I will repeat myself. The designs are yours to do with what you want. Unless you signed a contract that stated they would do the designs AND the finished product (which would be very unusual). The designs look very simple. If you are happy with them take them to a couple of landscapers to price up. Unless there are hidden costs like extensive drainage or extensive clearing of the site or a steep slope, you should be able to do all that for £15k and a lot less. One tip - do the planting yourselves. Most of the profit is in the planting!
A lot of designers use a lot of Marshall products because they are widely available, reasonably priced and stock a good range. It is not a reflection on the skill of a particular garden designer.
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... A lot of designers use a lot of Marshall products because they are widely available, reasonably priced and stock a good range. It is not a reflection on the skill of a particular garden designer.
Absolutely Marshalls products are fine ... they'll also do the design for you and work out exactly how many of which products you need.
The guy who laid my drive and paths did a great job at a reasonable price. He did have a tendancy to ring up at 11pm steaming drunk and ranting about his ex wife though. and he couldn't work in the cold which would have been fine if it hadn't have been February. He did always call to say he wouldn't be able to make it though but as I said it would have been late night calls and I couldn't always tell what he was saying. He had a bloke who worked with him who could work in the cold but couldn't make it the job without a lift from the other fella. I was chatting to him after they finished and it turns out he lived 2 streets away from my house. Let me know if you want their number
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'd DIY it, or pay friends/family for those kinds of figures. I'd expect glacial boulders balanced upon one anotherr, with an orchid picked and walked from the furthest far flung place on earth for 70k.
Your plans look like hard landscaping, I'm sure you could get many to do that, then as someone else said, go to town and have fun choosing plants.
Hi Lyla, There's no way that's £70k of work for those two designs. I would guess about £15-20k max based on various work we've had done. I paid £9k for one man, 6 weeks work to get a tiny digger in, remove a retaining wall and about 4 tons of soil and then terrace the slope with three levels, paved in Indian sandstone (paid by us separately) and then he paved right round the house, including some steps. It was a brilliant job by a guy who really loved his craft and took a great pride in his work. Admittedly this was 10 years ago so prices have gone up. Last year I paid £650 for a local gardening social enterprise (one supervisor, 2-3 workers) to dig out part of slope, build a retaining wall with sleepers and chucked the soil back in with added manure. They then levelled a path at the foot of the sleepers, laid landscape fabric and put down nearly a ton of purple slate chippings. They did it all by hand and couldn't use a wheelbarrow as we have steps. They too did a pretty good job. The price included the materials and it took 2 days.
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The designs look very simple. If you are happy with them take them to a couple of landscapers to price up. Unless there are hidden costs like extensive drainage or extensive clearing of the site or a steep slope, you should be able to do all that for £15k and a lot less.
One tip - do the planting yourselves. Most of the profit is in the planting!
A lot of designers use a lot of Marshall products because they are widely available, reasonably priced and stock a good range. It is not a reflection on the skill of a particular garden designer.
https://www.marshalls.co.uk/homeowners/free-garden-patio-and-driveway-design-tools
Easy peasy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Your plans look like hard landscaping, I'm sure you could get many to do that, then as someone else said, go to town and have fun choosing plants.