Garden Design & Landscaping Studio

Gardens that
breathe with you.

From the first sketch to the final stone, Verdant Landscapes designs and builds lush, considered outdoor spaces — natural-stone terraces, layered planting and gardens that mature beautifully through every season.

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★★★★★ 4.9 / 5 from 180+ garden owners across the Cotswolds
A beautifully landscaped garden glowing at golden hour with layered planting and a stone path
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Designing & Building
RHS-trainedplantspeople
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What We Do

From bare ground to
a garden you'll never leave

A single studio for the whole journey — design, hard landscaping, planting and the gentle, ongoing care that lets a garden settle into its best self.

Garden Design

Bespoke, hand-drawn designs that read your site, your light and your life — then turn them into a space that feels inevitable.

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Paving & Stone

Natural-stone terraces, porcelain patios, paths and steps — laid by craftsmen to last generations, not seasons.

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Planting Schemes

Painterly, year-round planting designed by RHS-trained plantspeople — soft, resilient and alive with pollinators.

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Water Features

Reflective pools, rills and naturalistic ponds that bring sound, light and wildlife into the heart of the garden.

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Decking & Structures

Hardwood decks, pergolas, garden rooms and screens — warm timber forms that frame the view and the seasons.

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Garden Care

Thoughtful seasonal maintenance — pruning, feeding, lawns and borders — keeping your garden at its considered best.

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A modern garden transformation with timber decking, lush borders and a reflective water feature
Whole-garden buildsDesign to planting, one studio
The Verdant Way

We don't tidy gardens. We compose them.

A great garden is more felt than seen — the way light falls across a terrace at six o'clock, the brush of grasses against a path, the quiet of water nearby. Every Verdant project begins with how you want to live outdoors.

  • Designed to mature

    We plant for the garden you'll have in five years, not just the photo on handover day.

  • Built by our own team

    No subcontractor shuffle — the people who draw your garden are the people who build it.

  • Naturally minded

    Permeable surfaces, rainwater planting and habitat for wildlife are woven in from the start.

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Gardens we've grown into place

Landscaped garden at golden hour with deep borders
Modern garden with water feature
Natural stone patio with lush planting
Friendly landscaper with tools in a garden
Layered planting scheme
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How It Works

Four seasons, one calm process

01

Listen & Walk

We visit, walk the ground with you and learn how you want the garden to feel and function.

02

Design

Hand-drawn concepts, planting palettes and a clear, honest budget — refined until it sings.

03

Build

Our craftsmen set out levels, lay stone, shape beds and install structures with quiet precision.

04

Plant & Settle

We plant, mulch and hand over — then return through the year to help your garden establish.

Rowan Aldridge, founder and lead garden designer at Verdant Landscapes, holding tools
Rowan AldridgeFounder & Lead Designer
Meet the Studio

"A garden should feel like it was always meant to be there."

Rowan founded Verdant eighteen years ago with a wheelbarrow, a borrowed van and a stubborn belief that landscaping is a craft, not a commodity. Today the studio is a small, tight-knit team of designers, stonemasons and plantspeople who care about the difference a good edge makes.

We take on a handful of gardens at a time, so yours gets the attention it deserves — from the angle of a single step to the exact blue of a delphinium border in June.

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Kind Words

Loved by garden owners across the Cotswolds

★★★★★
"They turned a sloping, soggy patch of lawn into the most beautiful room of our house. Two summers on, the borders look like they've been there forever."
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Helena & Marcus P.Full garden · Broadway
★★★★★
"The stonework is genuinely exquisite. Every level, every joint considered. Neighbours keep stopping to ask who laid our terrace."
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David NwosuStone terrace · Chipping Campden
★★★★★
"Calm, honest and quietly brilliant from first sketch to final plant. Rowan's team listened more than they talked — and got it exactly right."
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Freya LindqvistDesign & planting · Stow
From the Journal

Notes from
the potting shed

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Let's Begin

Your garden is waiting to be grown

Book a free, no-obligation site visit. We'll walk the ground with you, talk through ideas and send a clear plan and budget — no pressure, just possibility.

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