Landscape Gardener Medway

Decide what the finished garden should make easier

Start with the activities the garden needs to accommodate: sitting outside, children playing, reaching a shed, moving bins or maintaining planted areas. Identify features that already serve you well. Keeping a useful tree, border or path can shape the new layout as much as choosing a new patio.

Photographs from the house and a rough measured sketch help explain priorities. Include door swings, furniture and everyday walking routes. A compact garden can benefit from a carefully placed terrace without losing its lawn or planting, while a larger site may need distinct areas linked together.

Make your Medway address part of the brief

State the town and postcode, whether the property is in Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham, Strood or another Medway address. Show the route from the delivery point to the work area, including side passages, stairs, gates and shared access. The regional name alone does not describe those conditions.

Record changes in level and the areas that stay wet or shaded. Ground and exposure vary between properties, so the proposal needs assessment at your garden. Explain any access that must remain available during work and which plants or existing features should be protected.

Plan the sequence across paving, lawns and boundaries

A fence, terrace and new lawn meet through shared levels and edges. Agree their positions before ordering separate materials. Post foundations, water routes and any buried services need consideration before the final surface makes them harder to reach.

If the garden will be improved in stages, identify the eventual layout and what the first phase must leave ready. This can help avoid moving material through a newly laid lawn or reopening completed paving. Ask where drawings, structural assessment or other specialist work are required in the proposed scope.

Choose a landscaper through the scope and documented work

Maintenance visits and landscape construction are different services. An hourly gardening rate does not tell you the installed price of a deck, patio or wall. Compare written quotations covering the same clearance, preparation, materials, installation and finishing.

Look at genuine projects, ask how access and changes will be managed, and clarify exclusions, VAT and handover. Our Strood porcelain patio and sleeper-planter project is a documented Medway example. The wider portfolio retains the real location of each project so you can compare relevant features with confidence.

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