Garden Design in Windsor.

Yes, working alongside heritage specialists where the design touches the listed fabric itself — a wall attached to the building, for instance — while the planting and ordinary hard landscaping usually sit outside that consent process entirely. We establish which parts of a scheme are affected at the design consultation and say plainly where the line falls, rather than assuming the whole garden needs consent because the house does.

By putting drainage before planting in the design sequence rather than after. On plots around Datchet and Old Windsor we test how the ground actually drains at survey, then choose a planting palette and lawn build-up that tolerates a wet winter instead of fighting it, with any structural drainage — channel drains, raised beds, French drains — designed in from the first concept rather than added once a border has failed a season.

Often, and usually for the better once the design works with them rather than around them. Established gardens near the town centre and Eton frequently carry protected or simply well-grown trees, and we identify root protection areas at survey so paths, terracing and new planting are positioned to leave them undisturbed, which nearly always reads better than a design that has clearly fought the garden it was given.

Yes, and on the larger riverside and heritage plots it is often the sensible route. We design the full scheme upfront so no later phase is compromised, then build hard landscaping and drainage first, with planting and finishing touches following — which spreads both the cost and the disruption to a listed or conservation-area property across a timeframe that suits the household rather than the invoice.