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Heather's Gardens create beautiful landscapes in Kent, Surrey, Sussex and London.
Medal winning design by Heather Ritter.
Tel: 01622 762764 

Heather's Gardens..............West Malling Kent
Heather's Gardens West Malling Kent
Heather's Gardens: Garden Design, Landscaping and Planting Maidstone Kent

Heather's Gardens: Garden Design, Landscaping, Planting,  natural stone, large ceramic and terracotta containers, sculptures (and commissions) bespoke garden furniture, waterfountains with pools, metalwork, statuary, trees, shrubs, perennials, box topiary, clematis and rare plants.

Contact Heather: 01622 762764

Please have a look at our portfolio showing a small sample of gardens that Heather's Gardens have designed.

Please be patient......the photographs may take a few minutes to download.

An Italianate Garden
The brief included an area for dining, no grass and bold planting.

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Olive Trees and columns of Italian cypress
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Dan working hard!
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I visit the site regularly during construction to liase with the landscaper. We have frequent meetings and telephone conversations to discuss progress and any problems we may encounter. I then source, select, order and arrange delivery of trees, plants, top soil, compost and conditioners. The planting is overseen to completion, one of the most enjoyable tasks. I source, select, order and arrange delivery and installation of features such as water fountains, metalwork, planters, lighting and irrigation, essentially, anything required within the garden. I also supply planting advice sheets, giving details of care and pruning.

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Olive Trees
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An Italianate Garden
The Italianate Garden

Palms and Pots
Palms and Pots

Palm tree walk and path of bonded resin
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A Sunny Retreat
A quiet place

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Heather can source, select and arrange delivery of features for the garden. This gate was specially commissioned and designed by Heather for a metal artist to make.

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An Italianate Garden
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A Family Garden
Phase one, the pool garden, has been completed.

Design Plan including Pool Garden
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Heather's Gardens: The Pool Garden
The Pool Garden
Heather's Gardens: Garden Design, Landscaping and Planting Maidstone Kent

The Pool Garden
The Pool Garden

The Pool Garden

A family garden for flexible entertaining, with several seating areas, a timber boardwalk, waterfeature and colourful planting including a large palm tree. Completed in 2002. 

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One of two show gardens, that Heather designed, for a new residential development in Norwich

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Norwich Show Garden Two
Fountain Heather's Gardens

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A front garden with box globes and phormiums

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This design for a small garden of a new house included circles of bonded resin and sandstone paving, all edged with square, silver-grey granite setts. 

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This garden was designed and constructed in 2002 for an elderly client who wanted a garden that she could 'sit in' and enjoy. A mix of evergreen and deciduous shrubs were introduced with colourful perennials to add interest during the spring and summer.

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A plant collectors garden
A mature, 35ft high, beech tree dominated this garden.The soil was very tired and low in nutrients so had to be extensively re-conditioned with soil improvers and fertilizers. When the photographs were taken the garden was only four years old but looking very established. Plants included cardoon, sambucus racemosa 'Sutherland's Gold', phormiums, roses, iris sibirica, penstemon and the highly toxic but highly irresistible 'American pokeweed'

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A Romantic Topiary Garden
Romantic Topiary Garden

A Formal Front Garden
Formal Front Garden

All the plans and photos used in this website are from projects that Heather's Gardens have designed. Heather also supervised the construction and planting of these gardens to final completion. (except for A Romantic Topiary Garden where the hard-landscaping was already in place)



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Allington Garden

Allington Garden
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" I first met Heather through a mutual friend when a large part of our garden was grassed and uneven. For this area she designed the shape for the beds and to fill them came up with a delightful range of planting that has flourished and transformed the area.

Since those days I have found that not only will Heather create wonderful planted areas from scratch but will make brilliant suggestions for developing existing problematic areas in the garden and will respond to my SOS's for advice on plants for specific areas and solutions for problems that may have developed.

Although she has enabled my confidence to grow I depend on Heather for ongoing discussions about the performance of the garden at different times of the year and she will not hesitate to come and help with gardening tasks if needed.

'Gardening Heather' has now become a good and most valued friend and I greatly value her expertise and advice with all aspects of developing and maintaining a garden."

Allington Client

Allington Garden
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Allington Garden
A seating area has been created behind the garage
Completed in 2009

A Front Garden For Wildlife
front garden for wildlife

A Romantic Topiary Garden
Romantic Topiary Garden

A Small Town Garden

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Bournemouth Garden
This garden required updating. New planting beds were formed and a mixture of evergreen and ornamental deciduous shrubs were introduced to provide structure during winter and flowers through spring and summer. The pond had become redundant and so was replaced with pretty, scottish pebbles and Japanese maples. 

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Royal Chelsea
 Flower Show 2003
  - Bronze Medal -

In the nine exhausting days of preparation the site was transformed from a patch of grass to a landscaped stage for any media queen.

Being chosen by The Royal Horticultural Society to install a show garden at The Chelsea Flower Show has been a rewarding experience.

The four days duration of the show saw hordes of visitors, many with different opinions, TV gardener Diarmuid Gavin said he thought it was a nice sense of space with lovely planting, to some the three seater metal settee looked over the top, but that's what Chelsea is about.


Heather's Gardens: Medal Winning Garden Design
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Handpainted watercolours by Fiona Osbaldstone

Chelsea show garden
The Chelsea Flower Show 2003

Heather's Gardens at The Chelsea Flower Show
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Heather's Gardens Medal Winning Show Garden

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Planting of kniphofia, lavender and seaholly
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'A Garden For Pottering' was designed and constructed by Heather's Gardens.
Award Winning Garden Design in Kent.

A garden for pottering
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A Garden For Pottering
A garden for pottering

The Trampoline Garden with sandstone paved terrace
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Curvy Path Of Silver Grey Granite Setts
Trampoline Garden

Tree delivery
Trees arrive

A Formal Front Garden
Formal Front Garden

A Formal Front Garden
Formal Front Garden

Silver Themed Planting
Elaeagnus 'Quicksilver'  Heather's Gardens

A Country Garden
A Country Garden

Norwich garden
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Olive trees

A garden for plant lovers
select planting
Artemisia, sea-hollies and grasses

Sea-hollies are very attractive to bees
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Geranium 'Brookside' is a good value garden plant
Geranium Brookside

The Trampoline Garden Before Work Commenced
Trampoline Garden Before Work Started

The Trampoline Garden Completed
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Curvy Path of Silver-Grey Granite setts

Norwich Garden
Norwich show garden

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Heather can source features for the garden
Fountain Heather's Gardens

Palms and Pots
Palms and Pots

Paul Working Hard!
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The grass stipa tenuissima and geranium 'Brookside
Planting