In the course of a mere few months, Chris and his team turned an overgrown horse field into a wonderful garden, full of wildflowers, with a few fruit and ornamental trees, a largish field of grass and a small mound in the middle.
Chris and his team are competent and versatile gardeners. They plant and landscape things, of course, but they are also ready and able to construct a gazebo, pave patios and do a range of other things. The work has been outstanding, and the result is there to last.

Chris thinks creatively and finds solutions to risks and obstacles (and a stony horse field presents a few of those!). He is not merely concerned with today’s looks but also cares about the environmental footprint of gardening, and about the durability and the ease of long-term maintenance. He thought of an underground drip irrigation system for the hedges, for example: it minimises water wastage, and is invisible, easy to use and durable.

Chris is reliable, honest and a pleasure to work with. He is also relatively new to large-scale end-to-end gardening projects, and his cost estimates turned out to be unrealistic. All in all, I ended up paying 50% more than we had originally agreed on, and that was after dropping a few bits of the original plans. This was disappointing, but easier to swallow because it was obviously not the result of trickery or wastage. Instead, Chris had underbudgeted for the ever-costlier plants and trees and other inputs, and had underestimated the magnitude of some of the tasks. I don’t think anybody else could have done a better job, or a comparable job for less money.