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If you’d like to schedule a discovery call for any of my garden design services, please get in touch, leaving your email address and a phone number I can reach you on. Please include as much information as possible to help build a picture of what you are looking for.
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Email: Lucy@outfrontdesigns.co.uk
Business Hours: 9am-3pm Monday to Friday
FAQs - Seasonal Window Box Service
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If you’ve not got a window box already, I usually have a supply of Ecopots containers that I am happy to plant up and sell to you.
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I’m happy to plant up your container for you, providing it’s a minimum 17cm deep from front to back, and 17cm high. The larger the container, the greater the potential planting depth, supporting the plants for a greater amount of time.
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Your window sill will need to be able to accommodate a container that is at least 17cm deep (from front to back). If that’s not possible, how about a ‘welcome pot’? This is a large floor-standing pot(s) that can make a wonderful statement at your front door. Please get in touch if you are interested in this service.
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If you’re planning to install the window boxes above ground on a first-floor window sill or higher, you will need to do this yourself. I can deliver them to your door. You must take responsibility for it being secure.
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Please note that delivery is limited to E10, E11, E17. If you’re outside these areas but would like to order from me, please get in touch.
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I’ve heard this too. But after five years of delivering window boxes to customers across Walthamstow, Wanstead, Leyton and Leytonstone, not a single customer has had this experience.
My personal philosophy is that I’d rather take the risk & try and create the world I want to live in.
FAQs - Garden & Planting Design
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The design phase usually takes around 2-4 months. The speed is determined by the challenges the site may present, and client availability to engage in the process.
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This varies from project to project, depending on the time taken to complete it. I prepare a Fee Proposal for all projects broken down step-by-step so that you can see exactly where my time and your money will go.
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This is such a big question, and of course costs will vary depending on the size, scale, complexity, materials specified and so on. I will always draft a design with your budget in mind. Another approach is to come up with a masterplan for your garden that can be implemented over time as funds become available. The gardens I have designed to date have cost between £10,000 to £35,000 to implement.
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I’m always surprised how much I am asked this! No, I don’t do any hard landscaping myself. Instead, having designed the space, I can share a list of local contractors who you can approach to implement the design. Thus you will have a separate contract with me, from that with the landscapers.
I’m more than happy to talk with the appointed landscapers, briefing them on the design, resolving any issues that may arise, and offer a project inspection role to ensure that the design is being implemented faithfully. -
I hold both professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
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I am a Friend of the Society of Landscape and Garden Designers, and have been so since gaining my Diploma. I find it a valuable source of information.
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I love learning and enjoy reading and attending events. I take Gardens Illustrated magazine, and the journal of the SGLD. I attend events when I can such as the London Gardens Network conference, the SGLD Conference, and smaller, more local events such as GroundLevel. And I always love a garden visit!
FAQs - About Lucy
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I hold a Level 3 Diploma in Garden Design, awarded in 2020 after studying at renowned horticultural college Capel Manor. Through the course I studied spatial design (what goes where), learned hundreds of plant names (building on those I already knew), how to conduct a site survey and analysis, all about hard landscape materials, plant form, shape and texture, and lots more.
I also hold an NVQ in photography. Academically I have achieved the following higher education qualifications.
MA with merit, Cultural History, Memory and Identity | University of Brighton | Jan 2013
BA Hons, African & Caribbean Studies | University of Kent at Canterbury | July 1996
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I’ve been interested in gardens for a long time, I just didn’t know it! I have a keen memory of the overpowering scent of sweet peas on the night air, having returned from holiday, as a child. I thought it was marvellous.
Friends reminded me that I had drawn a plan for their garden on the back of an envelope some years before I studied garden design. And whenever I visited a friend’s home, it was always the garden that I wanted to see! Somehow that love was there, under the surface, just waiting for the right time to express itself.
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My own garden is the first that I designed, while I was doing my garden design course. It’s a regular Walthamstow terrace, about 6m wide and 9m long. What started as a plan to replace the shed, experienced mission creep! At first the garden looked incredibly bare as the raised beds went in, but as the plants have filled out and established themselves, it’s a veritable hug of a garden and I love it. My only wish is to spend more time caring for it.
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The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St Ives is probably my all-time favourite garden. The combination of the location, the sculptures by the incredibly inspiring Barbara Hepworth, and the planting, is perfect. I’m also a big fan of the garden at The Hepworth Wakefield. And I remember fondly visiting the garden on Lindisfarne designed by Gertrude Jekyll. The low walls around create a micro-climate, and reassuring sense of enclosure.
My parents’ garden in Dorset where I was lucky to grow up, backs on to a large field. That experience of an expanse of green will never leave me.
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