Planting design for beauty and climate
Drought-tolerant planting design, London.
Planting design
Planting design is the professional service of creating plant communities that are right for your soil, environmental conditions, aspect and lifestyle. The MHGD planting design service is for landscapers and developers and individual homeowners globally.
My service incorporates textures, colour, space, void, mass and height alongside style and taste.
The Melanie Hicks Garden Design planting design service offers a complete service with landscapers brought in to plant.
I source, procure, inspect and place plants.
You will receive:
Planting consultation
plant list
planting plan
3D visualisations of how the planting will appear
Simply supply a survey or measurements for your planing area, or we can manage an expert 3rd party surveyor to provide this for you.
Full planting design service
The Melanie Hicks Garden Design full planting design service is conducted by Melanie. This is everything you need to get a beautiful garden after it has been landscaped.
The process includes brief-taking, meeting online or on site, and brief sign off by you.
You will receive:
A plant list for your garden that responds to the brief you will be sent and agree to
A planting plan - a plan with a series of circles denoting where each plant should be placed.
3D computer graphic visualisations to represent how your planting could look.* *please note these are impressions only and cannot be species specific.
Minimalist planting design, rooftop, London.
All Notes :
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