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Landscape Gardening in Hampstead
Transform your Hampstead garden into a beautiful, functional outdoor space. Professional landscape gardening combines design expertise with horticultural knowledge to create gardens that enhance your property.
Landscape Gardening Costs 2025
Design services:
- Initial consultation: Free-£150
- Basic garden plan: £300-800
- Detailed landscape design: £800-2,500
- Full design with 3D visualization: £1,500-5,000
Implementation costs:
- Small garden makeover (up to 50 sqm): £3,000-8,000
- Medium garden (50-150 sqm): £8,000-20,000
- Large garden (150-300 sqm): £20,000-50,000+
- Very large gardens (300+ sqm): £50,000-150,000+
Specific elements:
- Paving/patio (per sqm): £80-200
- Decking (per sqm): £100-180
- Turfing (per sqm): £15-35
- Planting scheme: £500-5,000+
- Water features: £800-15,000
- Garden lighting: £500-5,000
Popular Landscape Projects
Patios and paving:
- Natural stone (sandstone, limestone): £120-200/sqm
- Porcelain paving: £100-160/sqm
- Block paving: £80-140/sqm
- Includes excavation, sub-base, laying, pointing
Decking:
- Softwood (treated): £100-140/sqm
- Hardwood (oak, iroko): £140-220/sqm
- Composite decking: £150-200/sqm
- Includes framework, boards, finishing
Garden walls:
- Brick walls (double skin): £180-300 per linear meter
- Stone walls: £200-400/linear meter
- Retaining walls: £250-500/linear meter (structural)
- Includes foundations, materials, finishing
Planting and borders:
- Border redesign: £500-2,000
- Mature plant installation: £100-500 per plant
- Full planting scheme: £2,000-10,000+
- Soil preparation essential
Design Considerations for Hampstead Gardens
Period properties:
- Traditional design appropriate to house age
- Victorian: Formal layouts, structured planting
- Edwardian: More naturalistic, herbaceous borders
- Contemporary additions must complement
Conservation areas:
- Changes visible from street may need approval
- Tree preservation orders common
- We navigate permissions process
- Understanding of local requirements
London clay soil:
- Heavy, poorly draining
- Requires soil improvement
- Affects plant selection
- Drainage often critical
Mature trees:
- Work around root protection zones
- Maintain established trees
- Shade affects plant selection
- Beautiful feature to enhance
Our Landscape Design Process
1. Initial consultation (free):
- Discuss vision and requirements
- Site assessment
- Budget discussion
- Timeline outline
2. Survey and measure:
- Accurate site survey
- Identify existing features
- Assess levels and drainage
- Note sun/shade patterns
3. Design development:
- Concept sketches
- Material selection
- Planting plans
- Hardscaping layout
4. Detailed design:
- Final plans and specifications
- Itemized costings
- Material samples
- Timeline and phasing
5. Implementation:
- Clear site/demolition
- Groundworks and drainage
- Hardscaping installation
- Planting
- Finishing and cleanup
6. Aftercare:
- Maintenance guidance
- Plant establishment care
- Seasonal adjustments
- Ongoing maintenance (optional)
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*Last updated: January 2025. Landscaping costs vary significantly by design complexity, materials, and site conditions. Quotes provided after consultation.*