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Medal winning design by Heather Ritter.
Tel: 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. A Garden For Plant Lovers Heather has been working on this garden for several years. The
client hopes to open the garden for the national garden scheme. (yellow book)
" 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
Heather's reputation for creating beautiful gardens is growing year
by year as existing clients return to ask Heather to undertake further work to their gardens.
A large country garden
This large garden required updating and refurbishing. The timber pergola and summerhouse were painted with Cuprinol Garden Shades 'Willow'. Beneath the pergola, a gravel path with paving slabs laid in a random pattern, was installed with an edging of granite setts. A new seating area was designed using sandstone paving and nearby a new planting bed was created featuring trachycarpus fortunei, the windmill palm . Around the garden existing flower beds were extended, reshaped and planted with colourful shrubs, perennials and ground-cover. Heather returns to this garden regularly to continue its development.
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A watercolour masterplan, for the garden of a new house, showing paved seating areas, paths, ornamental features and planting.
A Courtyard Garden
The design brief included a deck, high screening from nearby flats, and most importantly access through the garden, as there was a public right of way, for neighbouring gardens.
A Formal Front Garden
Below: A Small Town Garden A small garden designed for flexible outdoor entertaining. The rotary washing line can be removed to provide an additional seating area for table and chairs. Heather's signature planting includes Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis'.
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)
A Formal Front Garden
A Front Garden with Structure and Form
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 grasses.
Every photograph on this website is taken from one of our gardens or hand-drawn plans. All images are copyright of Heather Ritter. 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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