Crowe Garden Design - Bespoke Garden Design In Essex

Colchester, Britain’s oldest town, nestling on the edge of the Essex Suffolk border is sleeping. Commuters exhausted from their week of travelling into London are recharging their batteries. Silence clothes the town and surrounding countryside. However this garden designer finds the mind a whirr of ideas and thoughts following a busy period of discussing some exciting garden design opportunities. A camera full of site photographs and little black books containing notes, desires and requirements needs to be distilled and refined down into a cohesive whole.

The joy of meeting new clients wishing to have their gardens designed or requiring a new planting plans and planting design is recorded for review. Daylight brings with it the distractions of the day, phone calls, emails or the dog harassing the postman. (Incidentally the postman is a bit too wary, he needn’t be too concerned, the worst that could happen is he is licked to an early grave, or his leg receives a rhythmic warming.) Darkness provides stillness for thoughts and creativity to settle in the glass,

There are other distractions, specifically cold calling to sell. Now we all have to make a living, times are different so each lead needs to be chased. This does not though mean at any cost. Nothing is worse than an aggressive or antagonistic tone or approach on the telephone. Some people simply put the phone down at the merest hint of a cold call. Politeness costs nothing.

Anyway back to the task in hand, reviewing client project requirements. One request has included a large and open entertaining space. Expansive and dramatic a real feature. This is to allow the client to extend their living space out from the house to entertain this summer. No problem there, the scale and proportion for the terrace (or large courtyard) garden in relation to the house works. The problem will be the inclusion of too many materials. At the last count there were six.

Now for dramatic effect reducing the materials used down has a greater impact. Whilst this should not be taken to extreme resulting in runways of slabs alone the overall effect of looking at the wish list and then reducing it down will give a better overall impact. Keep it simple and do it well.

Colchester is still sleeping, but the dawn is approaching, time to prepare for the ‘detail’ of the day ahead. Peace and quiet will be lost to the background noise of life. The ethereal garden designer departs…..

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