Garden designers in Glasgow will typically charge less than garden designers in somewhere like London, but there are a few key guidelines that can help you work things out. For smaller projects up to around £10k construction cost you can expect to pay around 20% (in addition) to the garden designer, and this will drop to around 15% and then 10% as budget increases. Other garden designers and horticultural consultants charge an hourly rate which will start from around £60 per hour. Bear in mind that part of the job of a garden designer is making you savings on materials and ensuring the right plants are chosen first time, so they may well cover their costs as well as provide you with the benefit of their expertise.

How does your garden make you feel? Many factors combine to create the ‘feel’ of a garden, and when garden designers in Glasgow think about this, the rules are of course the same wherever you are. The use of colour in a garden design is one of the key principles that garden designers are guided by. The appropriate combination of colours in a planting plan can make a garden design feel relaxing, striking, exotic, even hot or cold! Colour is created not just by flowers but also by foliage, as well as the non-living elements of your garden such as gravel, fences and walls.

The performance of plants in new garden design projects in Glasgow and beyond is key to the success of the project. Garden designers will always want to see every plant establishing and thriving - this comes down to three key things, good stock, correct planting, and effective aftercare (especially being watered in the days, weeks and months after planting). However, with the best care in the world, garden designers see every day how some plants do better than others, with no obvious reasons. Oftentimes, some plants just seem to take a bit longer to get into their stride.

Horticultural consultants in Glasgow and elsewhere, like garden designers, have a number of different roles within their job. Horticultural consultants will have areas of specialism which may be production or ornamental horticulture, and they will often advise fellow professionals - such as growers and nurseries - or members of the public about their private gardens. Horticultural consultancy may also include invasive weed surveys (such as for japanese knotweed), be that in Glasgow or further afield.

How are your garden plants looking at the moment? Garden designers and horticultural consultants in and around Glasgow are often asked about health issues and general performance of existing garden plants. During lockdown Glasgow enjoyed some sunny dry weather, but normal weather has since resumed, and we have been seeing the spring flush where grass and plants grow at a rapid rate. This doesn’t just apply to your desirable plants, but weeds including invasives like Japanese Knotweed all grow like crazy at this time of year.

Garden designers and landscape gardeners in Glasgow and beyond make a point of choosing the right plant for the right place when they are creating planting plans for their garden designs. One of the many factors that garden designers need to consider is the light conditions that particular plants need to survive or thrive - you will have seen the symbols on plant labels for full sun, part sun or full shade.