Garden Design

Chic design to create your dream garden

At Hortus Pink Landscapes, we blend naturalism and modernity to create sustainable gardens that connect people with nature. Serving Essex and Suffolk, we offer bespoke garden design services, tailored to your needs and budget.

With prices for garden design ranging from £300 +vat for a simple package, to £3,500 + vat for complex packages, we ensure inspirational design and tailored design solutions to bring your dream garden to life.

Our garden design packages can be tailored to each client garden and design complexity, for everything from:

  • Design inspiration visit - For people who would like to discuss their own garden design ideas and seek creative solutions to problems to help them enhance their DIY garden design. From £300+ vat.

  • Concept sketch for mini makeovers - Some existing gardens simply need cost effective mini concept features and revised planting to enliven a tired space suffering from a loss of identity. From £480+ vat.

  • Full design for blank canvas gardens - For new build houses and gardens beyond salvage that need a completely new garden installed. From £800+ vat.

Strong and unique design briefs in odd shaped gardens often bring the most creative and stunning results - they just need creative flair and knowledge of scale to deliver a cohesive design.

There are many garden trends and more traditional tried and tested garden styles. Working out what to put and where takes skill. All our designs are conducted on paper with illustrations to help clients see what their future garden will look like.

“We would like to thank Zoe and the team at Hortus Pink Landscapes for turning our drab and featureless garden into a stylish and beautifully planted space that we love to spend time in”.

— Project Marlowe

We look to forge connections between people and place

This means we bring a creative, yet practical, design approach, alongside a detailed understanding of nature and place, combined with your specific wishes.

The requirements for all new gardens are unique, especially when combined with the budget, garden situation and your lifestyle. We really listen to your ideas and requests to help shape a garden vision and ensure it fits your lifestyle for the long term.

Depending on your needs, some or all of the our services come in a bespoke Hortus Pink Landscapes design package. We can design simple gardens, without tricky levels and with good access, on a cost effective basis. For larger or more complex gardens over 200m2, the use of third party surveyors and structural engineers along with more detailed design requirements are likely needed.

Read on for the various design packages we offer however we know that every garden (and client!) is unique so if you would like to talk to us about your project and ideas and can’t see what you are looking for here, do not hesitate to get in touch.

Hortus Pink Landscapes Design Packages

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

Design Inspiration Visit

From £300+ vat *cost may vary depending on site complexity/ size and location.

For a 2 hour on site visit with a follow up document emailed: 3-5 written pages with design inspiration ideas and suggestions.

This session will help you start to understand your garden limitations in relation to your own ideas, location and build budget. We can discuss the benefits and limitations of different materials and initial design ideas. This session will help you begin to frame the potential your garden has and what can likely be achieved with your build budget. Design ideas will be written up for you to explore with increased inspiration that you can create a stunning new garden.

Concept Sketch for a Feature

From £480+vat * cost may vary depending on your site complexity/ size, sketching requirements and location.

2 hours on site visit to understand your initial needs and high-level sketching brief and photograph the area, with a follow up document posted to you: 1 x half page sketch brief 1 x A3 concept sketch and 1 x plant list.

This service is aimed at mature gardens which need a small design feature inserted, with updated planting to modernise and rejuvenate the space. Covering a specifically chosen part of the garden to update in isolation eg a simple seating area with adjacent borders. You can then implement the sketch yourself, or we can provide an estimate to build and plant, once a Master Plan and Technical drawings have been commissioned under separate contract.

Full Design Package

For straight forward blank canvas gardens on non-sloping sites:

Up to 100m2 garden £800 +VAT

100-250m2 garden £1200 + VAT

250-400m2 garden £1800 + VAT

*cost may vary depending on your location, site complexity and design needs.

Our design packages are tailored to your needs, but simple blank canvas gardens often require:

  1. INITIAL CONSULTATION & SITE SURVEY/ ANALYSIS: Emailed pre-questionnaire and Pinterest mood board for you to add images you like and help frame your garden consultation. 1 x 2 hour consultation on site to discuss your needs and build budget, measure and photograph with site analysis. Output: design brief (written); site analysis (drawn); site logistics (written); with 1 round of feedback/ refinement for each.

  2. CONCEPT DESIGN: 1 x 2 hour meeting on site to discuss the concept stage and build budget initial costing. Output: production of up to 2 concept sketches showcasing the initial design ideas/ layout with general materials placement to scale amongst existing trees/ plants and features; initial material samples; indication of cost to build; 1 planting mood board (plant details included); with 1 round of feedback/ refinement for each.

  3. DEVELOPED DESIGN: 1 x 1 hour meeting to present the final developed design featuring a Master Plan and Perspective Illustration, final Planting List and discuss the cost to build. Output: 1 x Design Master Plan; 1 x Perspective Illustration; 1 x Planting List; relevant material samples.

    *technical design is excluded, but agreed via a Variation Order at the end of the above 3-phase design process.

Our Creative Garden Design Process

Our garden design service combines naturalism and modernity with a special focus on celebrating the planted medium and a delicate impact on the land. Our design process is split into bespoke phases seamlessly taking you from design into build.

  • Design contract and invoice.

    New client questionnaire to help all project decision makers formulate a cohesive and initial understanding of needs, wants and likes before our first meeting.

    Collaborative Pinterest mood board showing collective inspiration from day one.

  • Photograph the garden in relation to the property and neighbouring area.

    Soil samples and observations on site.

    Written and drawn/ mapped site survey of the key space, restrictions, levels and areas in scope.

    Topographical land survey measurement and mapping of land levels and existing trees/ shrubs key to the building. We usually conduct this ourselves, but larger/ more complex projects require 3rd party surveyor expertise at additional cost.

    Review of relevant local planning and conservation restrictions.

  • Concept design sketches to provide initial creative ideas and options for development.

    Hard landscaping material samples, paint colours and suggested providers for furniture, sheds, greenhouses, etc.

    Initial plant list for feedback, to show scale, colour, form, scent and season of interest across different garden segments.

  • Hand drawn Master Plan, based on feedback, which sets the final design and key areas/ materials in a new garden.

    Hand drawn perspective illustration to help envisage the new garden when complete and planting mature.

    Finalised plant lists by area.

    Suggestions for garden furniture, artefacts, sculpture and pots.

  • Construction drawings and detailed technical build specifications.

    Structural engineer specifications for tricky sloped sites and heavily technical design/ build.

    Planting plans and plant schedule.

    Setting Out Plan for construction.

    Drainage plan to ensure water is managed effectively.

    Lighting plan to illuminate the outside space at night.

    Irrigation and water conservation plan.

    Cost to build Fee Estimate and associated Construction & Design Management (CDM) Plan for the build schedule.

  • Build contract and mobilisation invoice.

    Project management, with materials scheduling and sub-contractor oversight.

    Build delivery with overall quality control.

    Plant sourcing and installation.

    Plant care calendar with a month by month suggestion on what to do and when.

    Build completion letter with handover and client sign-off.

    Ongoing garden maintenance of all hard and soft landscaping.

Garden design perspective illustration showing a pergola with table and chairs underneath. Pretty planting, hedges and trees surround
A garden design perspective illustration showing pathways and patio's circling a central shingle dray garden. Planted trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials surround this haven garden
A garden design perspective illustration for newly planted borders and archway trio
Master Plan garden design for a contemporary back garden. Shingle pathways are structured around multistem trees and herbaceous planting with hornbeam hedging.
A garden design perspective illustration for a large family garden and entertainment area. Multiple patios, an outdoor kitchen, pergola, lounge seating area, dining area and planted borders complete the chic final design
A garden design perspective illustration for a front garden with a coastal pine blue theme. The striking central circular lawn is fringed with a horseshoe shaped hedge.
A garden design perspective illustration for a small back garden renovation. Pleached hornbeam trees provide height and greenery for an ugly view, along with hedges for added greenery. Black painted slatted fencing adds a contemporary slice of black
A garden design perspective illustration for a relaxation garden. The planted colour pallet is soft greens and white herbaceous perennials, with multi-stem trees and larger statement trees for shade and seclusion.
A garden design perspective illustration for a family and their tortoise. This garden showcases a new build garden with lawns, hedging, planted borders, shingle pathways with stepping stones, a raised patio with pergola, summer house and new brick wa
A garden design perspective illustration for a 120m long and 5m wide garden. This tricky space needed garden rooms developed to divide the long space into 3 key areas. All with a mediterranean theme, the planting is designed to warm summers and memor
A garden design Master Plan showing the key areas of a new garden design.
A garden design perspective illustration for a family garden. The new patio, steps, decorative stone areas, arch trio, lawn, sunken seating and fire pit area and planted borders are designed on a multi-level basis. Planting is tropical inspired but p
A family garden with diagonal patio, herringbone pathways, raised planters, raised patio and pergola, purpose built outdoor kitchen with gazebo, and pathways.
A large new build garden with multiple porcelain patio's, arches, earth mound laid to lawn, shingle dry garden, stepping stones and shingle pathways, statement large format pots, pleached trees, multistem trees, planting.