Planting Plan

What is a Planting Plan?

A Planting Plan shows all plants by variety, their position and numbers, as well as their final spread in the garden. This is your working document if you are planning to do the planting yourself. The process involves a visit to discuss any particular requirements (plants you especially love, planting styles, features within the garden to enhance or hide through considered planting) and to assess the site for plant suitability. Borders are measured and existing plants worth keeping are recorded. The finished plan is sent to you in the post.

Planting plans are priced individually and quotes are free.

Exposed gardens

The owners of this garden are away during July and August and so the brief was to provide interest for the remaining months. The garden is on the edge of Dartmoor and in a very exposed site. Tough tree species were planted to provide protection from wind and frost rolling off the moor. For a new border I chose early and late summer flowering perennials, with seed heads and stem colour providing winter interest, along with plenty of bulbs for spring and autumn cheer.

A set of granite steps was softened with cultivars of Hemerocallis and Asters which I've found to be almost bomb-proof in these often challenging locations! I also used the moorland native, white flowering stonecrop to grow between the steps.

Planting plan for an exposed border in a garden on Dartmoor

A mature bed in an exposed Dartmoor garden.

Granite Steps

The finished, mature border in early summer

Planting around granite steps