Courtyard, Delray Beach
A north-facing courtyard that got two hours of sun. Raised beds, a water feature to cover the road noise, and planting that does not mind shade.
A garden is judged on six of them, not one.
Anybody can photograph their best job. Here are the last six we finished, in the order we finished them.
Recent work
Front garden, Boca Raton
Removed a lawn that had never worked and replaced it with hedging, gravel and six specimen plants.
Path and terrace, Highland Beach
Reclaimed stone laid on a proper base, which is the half nobody photographs and the half that fails first.
Side return, Boynton Beach
Two metres wide and previously used for bins. Now the part of the house they sit in.
Borders, Delray Beach
A planting plan for an existing structure. No building work, just the right plants in the right places.
Whole garden, Parkland
The largest thing we have built. Drawn in January, planted in March, photographed in June.
What we do
Design
A drawn plan you own, whether or not we build it.
Read more →Build
Hard landscaping, planting and irrigation, by the people who drew it.
Read more →Maintenance
Monthly or fortnightly, by the same two people each visit, who will tell you when something is dying before it does.
Irrigation and lighting
Installed at build stage where possible, because retro-fitting means digging up what we just laid.
We will tell you what a garden costs before we draw it.
A design that assumes a budget nobody stated is a drawing you cannot build, and we have been given several of them to fix.
So the first visit ends with a range, out loud. If the range is wrong for you, that visit cost you nothing and cost us an hour.
How it goes
A visit
An hour on site. We measure, we look at the light, and we give you a range before we leave.
A drawing
Scaled plan, planting list, itemised cost. Yours to keep.
The build
A start date, an end date, and the same crew from the first day to the last.
What clients say
They told us on the first visit that what we wanted would cost about double what we had in mind, which nobody else had done. Then they drew something we could afford.
The path is the thing I notice. Four years and not one stone has moved.
Same two people every fortnight for three years. They know the garden better than we do now.
Where we work
Palm Beach County
- Delray Beach
- Boca Raton
- Boynton Beach
- Highland Beach
- Gulf Stream
Broward County
- Parkland
- Coral Springs
- Deerfield Beach
- Lighthouse Point
A garden design is $1,800.
Build costs are itemised and quoted from the drawing. Most whole-garden builds we do fall between $28,000 and $90,000, and we say so on the first visit rather than at the quote.