Designing a small garden requires just as much skill as a project that extends over several acres – and the talented team at Alaster Anderson are delighted to share our Top 10 Tips for small garden design.
Small Garden Secrets: Considerations for Urban Gardening in London
The quieter winter months are the perfect time to set us to work on designs, costing and ordering for your transformed garden. We’re experts at turning gardens into showstopping works of living art, with sculptural forms and astonishing colour palettes.
Valeria assists Joe, Head of Maintenance, to ensure our client’s gardens look beautiful year-round and are maintained to the highest of standards.
Lee assists Florent, the Operations Director, to ensure all jobs are completed on schedule and to a high standard. I'm always on site, making gardens from the ground up.
Clever use of garden lighting will give you more enjoyment – and more value – from your garden. You can use subtle lighting to create atmosphere and mood for summer nights, and revel in your garden year round through the windows of your home by having it well lit.
Nina joined Alaster Anderson full time after completing a two-year advanced technical extended diploma in horticulture at Sparsholt College – but she'd already impressed the company! She had been working with us part time during her studies.
Designing a small garden requires just as much skill as a project that extends over several acres – and the talented team at Alaster Anderson are delighted to share our Top 10 Tips for small garden design.
The quieter winter months are the perfect time to set us to work on designs, costing and ordering for your transformed garden. We’re experts at turning gardens into showstopping works of living art, with sculptural forms and astonishing colour palettes.
We were pleased to be featured in Chelsea Life and corresponding publications including Mayfair, St Johns Wood and Notting Hill titles. The full article can be read in this blog.
The Alaster Anderson team have returned from a day at the Chelsea Flower Show inspired and excited by a fabulous day out.
My experience means we can create not only an exceptional garden for clients, but guide them as to how best invest their money in their space so that when we have finished they have something truly exciting.
If they are well conceived, hedges with an expert choice of plants and with quality clipping from a skilled maintenance service, they are things of beauty. The equivalent of any garden sculpture, unique to each client and setting a home apart from other properties to the delight of friends and family.
I love to design hedges to create architectural form in a garden. They are there because they are a beautiful piece of sculpture to divide and separate areas, to create rooms and to bring stability to a design.
In a London garden where space is paramount everything we use must do a precise job. Planting in a pot is a great technique for increasing height when access for a taller plant would cause problems
I believe in bonsai crafted to gloriously enhance the landscape rather than just producing functional form – it’s about taking a plant and creating something really special. Instead of a standard over-clipped ball of box.
Selecting plants by hand means we can choose specimens with a unique form, creating a special piece that feels exclusive to the owner and their property, rather than something seen all over London. Instead of the ubiquitous clipped bay or box we love to source different plants.
Pots do not need big specimens to impress, and keeping it simple can be highly effective. Read the second in our series of blogs about planting in pots to see which specimens work particularly well.
Planting in pots is an exciting option in London where buildings are ever-present and clients lack the space available in traditional out-of-town gardens. By planting in pots we can dramatically change the way people feel about their space.
Working with nature every day means that we see and feel the impact that we have on the environment, the team are therefore passionate about sustainability in their professional and personal lives.
As well as a horticulturalist, I am a passionate garden and planting designer and thoroughly enjoy working with other designers. Collaborating to develop a designer’s vision and develop high quality schemes that look great is immensely rewarding.
The key here is, less is more. Great quality plants and materials can create a fantastic instant and sophisticated look. Here we give 4 simple ideas for property developers to create a show garden.