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Offering a variety of services including consultations, garden design, and bespoke build, Kate has won various awards for her work as a commercial designer..

“From initial design to implementation Kate’s professional and courteous approach to her work has resulted in a garden designed with flair and imagination, which is both stylish and modern. I am very happy with the result and would not hesitate in recommending her services.”

- Simon Young, Young Hotels

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Hi, I’m Kate.

Kate Elysee Garden Design and Build launched in 1999, and since that time has built up a discerning business working with both the commercial and private sectors, producing prestigious gardens in the Sandbanks, and Canford Cliff areas of Bournemouth and Poole in Dorset as well as the Purbecks and Swanage where Kate is located.

Kate has won various awards from Poole Borough Council for commercial projects and taken part in Art in the Garden for Dorset Arts Week.

'Kate took time to listen to our needs and wants, likes and dislikes and gave us some really good advice taking into account how we wanted to use the garden, colours, ecology, soil conditions, weather, vistas, maintenance and so on. Her gardening plans were extremely detailed and beautifully presented. The result is a garden that we absolutely love and which connects the look and style of our house from the inside to the outside. Every visitor always comments on how wonderful our garden is”

— Monika Barnes 

THE GARDEN DESIGN PROCESS

 

STEP ONE

KATE WILL INITIALLY view a project free of charge, within a 10-mile radius of the office base, outside that range, there is just a fee for fuel. This is a free viewing for approx half an hour.

HERE THE CLIENT CAN discuss their needs and desires for a garden. If a design is required, the space will be surveyed by her team, (for more complicated schemes a surveyor will be brought in).


STEP TWO

INITIAL PLAN  is produced showing proposed areas of hard and soft Landscaping. Once the client has viewed and approved or made adjustments a CONCEPT PLAN is made in 2D, detailing the hard landscaping and areas of planting.

Then a CONSTRUCTION NOTE PLAN is produced from which the landscaper can give a separate quote.


STEP THREE

THE PLANTING PLAN is a separate plan showing existing plants as well as new plants to go in the garden. The number required of each plant, sizes and prices etc, This plan also includes a maintenance sheet.

 

If all the above is agreed with the client, dates would be arranged for the landscaping and then planting.

All site visits are charged a fee and planting can be arranged by Kate and her team. A fee agreed with the client is payable at each stage of the design process.

CONTACT ME

kate@kegd.co.uk


Tel: 01929 421744

Mobile: 0771 426 7764