Landscaping Solutions

Landscaping Solutions are a professional landscaping and garden design company, providing first class services to clients across Surrey and Greater London. Good customer service, ethical working practices and an excellent eye for detail have led to us winning multiple Royal Horticultural Society and British Association of Landscape Industries awards. We have a particular emphasis on helping garden designers manage and realise their landscape gardening projects and are proud to work closely with a number of prominent members of the Society of Garden Designers.

Garden designers and landscapers are in a unique position. We not only build gardens but bring an enormous pool of knowledge that influences the materials used, the plants chosen.and the wildlife that will visit them. We'll all take our own lessons from these lockdown weeks, but one of the precious things that they've given, rather than taken away from us, is time to think, to reassess and to create intent. One of the most prevalent shared experiences of these weeks seems to be a greater appreciation of Nature, of its therapeutic value and how much we miss it when we cannot access it.

This spring will finally see the introduction of a nationwide plant pot recycling scheme. Launched by the Horticultural Trade Association (HTA) in partnership with renewable energy specialist Ecogen, the scheme will provide the infrastructure for garden centres nationwide to recycle pots and other various plastic plant carrying trays. Garden centres across the country have found it increasingly difficult to find recyclers for their used plastic pots, with some big chain garden centres stopping their pot recycling services all together.

The Woodland Creation Grant, a 13 million tree planting fund, was announced by the Government last week in an attempt to significantly increase planting rates. According to recent figures from the Forestry Commission only 582 hectares of trees were planted last year, resulting in the lowest numbers planted since records began in 1976. Unfortunately the trend has continued well into 2017 as well, with only 63,000 trees planted between January and March of this year. The new funds have been made available through the Woodland Creation Grant, part of the Countryside Stewardship scheme which is a Government initiative set up to tackle these alarming statistics and provide financial incentives to local authorities, farmers and land owners throughout England.

At Landscaping Solutions we work with some of the leading garden designers in the UK. We regard our role as providing a safe pair of hands when it comes to delivering the design, taking worry off the shoulders of both garden designer and householder. This is exactly what we did for Cassandra Crouch with this beautiful space on the edge of Richmond Park, South West London. And while the clients were not particularly keen on gardening, they did want a variety of heights and textures in the planting to create year-round interest.

Do you secretly long for a more Nature-friendly garden but fear the work involved? If you're a garden designer, do you struggle to inject Nature-friendly elements into a brief because of clients fear it will result in an unwelcome workload? A low-maintenance corner of easy-care shrubs and perennials like the scented daphne (in background) and the hellebores in the foreground offer sustenance to insects early in the year. Gardens are many things: a place to relax, to entertain, a play area for the kids, a haven, perhaps just somewhere for the cats to laze in the sun.

A number of recent studies conducted by researchers and health practitioners have concluded that daily contact with nature has a positive and long lasting affect on our mood. The simple act of gardening itself provides substantial human health benefits and not just for your physical health but your mental health too. In short, gardening is good for you. Studies carried out across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East all looked at the effects of daily contact with nature and its long lasting benefits on our health.