Budgeting

Your budget for the work is crucial to the design. If you have followed Part 1 of the Methodology, you should have a good idea of want you need. If there are various areas to be landscaped, you may want to prioritise these and decide what sort of budget you assign to each area.
Materials vary massively in cost which is where we can help you. We have an extensive knowledge of the market and through Beautiful Gardens have excellent relationships with local suppliers to help keep material costs down.
Within your budget the garden will need not only a structure or hard landscaping plan of patios, paths etc, but also soft landscaping in terms of planting (plans), trellising, lighting and furnishings.

Decide on all the elements you would like in your garden and make a list giving each item a score out of ten for both necessity and desire. This will give you a very good overall view of which items you should have and which ones actually arent so important for now.

Element:

If something is too expensive now, but you hope to be able to afford it in the future, keep it on your list. Most gardens take years to complete. Otherwise look for more affordable options or do the hard thing and just remove it from the list. If space is a problem (not having enough of it), than look if some areas can be used for double purposes. Storage in winter, greenhouse in the summer, vegetables as foliage, and maybe one sitting area instead of two would be enough with the right kind of furniture.

We can guide you through this process. It is important that the design matches your budget, and there are many means of doing this and still being satisfied with the end result. Staging the work is sometimes a solution, but is not always appropriate. Please contact us to arrange a free, no obligation consultation to assess the garden and your requirements.