Everywhere you go, garden designers seem to be offering slightly differing advice about this, but if you focus on the seven key principles of garden design, it will help guide you in the direction of fulfilling your aspirations for your garden.

Tom Angel is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and works as a garden designer and landscape gardener. He is both a chartered horticulturist as well as a fully-qualified and award-winning garden designer.

In this era of online deliveries, one area that hasn't kept up so far is the delivery of garden plants. Whilst customers may be used to visiting garden centres and selecting plants for themselves, it is an unfortunate fact of life that often the plants don't make it as they're just not happy in their new home. The benefit of having a planting plan or plant list drawn up, and then delivering the plants for you and providing maintenance instructions is self-evident. Garden designers and landscape gardeners in Glasgow can help with this - and Tom Angel specialises in this area of work.

A planting plan is a document produced as a stand-alone document, or as part of an overall garden design package, that indicates the positions and respective maximum sizes of plants within flowerbeds. Garden designers in Glasgow and elsewhere will often produce planting plans as an alternative to creating a comprehensive garden design, and for some this may represent a more affordable alternative to a full garden design package. Tom Angel is an award-winning garden designer who specialises in creating plans, offering this service nationwide as well as where he is based in Glasgow.

Landscape gardeners can be divided broadly into two categories - hard landscaping and soft landscaping. This applies whether you are looking for a landscape gardener in Glasgow or elsewhere. Hard landscaping deals with the non-living elements of your garden, and soft landscaping the living elements.

Garden designers are in high demand in Glasgow, and whilst in any normal year summer is busy, the consequences of the lockdown have sent garden design demand through the roof. There are not a huge amount of garden designers in Glasgow, so for those that are based here, work is busy at the moment!

As we come out of the Covid-19 lockdown many people are looking to find landscape gardeners in Glasgow and finding that they are booked up until the autumn and beyond. This is for the simple reason that when the suppliers closed, and landscape gardeners suddenly could not get hold of materials, all landscape gardening jobs came to a shuddering halt.