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Medal winning design by Heather Ritter.
Tel: 01622 762764
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Contact Heather: 01622 762764
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Please have a look at our portfolio showing a small sample of
gardens that Heather's Gardens have designed. An Italianate Garden
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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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.
A Family 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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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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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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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)
" 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
Below: 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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The 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.
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