Garden Design Ideas

Your garden can offer you a welcome refuge from the chaos and cacophony of everyday noise and work that’s thrown at you each day. When you go into your garden on a summer’s evening after a stressful day at work, or when you slip out into the dew laden lawns on a Monday morning with a mug of fresh coffee before setting out to work, your garden gives you peace.

Of course it helps if your garden reflects your tastes and is custom designed to your needs, that way, those peaceful moments you spend in your garden can be even more special.

We are West Lothian garden design specialists and have a few ideas for you.

Wildlife Friendly Garden Design

A wildlife garden that on first glimpse seems to look untamed and left to its own devices – except you’ve designed it this way. You may want your garden to reflect a typical Scottish garden with all that that entails, including plants, shrubbery and flowers. It can create the most imaginative landscape for you and the rest of your family.

Water Garden Design

A water garden can have several different water features, or just one, depending on personal taste. You can have a pond perhaps, with a fountain and other imaginative water features – maybe a waterfall. Whatever you decide on – if it’s been carefully planned it can look amazing, all you need is a little careful thought about what you want and where you want it first, so you can avoid overcrowding.

Vegetable & Fruit Growing Garden Design

As we all begin to realise the importance of eating healthily and the ramifications of eating too much processed foods, many of us are buying in to organic food. And for those without a garden – an allotment is the next best thing. However, for those of us with one, there is much we can do to provide a healthy diet ourselves.

Cultivating a particular section of the garden and using it to grow vegetables and fruit is one way of providing yourself with all you need throughout the year to feed you and your family. A well thought out vegetable and fruit garden will serve you well through the years, sit down with your landscape gardener and talk it through.

Roof Garden Design

If you don’t have a garden and you live in an apartment, you can have a garden on your roof, and if you feel you’re out of your depth, then you can work with a landscape gardener to help create the perfect haven for relaxation during the warm summer months, and during the winter too.

If you’re worried it’ll be difficult to create a traditional garden, then have you considered artificial turf? This would provide a perfect area in which to lie on during the summer months and is relatively easy to maintain, with no mowing involved and no harmful chemicals to consider. Natural grass usually requires pesticides and herbicides, but with artificial turf this isn’t necessary. All you need to do is just brush it occasionally.

Social/Entertaining Garden Design

If you love to entertain, you can design your garden so it resembles the perfect dining area. A place where you can entertain outdoors and keep family and friends happy with dinner parties and barbecues. You can plan a perfect dining area with seating, providing space for heating stoves, lighting and of course a suitably sized dinner table.

Kitchen Garden Design

Here you can combine a vegetable garden with a dining area, by sharing the garden with a well-planned cooking/bbq spot. You can have part of the garden sectioned off for herb and veg growing.

Family Garden Design 

A large play area (hard wearing artificial grass), sunken trampolines, child friendly design for safety. Landscape gardeners can help make sure your garden is child friendly and safe, regardless of what other features (such as trampolines, slides and swings) it has. This way you can have a garden that’s warm, inviting and safe for both adults and children.

Remember that you can have artificial grass so your garden is more hard wearing, providing you with more free time to enjoy your garden. It’s true that natural turf creates more hard work with mowing, pesticides and fungicides, so artificial grass will save you both money and time in the long run.

Garden Design West Lothian

Whatever plans or ideas you have for your garden design – get in touch and talk to us about it. It doesn’t matter how outlandish they may seem, we’ve worked on all kinds of gardens over the years. We’re a team of experienced and well qualified landscape gardeners and technicians, and there’s nothing you can tell us that we haven’t heard before.

We can work on your garden design with you, we value good communication and customer service, so we’ll listen. Make your dream garden happen - so you can enjoy it just the way you deserve.