What is Garden Advice?

You Know Your Garden Needs Something… But What?

Does something feel a bit “meh” about your garden?  Maybe certain plants are getting out of hand or some areas are kind of bare. Perhaps despite frequent visits to the garden centre it’s just… disappointing.

You might have specific ideas but you’re not sure they’ll work, or you might just have a sense that this space could be better. That’s where my Garden Advice can help.

What Is Garden Advice?

Garden Advice is for people who know their garden could be better, but don’t want (or need) the commitment, expense, or upheaval of a full-scale redesign.

Garden Advice provides a pragmatic, lighter touch approach.

The aim isn’t to completely reinvent your garden. It’s to help you understand it better, so you can make sensible, confident decisions about what to change, and what to leave alone.

It’s especially useful if you:

• Feel stuck or overwhelmed by choice

• Have inherited a garden you don’t understand yet

• Want to improve things gradually

• Are happy to do the work yourself but want to avoid mistakes

In a nutshell:

Garden Advice: Light-touch guidance, quick wins, and realistic tweaks to enhance your existing garden.

Garden Design: In-depth planning, creative rethinking, and substantial investment for a brand-new outdoor space.

What Happens During a Garden Advice Visit

Garden Advice is an in‑person visit to your garden where we walk the space together and talk things through.

I look at how your garden works now and how you’d like it to work,  then offer clear, realistic suggestions you can act on.

That might include:

• Planting suggestions that suit your garden and lifestyle

• Advice on how to manage your existing plants

• Ideas for reducing maintenance without stripping the garden of interest

• Tweaks that improve structure, balance or year‑round appeal

• Help prioritising what’s worth doing now, later or not at all

After the visit, you can choose whether you’d like a written summary of what we discussed, or simply leave it as the conversation itself.

If any of this resonates and you’d like some help moving past the “meh” stage, feel free to contact me for a no obligation chat to see if Garden Advice might be right for you.