Landscapers for full garden makeovers
We take tired, sloping or overgrown gardens and rebuild them: new levels, patios and paths, lawns, walls, fencing and decking. One team does the hard landscaping from first dig to final clean, across Dorset, Hampshire, south Wiltshire and West Sussex.
- Layout planned with you on site
- Every part priced separately
- Levels, drainage and walls handled
- Waste cleared and taken away
- Free site visitMeasured and quoted in writing
- Fully insuredPublic liability cover on every job
- Itemised quotesEvery stage priced separately
- Bournemouth basedWorking across the south
Everything we build in a garden
Pick one thing or have the whole garden done. Most of our jobs are a mix.
Paving and paths
Patios, clay paver and sandstone paths, stepping stones and edging.
Lawns
New turf on prepared, levelled ground, or artificial grass on a proper base.
Walls and levels
Retaining walls, raised beds, rendered planters and steps for sloping gardens.
Fencing
Closeboard and panel fencing on concrete or timber posts, and gates.
Decking
Composite and timber decks on a level sub-frame, with lighting set in.
Edging
Steel, stone, brick or timber edges that keep lawn out of the beds and paths sharp.
Sleepers and raised beds
Oak or concrete sleepers for raised beds, low retaining walls and steps.
Planting
Shrubs, perennials, grasses and trees chosen for the soil, the sun and how much care you want to give.
Features and lighting
Water features, pergolas, fire pits and seating, with low deck and wall lights wired in.
A full rebuild of a large sloping garden
One of our biggest jobs: a steep back garden turned into terraces you can actually use.
The garden fell away from the house and was mostly rough ground. We dug it out into levels, built block retaining walls and rendered them, then laid pale porcelain terraces linked by steps.
Up top, a composite deck runs along a frameless glass balustrade, cut round a mature tree and lit with low recessed lights. Two hot tubs were lifted in by crane over the house. Lower down there is a garden room, a striped lawn, and a buff clay paver path running under oak pergola frames with lavender either side.
- Dig out, levels and block retaining walls
- Porcelain terraces, steps and rendered planters
- Composite deck, glass balustrade and lighting
- Garden room, lawn, clay paver path and pergola
The soft side of a garden, built on the same proper base
Lawns, edges and beds are where a cheap garden job shows within a year. Here is what we do differently.
Turf and artificial grass
Turf is only as flat as the soil under it. We strip the old lawn or weeds, rotovate, pick out stones and roots, then level and firm the ground and rake in a pre-turf fertiliser. The rolls go down with staggered joints, butted tight, and get rolled and watered in. Artificial grass needs a firmer base than people expect: a compacted sub-base, a sharp sand or grano dust layer and a membrane, fixed to a timber or steel edge so it never ripples. More on our artificial grass installation.
- Ground stripped, rotovated, levelled
- Staggered joints, rolled in
- Seed if you prefer, same prep
- Artificial grass on a real sub-base
Edging, sleepers and raised beds
Without a solid edge, grass creeps into the beds, gravel spills onto the lawn and paths lose their line. Edging goes in as steel (galvanised, or Corten that rusts to a warm brown on purpose), stone, brick or setts, or treated timber, with brick and stone set in concrete. Oak or concrete sleepers build raised beds, low retaining walls and simple steps. For anything holding back more than a knee-high bank, we would build a block retaining wall instead.
- Steel, Corten, stone, brick, timber
- Oak or concrete sleepers
- Raised beds at a comfortable height
- Proper walls for bigger banks
Planting, water features and pergolas
We plant shrubs, perennials, grasses and trees picked for your soil and how much sun the garden gets, with evergreen structure so the beds are not bare in winter. Features get built in with the rest of the job, so the cables and pipes are laid before the paving goes down. We plan the layout with you on site, around anything worth keeping: a good tree, an old wall, a pond.
- Planting for soil and aspect
- Water features and wall spouts
- Oak pergolas and seating
- Fire pits and low lighting
Decks built on a level frame, lit for the evening
Composite and timber decks on treated joists, cut round trees and finished with lights set into the boards and benches.
How a garden job runs
Visit and plan
We walk the garden with you, take levels and talk through what you want to use it for.
Itemised quote
Each part priced on its own: clearance, walls, paving, lawn, fencing, waste.
Build
Clear, dig and set levels first, then walls and paving, then lawns and finishing.
Walk round
We clean up, walk round the finished garden with you and fix anything you are not happy with.
Landscaping questions
How much does a full garden makeover cost?
How long does a garden renovation take?
Do you design the garden too?
Turf or artificial grass?
Can you work around existing trees and features?
Do you take the waste away?
Talk to us about your garden
Tell us what you would like the garden to do for you. We will come out, take levels and send you a written quote with each part priced on its own.