommend her unreservedly.”

— Roy & Judith Waters, Project Bailey

Hortus Pink Border Design Packages

Work with our experienced team to create the garden of your dreams.

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DIY Planting Consultation

From £180 *cost may vary depending on site complexity and location. 

Do you have lots of enthusiasm, but keep killing plants?

Have you inherited a garden which doesn’t reflect your personal style?

Simply need professional plant inspiration and guidance?

Then a DIY Planting Consultation is for you. During our 1hr visit, we will discus your garden planting and what’s not working for you. Plant, soil and pruning ideas will be provided in writing (2-3 pages sent by post) for you to implement yourself. This includes ideas for soil improvement, existing planting observations to improve your borders, observations for pruning, plants that need relocating, and a high level plant mood board for new planting.

BOOK A DIY PLANTING CONSULTATION
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Border Design

From £600 *cost may vary depending on site complexity and location.

Keen to implement new borders yourself, but not sure exactly what to plant and where? If your borders are more complex or you are starting with entirely new borders, then you may need more detailed help. Our Bespoke Border Design service provides a 2 hour on site consultation to understand your likes/ dislikes, measure and photograph the borders, followed by a detailed written report (up to 20 pages) and 1 x A3 pencil border design which are posted to you covering:

  • New border placement notes.  

  • Plant combination mood board.

  • Plant features - size, season of interest, general information. 

  • Pencil drawn border design.

  • Plant schedule (quantity and suggested plant/ pot size).

  • Written tips for border shaping, soil preparation, plant setting out, planting up, staking and support, feeding, watering.

  • Ongoing plant maintenance calendar. 

  • FREE WhatsApp service if you have ongoing management questions.

BOOK A BORDER DESIGN
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Plant Sourcing

From £1000 for a small garden and priced to your planting budget as a scalable service, e.g. plant quantity and pot size selected to your budget.

Once you have your Bespoke Border Design, sourcing plants (and alternatives based on availability) can be challenging from your local garden centre. Our carefully developed National and European network of growers and specialist providers is extensive. We can source planting at scale based on availability, volume and size requirements. This service overs plant sourcing, similar alternative suggestions (based on plant availability) and supply/ delivery, ongoing plant maintenance calendar. 

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Bespoke Planting Package

From £1200 for a small garden. Priced based on your location, size and garden complexity.

If you would like a fully managed service and want to see your borders flourish, we offer a scalable packages for planted borders. Starting with a 45minute site visit to understand your requirements, photograph the borders, check the ground conditions and existing planting. Once we have agreed your plant schedule (based on immediate availability) and approach for the garden, we commence border preparation (cutting back, plant relocation, clearing, digging, manure application, waste removal) and plant installation. Each project is delivered with a care calendar and we maintain a free WhatsApp service if you have ongoing questions. This means we are here to take the stress out of it for you and deliver a stunning newly planted garden for you to enjoy.

BOOK A BESPOKE PLANTING PACKAGE

“I am delighted with my garden after Zoe gave me advice on how to refresh and reshape the borders. She has extensive knowledge of plants and what would grow best in the different areas of my garden. Zoe is a very friendly person, works very hard and nothing is too much trouble for her. She provides advice on after care of the plants, which is very helpful and also offers a maintenance service. I would have no hesitation recommending Zoe to anyone.”

— Hilary Hull, Project Lorkin (Colchester)

“We used Hortus Pink recently for a Border Refresh. Very happy with the results and look forward to seeing some of the panting come alive in spring. We were really listened. to about what we like and didn’t like. Very professional throughout. Very punctual and incredibly hard and diligent workers. Would have no problem recommending them to anyone.”

— Noelle Fabi, Project Dulwich (Holland on sea)

“I would like to say the biggest ‘Thank You’ for not only giving my garden a beautiful refresh, but for restoring my love of gardening. There is nothing I like more now than to potter or sit and wonder at the magic of it all. Your design skills and work ethic are second to none. Plus, you listened to my likes and dislikes and designed a garden which is ready for our changing climate.”

— Jacquie Dixon, Project Esplanade (Holland on sea)

“Thank you Zoe, for my fabulous garden. You and the team worked so hard and delivered the garden I asked for, and more.”

— June Cox, Project Wittenwood (Frinton on sea)
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