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Garden design
Site survey, hand-drawn plan, planting palette, lighting scheme. Six-week design process from first sketch to issued tender.
Garden design studio · London & Surrey
Gardens grown slowly, designed to last decades.
We design and build private gardens, courtyards and meadows across London and the Home Counties. A small studio of designers, planters and stonemasons working from concept sketch to ten-year maintenance plan.
- 14 years
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- 180+ gardens
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- RHS-trained planters
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- 10-year maintenance plans
The studio
Three rules we don't break on any garden.
Every Hedgerow garden is led start-to-finish by one of our four designers. We don't sub out the design or the planting — only the heavy stone work, and only to two trusted yards we've used for a decade.
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Designed for the next decade, not next season.
We plant for mature size. Year-one looks sparse on purpose so year-five looks finished.
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Local sourcing, locally-grown plants.
~92% of our plants come from three UK nurseries within 60 miles. No air-freight specimens.
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Aftercare on every garden, by us.
A planted garden is half-built. We offer monthly, quarterly and seasonal maintenance — same crew, every visit.
What we do
From hand-drawn sketch to fifth-season bloom.
Six services, all delivered by the same crew. Pick one, or stack them into a full-garden programme.
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Soft landscaping
Perennials, ornamental grasses, climbers, meadow seeding. Mature specimens where the design needs them, day-one.
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Hard landscaping
Stone paving, dry-stone walling, gravel paths, water features, retaining walls. Locally-quarried materials.
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Meadow & rewilding
Wildflower meadows, native hedging, pollinator-led planting plans for larger plots and country gardens.
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Tree & hedge work
Crown reductions, pleached hedges, native boundary planting, pleaching and pollarding by qualified arborists.
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Maintenance plans
Monthly, quarterly and seasonal visits. Same crew on your garden every visit. Detailed notes after each.
Recent gardens
Request full portfolio
Selected work, 2024–25.
Walled garden
Walled Townhouse Garden
Highgate · 9 months · 280m²
Courtyard
Mews Courtyard
Belsize Park · 4 months
Meadow
Wildflower Meadow
Surrey · 14 months · 1,200m²
Cottage garden
Cottage Rose Garden
Cotswolds · 11 months · 720m²
How we work
Five seasons from a sketch to a settled garden.
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Site walk & brief
A 90-minute visit. Soil, aspect, drainage, sightlines, how you actually use the garden. Free.
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Design
Hand-drawn plan, planting palette, materials board. One round of revisions included.
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Build
Heavy works first: paving, walls, levels. Then planting in autumn or early spring.
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Settle
Year-one watering plan and weekly check-ins through the first growing season.
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Aftercare
Long-term maintenance contract. Same crew, four to twelve visits per year, all noted.
Word of mouth
A garden told us so.
“The plan was beautiful but what surprised me was year three. The garden has actually grown into the design — not out of it. We've never had a builder think that far ahead.”
Elena R.Highgate · Walled garden
“Hedgerow are the only firm we let on the estate. The aftercare is what does it — same gardener every visit for four years, she knows every shrub by name.”
Marcus W.Surrey · Meadow restoration
“They quoted lower than the others and the build came in under. The planting is still going strong two summers later with almost zero replacement.”
Priya K.Belsize Park · Mews courtyard
Field notes
All notes
Notes from the garden.
The full year-one watering schedule for a new perennial border.
Sowing a wildflower meadow: when to start, what not to skip.
Start your garden
Send us your plot.
Drop a few photos and a paragraph about how you want to live in the garden. We'll come back inside three working days with a feasibility note, a budget band and a first-visit date.
- Free 90-minute site visit
- Fixed-price design fee
- RHS-trained planters