Services

Landscape Design

Living Rooms specialise in creating, beautiful and easy to maintain gardens to match your lifestyle and your budget. Whether you are after an outdoor area to entertain family and friends or just somewhere to sit and relax, we can help you add a unique "living room" to your home.

Every Living Rooms design is presented in clearly set out, easy to read drawings and specifications that show you or your professional landscaper exactly where each wall, planter box, pot, paved area, deck and plant will go.
Understanding the special needs of children, pets, allergy sufferers and the needs of the plants themselves is critical to making a garden safe, easy to maintain and beautiful. To find the balance needed for a truly great design you must be both a talented designer and an experienced Horticulturist. Fortunately, when you are working with Living Rooms Landscape Designs you get both.

Garden Renovations

Eventually every garden needs to undergo a rejuvenation or renovation process. Some plants go passed their "use by dates" whilst others grow and change shape to form new areas of light and shade. All of these changes mean that a garden can eventually outgrown its original design and require some attention in order to look its best.
Living Rooms Landscape Designs can help guide you through the renovation process by:
  • Developing a renovation plan that is in keeping with garden function and site peculiarities - soil type, aspect and slope etc.
  • Identifying those plants that have outlived their role and those that can be moved or pruned to fulfil a new role
  • Replacing sun-loving plants with those that prefer shade in mature areas of the garden
  • Restoring colour and interest to the garden with the use of focal plants, sculpture and hard landscaping features
  • Returning vitality to trees, shrubs, beds and lawns by using appropriate fertilizers and mulching techniques
  • Designing or modify an existing irrigation system to suit the needs of the plants being watered

Horticultural Consulting and Problem Solving

Is something not quite right in your garden?

Living Rooms' qualified horticulturist Lisa Ginns has over a decade of experience in the combined fields of Landscape Design, Landscape Construction and Landscape Maintenance and can help you to solve almost any problem in your garden.
Lisa can combine any of the following techniques with her extensive horticulture and general knowledge to identify and resolve problems in your garden:
  • Pest and disease identification and management
  • Site analysis - including slope and aspect assessment
  • Soil analysis - including pH testing and soil composition analysis
  • Plant species selection to suit your garden
  • Plant maintenance and management - including pruning, fertilizing and watering
  • Irrigation system testing and re-design

Lisa can also help you by preparing a garden management plan that sets out a calendar and schedule of activities that should be undertaken to keep your garden at its best.