Garden Design in Hertfordshire
I am David Boothman, an RHS Chelsea Award Winning garden designer creating bespoke gardens across Hertfordshire and the Chilterns. I design gardens inspired by the local landscape and surroundings which make the most of the available space and have a strong connection to the local setting. My naturalistic planting style creates beautiful, resilient gardens with year-round interest for everyone to enjoy.
From a complete garden redesign to a new garden planting scheme or masterplan, I’ll work with you to create an outdoor space that suits your home, lifestyle and budget.
Garden design shaped around your lives
Every garden has its own conditions and possibilities. I take time to understand how you want to use the space, how it relates to your home and what makes its setting distinctive. The design may include places to relax and entertain, considered planting, paths and terraces, or ways to make a sloping or challenging site work better.
My favoured approach often combines naturalistic planting, resilient plant choices which are adapted to the changing climate and thoughtful use of hard landscaping. The balance depends on your brief and the character of your garden.
Complete range of Garden Design Services
Full garden design
A joined-up design for your garden, from the initial brief and layout through to detailed plans and planting, selection of landscaper and project build monitoring.
Planting re-design
One of the most cost effective ways to upgrade your garden is by carrying out a planting re-design. A new tailored planting scheme brings colour, structure and seasonal interest to all or part of your garden.
Garden masterplans
A long-term plan for the whole garden, which you can put in place in stages. Often chosen where clients want to build the garden in stages but want to make sure they have a clear plan and sense of direction.
Planning scheme support
Landscape design and supporting documents for relevant planning applications.
Selection of Gardens designed and built across Hertfordshire
A 400sqm drought tolerant, naturalistic, wrap around gravel garden for a home in a historic Chilterns village. The client brief was a low maintenance, year round interest garden which would become a haven for insects and wildlife.
A 200sqm steeply sloping garden transformed into a set of 3 terraces each with a specific use and purpose. The orangery leads out onto a modern entertainment terrace immersed in naturalistic perennial planting.
A family garden transformed into a modern, drought tolerant, gravel garden with flowing, naturalistic planting and a bespoke water pool, oak pergola & dual function greenhouse with distinct areas to enjoy the sun across the day.
A proven and clear process from our first conversation
We’ll begin by discussing what you’d like from your garden; the things you like today and the things you’d like to change or add. I’ll create a clear brief which will become the starting point for the design. From there, the process will often include a site survey, followed by design proposals. Once we have agreed a design direction you love I will draw up the detailed landscaping plans and planting design. We are then ready to assign contractors and get the garden quoted and built. The process is tried and tested and proven to deliver your dream garden.