When planning an expensive home improvement or self-build project it’s easy to focus on the house and forget the surrounding landscape. Cost often plays a big factor in this — you might be working to a tight budget, and decide to chalk landscaping up to a job that you’ll do later down the line. But when the build is finished you’re then left with an empty mass staring you in the face through your brand-new glazing.
Here’s where a landscape designer or landscape architect comes in. Yes, it’s another investment, but you may decide that factoring the landscaping into your costs now could pay dividends down the road. “Without a doubt, an experienced and knowledgeable landscaper designer will add value in many ways — and that can be from clever use of the initial budget for implementation through to creating durability and resilience in terms of material and plant choices,” says landscape designer/architect, Joe Perkins ( ). “Ultimately a well-designed and executed garden will be one you don’t
