Soft Landscaping & Planting

Soft landscaping and garden planting set-off your hard landscaping perfectly. From the moment new garden lawn turf is laid to the gradual maturing of carefully selected planting, the choice of garden plants and trees should harmonise with the other aspects of your garden landscape construction. Depending on the project, soft landscaping elements typically include the following:

• Large or small garden trees
• Ornamental shrubs and garden hedging
• Garden lawns
• Box hedging
• Garden perennials
• Wild grasses and meadow flowers
• Exotics and architectural plants
• Full-size or miniature conifers
• Garden water plants

Contributing to the character of your garden

When combined with hard landscaping, and complemented by carefully designed garden lighting, soft landscaping contributes to unique texture, scent, colour, tactile quality, appearance and year-round garden interest. And where gardens contain water, soft landscaping such as lilies, reed beds, marginal plants and other aquatic plants add another delightful dimension.

A coherent structure

Soft landscaping involves installing topsoil and plants, as well as the carefully positioning architectural garden structures, many of which lend themselves to growth of climbing plants. When tackled logically, by skilled professionals who respect how different landscaping elements work together, soft landscaping results in a coherent structure that will develop and mature beautifully.

Soft landscapers – more than just people who plant plants

When you appoint a professional landscaper you’re investing in more than just the manpower required to position soil and plants. From cottage garden plants to rock garden plants or Japanese garden style plants, a good landscaper, with a strong horticultural training, understands how different trees, shrubs, ferns and flowers work together, how certain trees and shrubs require particular conditions, and how a few specimen plants complement background planting. That’s why we’ll always take time to understand your requirements and the site characteristics before recommending a planting plan. And of course, as well as providing aftercare, pruning guides and other services, we’re always here to answer questions.

Soft landscaping – a constant source of delight

Whether formal or informal, successful soft landscaping reflects underlying balance, structure and purpose. It may be designed to cater for the special needs of the young, elderly or disabled, or be wildlife-friendly to attract birds, butterflies, dragonflies, hedgehogs or amphibians. Whatever its raison d’être, the success of soft landscaping is measured by how it delight users – whatever the season.

For soft landscaping and garden planting, contact us now.