Why you should use Blooming Good Gardens

Blooming Good Gardens Garden Design & Consultancy

Custom Design for Perfect Outdoor Living

Why do I need a garden designer?

Any size of garden can benefit from being professionally designed. For example, a carefully-considered design can maximize the use of a small space. Equally, a larger plot may gain from zoning into separately-defined areas of use: sunny patios, shady seating, child play areas, borders or productive areas. Very large properties may need several distinct gardens with different characters, sympathetically linked to the buildings, each other, and the extended environment.

You may have a new-build plot which needs a garden creating, or an old garden needing renovation, or one that no longer suits your lifestyle; you may have a development where you want to attract buyers with “kerb appeal”; your nursing home may be more profitable if it offers residents beautiful places to sit, or even work in; your school could encourage an interest in healthy eating, or the environment, by developing neglected areas; an attractive pub or restaurant garden can be an incentive for customers; your hotel needs a photogenic garden for weddings and functions with areas for guests to explore or relax in; your church needs an attractive approach, space for community social functions and for contemplation; people increasingly like to grow their own fruit and vegetables, and this can be included in the brief; the issues of wildlife habitat, biodiversity and sustainability are vitally important to our physical and mental well-being with gardens playing a key role in this.

Working closely with you, Steve can help focus on what is really required, and produce a plan tailored to your ideals. His professional design skills can also save you money by avoiding costly mistakes with planting and hard landscaping.

Remember, also, a well-designed garden can add value:

“A well-tended vegetable garden can certainly add to the asking price of your property,’ says Cate Dodkin, from estage agent Foxtons. 'It can also widen the market for your home.' ” Mail Online 16/4/09

“A garden turns a house into a home and significantly adds to the value” New Homes Garden Awards 2009

“A beautiful garden in front of the home not only makes your home look beautiful but also freshens up your life and increases the value of your property considerably”

PropertyDevelopmentNews.co.uk 31/1/09

“Will the pub have a garden or outside seating facility? This can be a big draw in warm weather”. www.alliance-leicestercommercialbank.co.uk

“An attractive front garden can significantly increase the value of your home” Birmingham Post 22/3/08

“’No doubt’ that gardens add value to property” Houseladder.co.uk 30/4/08

“A well-designed outdoor space really boosts a property’s desirability...boosts the value of the property” UK Property News 20/6/07

“Gardens really add to a property’s appeal” Propertyfinder.com 15/5/07

“New research has revealed that millions of Brits are adding value to their property by carrying out garden makeovers.” Whatmortgage.co.uk 20/4/06

“On average UK homeowners can add as much as £16,000 to their property value simply by taking a few easy steps to improve their garden”. UK Property News 23/6/05

Re-designed front garden by Steve Rice, Blooming Good Gardens

Butterfly on flower photo by Steve Rice, Blooming Good Gardens

Your designer should be properly trained and keep up-to-date in the fields of design, construction and horticulture; he/she should have practical skills and experience as well as imagination & flair, should be able to communicate ideas in ways that you can understand, should be adequately insured to protect your property investment and should offer you the reassurance of belonging to a professional body.

Steve has an NCH & HNC from Sparsholt College, and maintains his knowledge through Continual Professional Development (CPD); he has 14 years experience of designing & building gardens, uses advanced CAD modelling to show you what your garden could be like, has £2m Public Liability & £1m Professional Indemnity insurance, and is a full Member of The Institute of Horticulture and a Pre-Registered Member of The Society of Garden Designers, bound by the Society’s Code of Conduct.