For years you have muddled along happily with the garden and not had any doubts about whether it was working. What went wrong? Why did you suddenly feel it was all a mess? What happened?

1. Garden Design Planning - How Can an Expert Help You?
For years you have muddled along happily with the garden and not had any doubts
about whether it was working. What went wrong? Why did you suddenly feel it
was all a mess? What happened?
You start visiting gardens. That was when the rot set it. Why doesn’t my garden
look like this? Why isn’t my garden like something out of a Monet painting?
Or, you have come to gardening fresh, full of enthusiasm and the contents of Uncle
Titmouse’s latest book. Why then does every single thing you put in lie down and
die a painful death. What did you do wrong?
Either of these scenarios means that the time has come to think about getting in a
garden designer. Why? Because of the fact that they are problem solvers. There is
no such thing as a garden that does not have problems; the problems of its soil, its
light, its aspect, its drainage and the problem of what exactly the owner wants the
garden for. This is where the expert comes in.
They also have a profound knowledge of seasonal planting and which plants will
go well together; their three-foot tall asters are not going to be hidden by the six-
foot tall monkshood, as happened last year, nor are their beds suddenly going to
look all bare in August after being so beautiful in July.
What you are getting is the sort of knowledge and expertise that many gardeners
do indeed have, but which takes them many years of trial and error to acquire. The
avoidance of the trial and error method is what getting in the expert is all about.
They do not need to spend these years working out which plant does best where,
which things simply will not grow in this soil or in this part of the world, which
plants complement each other and which ones look dreadful together. They come
with all this expertise and knowledge ready-prepared.
Ah but, you say, garden designers are for those who can afford them, not for me.
Maybe, but have you worked out how much you have already spent on the garden?
How many valuable bulbs that never made it? How many expensive plants that
showed their immediate disgust of the soil by turning pale and wan? How many

2. bags of compost or fertilizer that never produced these vigorous, healthy plants?
How many books, each of which was going to tell you what to do but never quite
did?
The garden designer will give you a design and a planting scheme that will actually
work – they can’t afford not to – their business depends on their reputation. In the
end of the day, it is cheaper than the 20 year trial and error method, it adds value to
your house, and it will give you a stunning garden.
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