Planting Design
A garden isn’t a garden without plants…
At Bo Cook Landscape & Garden Design, we specialise in crafting planting designs that enhance your garden's beauty and biodiversity. Our Planting Design Package focuses on your garden’s borders, breathing life and seasonality into your outdoor space.
Our approach ensures ‘right plant; right place’ and brings a harmonious blend of structure, colour, and seasonal interest, tailored to your garden's unique conditions.
Whether you're looking to rejuvenate existing borders or create new ones, we can help you elevate your garden to a thriving, bustling hub for wildlife.
Our Process
Initial Consultation
Our process begins with an in-depth consultation to understand your vision and assess your garden's specifics, including soil type, exposure, light and shade, and existing plants and features. We acquire an understanding of what your plant loves are, as well as ones you are less keen on - and we assess your colour preferences too, explaining how seasonality and the sun’s azimuth in differing seasons impacts colour in the garden.
Planting Design
We then develop a detailed 2D planting plan that outlines:
Plant Selection: Carefully chosen plants suited to your garden's conditions, focusing on perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees that provide year-round interest.
Placement and Quantity: Precise locations and quantities for each plant to ensure a balanced and thriving garden.
Existing Vegetation: Recommendations on which current plants to retain or relocate, integrating them seamlessly into the new design.
This comprehensive plan serves as a roadmap, guiding you or your landscapers through the planting process with clarity and confidence.
Plant Sourcing
To bring the design to life, we offer assistance with sourcing high-quality plants. This includes:
Plant Schedules: Preparing detailed lists to obtain accurate quotes from reputable nurseries, managing substitutions depending on supply.
Supplier Coordination: Organising and comparing quotes, ensuring the best selections within your budget, and reducing transportation costs.
Quality Assurance: Overseeing the procurement process to guarantee healthy and robust plants, to make sure you receive the high quality of plant stock.
Our established relationships with trusted nurseries ensure that the plants selected will be of the best quality, and anything we are not happy with will be returned and replaced.
Plant Setting Out & Planting Services
For those seeking additional support, we provide on-site assistance with plant placement and installation:
Setting Out: Accurately positioning plants according to the design plan, ensuring optimal growth conditions and aesthetic appeal. We will at times make some small on site adjustments to the plan as we are always designing!
Planting: Collaborating with your planting team or managing the planting process ourselves, adhering to industry best practices for planting.
Aftercare Guidance: Offering advice on watering, maintenance, and ongoing care to keep your garden flourishing.
Our hands-on approach ensures that the transition from design to reality is seamless and stress-free.
Our comprehensive design process encompasses:
Research: Analysing your garden's conditions and selecting plants that align with your aesthetic preferences and environmental factors.
Design: Creating a bespoke planting plan that balances beauty, functionality, and sustainability.
Liaison: Coordinating with all parties involved, including clients, contractors, and nurseries, to ensure smooth communication and project progression.
Meetings: Including consultations and presentations to keep you informed and involved throughout the project, and nursery visits to hand pick specific key plants.
We are committed to delivering a personalised service and expert guidance at every stage of your garden transformation.
A Flexible and Collaborative Approach
Understanding that each garden and client is unique, we offer flexible services tailored to your specific needs and budget. Whether you prefer a comprehensive design and installation package or a simple planting plan to implement at your own pace, we adapt to suit your requirements.