garden design
Hortus Paradisi provides a full garden design service by Suzie Topping
Suzie will come and meet with you to discuss personal preferences, and try to identify themes and trends within your home, and throughout your daily life that can be implemented within your design to create a personal yet functional space to “Live Outdoors”.
Design works are simply charge @ £50 per hour.
Every garden will need to be surveyed, either by Suzie and the team, or if the garden is complex in size, levels, and existing features an external surveyor will be booked to ensure accuracy within the design.
Please email us @ Hortusparadisi@gmail.com for a break down of the design process.
planting design
Hortus Paradisi provides a full planting design service.
This can be in addition to a new garden design, or simply when existing planting or hard landscaping needs refreshing.
Planting layout plans are charged @ £50 per hour, with a survey being required if not already carried out, which will include a ph and soil structure test, along with an extensive check of onsite conditions, invasive species, existing shrubs and trees etc..
hard landscaping
Hard landscaping provides the framework to any garden. As a company we are experienced in all elements of hard landscaping, including:
Paving: Sandstone, Limestone, Porcelain, Granite, formed concrete, resin bound, clay brick.
Walling: Brick, block, reinforced retainment, sleeper retainment, gabions, render faced, stone clad.
Decking: Composite, hardwood, softwood
Wooden structures: Pergolas, trellis, fencing, archways, arbours.
Water features: water walls, rills, ponds, formed stone.
Driveways: Gravel, granite setts.
Drainage: SUDs compliant soak-aways, land drainage solutions.
Electrics and lighting
soft landscaping
To compliment the structural impact of hard landscaping, soft landscaping is the ‘dressing’ of any design project.
As a company we are experienced in soft landscaping, including:
Lawn construction: Turfing and seeding
Planting: Soil analysis, bed cultivation, setting out, mulching, pots and containers
Tree planting: Preparation, anchoring
Irrigation, edging to lawns and borders
Wildflower establishment
Collaborative Work
Hortus Paradisi have successfully collaborated over their careers with independent designers, and other landscape contractors in order to create bespoke high end gardens and outdoor spaces. We wish to continue this service alongside our own projects.