Working Practically Naturally
We have delivered innovative works of practical beauty, each a ‘one-off’ to compliment our Customer’s garden created by Practical Landscapes.
The formal style is especially suited to the gardens of old houses, those planned for a lifestyle less casual than ours.If you can find old pictures of the original house and 
garden, you'll probably find that it was very formal in layout and planting, especially if the house itself was symmetrical in design.
Cottage gardens are the opposite of formal gardens: Cottage gardens were small and flowers had to share the space with vegetables and herbs. It's hard to clearly define the one quality that makes a garden romantic. It can be the location for instance; a tiny city garden shaded by a single tree with a seat where you 
can sit and listen to a splashing water feature can be romantic, so can a tropical garden with palms silvered by the moonlight; or it can be a garden where the plants themselves create the mood, like a beautiful rose garden.
We are here to help you create your ‘look’.
Water Conscious Gardens
Formal gardens or rambling creations, the ideal is the marriage of your ideas of the design and the practical advice that we combine to make a recipe that is yours. The skill required delivering quality gardens, the attention to detail and inclusion of water consciousness, irrigation and correct drainage is ours to ensure your garden remains your place of beauty in the future.
Formal Gardens
Stacked slate walls and slate paving combine to give a pleasing to the eye yet practical, low maintenance garden surround: This space combines the beauty of a courtyard with the openness of more casual style. We use only recognised and trusted suppliers of 
natural stone and hand-selected the material to be used in our projects. The Iceberg Roses; long-term beauty: Formal does not always mean grand and imposing.
Class Act
Camellias & cut slate, beautiful clean lines, neat well-pointed joints. Pride in workmanship and the best of the skills of the paviour's craft and the experience of a Practical Gardener, an irrigated garden to deliver a long lasting, beautiful garden and leisure area. Watering is important, this automated drip system is practical yet not expensive.
Combining Old and New
Ancient Japanese beauty and some imagination, from Practical Landscapes, an unimaginative narrow space usually left to the ‘wheelie bins’ becomes a charming garden, which when illuminated at night becomes the conversation piece of the dining room behind. There will always be a sense of careful balance in a formal or oriental garden.