Transform, refresh or improve your garden with professional soft landscaping from Lee’s Garden Services.
Soft landscaping focuses on improving the appearance and usability of your outdoor space through planting, lawns, beds, borders and other landscaping features.
Whether you’re starting with a blank canvas, refreshing a tired garden or want to transform a particular area, we can provide practical soft landscaping solutions tailored to your garden.
Our services include garden planting, flower beds and borders, raised beds, aggregate and gravel beds, shrub and hedge planting, turfing, re-turfing and general garden improvements.
Contact us to discuss your ideas and arrange a free, no-obligation quote.
What Is Soft Landscaping?
Soft landscaping covers many of the features that bring colour, texture, structure and character to a garden.
Our soft landscaping services can be used to completely change the appearance of an outdoor space or simply improve a particular area.
Services can include:
- Garden planting
- Flower beds and borders
- Raised garden beds
- Aggregate and gravel beds
- Decorative stone areas
- Shrub planting
- Hedge planting
- Seasonal planting
- Preparation of planting areas
- Improving existing borders
- Turfing
- Re-turfing
- Lawn replacement
- General soft landscaping improvements
We’ll discuss what you’d like to achieve before recommending an appropriate approach for your garden.
Aggregate & Gravel Beds
Aggregate beds can transform tired, difficult or unused areas of a garden into attractive, practical spaces.
We create new aggregate and gravel beds using decorative stone or other suitable aggregates to provide a clean, finished appearance.
Aggregate beds can work particularly well around planted areas, alongside lawns and in parts of the garden where you want an attractive alternative to grass or traditional planted borders.
Creating a good aggregate bed involves more than simply spreading gravel over the ground.
Depending on the existing area and what has been agreed, the work may involve:
- Clearing the existing area
- Removing unwanted vegetation
- Preparing and levelling the ground
- Creating or defining the bed
- Installing a suitable weed-suppressing membrane where appropriate
- Preparing areas for planting
- Laying decorative aggregate or gravel
- Finishing and tidying the surrounding area
The preparation required will depend on the existing ground and the finish you’d like to achieve.
Decorative Aggregates
There are many different types, sizes and styles of decorative aggregate available, allowing the finished area to complement the rest of your garden.
Depending on the project, aggregate can be used to create:
- Decorative gravel beds
- Low-maintenance garden areas
- Gravel planting beds
- Areas around shrubs and plants
- Decorative garden features
- Borders and defined garden areas
- An alternative finish for areas that are difficult to maintain
We’ll discuss the type of appearance you’re looking for before the work begins.
If you’re unsure which style of aggregate would suit your garden, we can discuss the options when we visit.
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Raised Garden Beds
Raised beds are a practical and attractive way to introduce dedicated planting areas into your garden.
They can provide additional structure, help define different parts of the garden and create an attractive feature for flowers, shrubs, herbs or other suitable planting.
We can create raised garden beds as part of a soft landscaping project or as a standalone garden improvement.
Depending on your requirements, the work can include preparing the area, installing the raised bed, filling it with suitable soil or growing medium and preparing it ready for planting.
Raised beds can be particularly useful where you want to:
- Create clearly defined planting areas
- Add structure to a garden
- Introduce additional planting
- Improve an unused or tired area
- Make planting areas easier to access
- Create a feature within the garden
- Grow flowers, herbs or other suitable plants
We can discuss the size, position and intended use of the raised bed when we visit your property.
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Garden Planting
The right planting can completely transform an outdoor space.
Plants can introduce colour, texture, structure and seasonal interest while helping different areas of the garden work together.
We provide garden planting for existing and new beds and borders, whether you’re looking to refresh a small area or make more substantial changes to your garden.
We’ll consider the existing garden and growing conditions when discussing suitable planting.
Factors such as sunlight, shade, soil, available space and the eventual size of plants can all influence what will work well in a particular location.
We aim to create planting that suits both your garden and the appearance you’d like to achieve.
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Flower Beds & Garden Borders
Tired, empty or overgrown borders can make an otherwise attractive garden look unfinished.
We can help prepare, improve and plant flower beds and garden borders to give your outdoor space more colour, structure and interest.
Depending on the existing condition of the area, work can include clearing and preparing beds, improving existing planting areas and introducing new plants and shrubs.
Whether you’d like to create a new border or breathe new life into an existing one, we’ll discuss your ideas and assess the area before providing a quotation.
Shrub Planting
Shrubs can provide structure, colour and interest throughout the garden.
They can be used as individual features, incorporated into mixed borders, planted within aggregate beds or grouped together to fill larger areas.
We’ll consider the available space and growing conditions when discussing suitable planting.
It’s also important to consider the eventual size of shrubs rather than simply how they look when first planted. Choosing an appropriate location can help plants establish successfully while reducing problems as they mature.
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Hedge Planting
A new hedge can provide an attractive natural boundary while also offering increased privacy, screening and structure within your garden.
We provide hedge planting services for customers looking to introduce new hedging or improve existing garden boundaries.
Different hedge plants offer different appearances, growth rates and levels of screening, so the right choice will depend on what you’d like the hedge to achieve.
We’ll assess the proposed planting area and discuss your requirements before recommending an appropriate approach.
Once established, we can also help with hedge cutting and pruning to keep your hedge neat and under control.
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Turfing & New Lawns
A fresh lawn can make an immediate difference to the appearance of a garden.
If your existing grass is badly damaged, patchy or uneven, or you’re creating a lawn as part of a larger garden improvement, we provide professional turfing and re-turfing services.
Preparation is an important part of creating a new lawn.
Depending on the existing area, work can include:
- Removing old or damaged turf
- Clearing unwanted vegetation
- Preparing the soil
- Levelling the ground
- Laying new turf
- Providing lawn aftercare advice
Once your new turf has been laid, appropriate watering and aftercare are essential while the lawn establishes.
We can explain how to look after your new lawn and also provide lawn care services where required.
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Refreshing an Existing Garden
You don’t necessarily need to completely redesign your garden to make a noticeable difference.
Sometimes concentrating on a few key areas can transform how an outdoor space looks and feels.
For example, we could replace a tired area with a new aggregate bed, introduce a raised planting bed, refresh existing borders, add new shrubs, replace an old lawn or plant a new hedge.
Several of these elements can also be combined to create a more substantial garden transformation.
If you’re not sure exactly what needs changing, we’ll look at the existing garden and discuss what you’d like to improve.
We can then recommend practical soft landscaping work based on your garden, budget and requirements.
Soft Landscaping for New Gardens
If you’re starting with a relatively empty garden, soft landscaping can help turn it into a much more welcoming outdoor space.
New-build and recently cleared gardens can sometimes lack planting, structure and character.
Introducing a lawn, raised beds, aggregate areas, borders, shrubs and hedging can help break up the space and create a garden that feels more established.
We’ll discuss how you want to use your garden and what you’d like it to look like before considering suitable soft landscaping options.
Choosing Plants for Your Garden
Successful planting isn’t simply about choosing plants because they look attractive.
Different plants prefer different growing conditions.
When considering planting, we’ll take into account factors such as:
- Sunlight and shade
- Soil conditions
- Drainage
- Available space
- Position within the garden
- Mature plant size
- Seasonal interest
- Existing plants
- The overall appearance you’re looking for
Choosing plants appropriate for their location gives them a much better opportunity to establish and thrive.
Soft Landscaping Tailored to Your Garden
Every garden is different, which is why we don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach.
You may want a colourful planted border, a raised bed, a decorative aggregate area, a fresh new lawn, additional screening from a hedge or a combination of different improvements.
We’ll start by looking at the existing space and discussing what you’d like to achieve.
From there, we can recommend an appropriate approach and provide a quotation for the work.
You can choose to have a single area improved or discuss several soft landscaping jobs as part of a larger garden project.
What Happens Next?
Getting started is straightforward.
First, contact Lee’s Garden Services and tell us what you’d like to do with your garden.
We’ll arrange a convenient time to visit your property, look at the area and discuss your ideas and requirements.
We’ll then prepare and send you a free, no-obligation quote.
If you’re happy with the quotation, we’ll arrange a suitable date for the work to be carried out.
Our process is simple:
- Get in touch and tell us about your garden.
- We’ll visit your property and discuss your requirements.
- We’ll send you a free, no-obligation quote.
- You decide whether you’d like to proceed.
- If accepted, we’ll arrange a suitable date.
- We’ll carry out the agreed soft landscaping work.
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Thinking about transforming or improving your garden?
Whether you’d like new planting, raised beds, aggregate or gravel beds, refreshed borders, shrubs, hedging, a new lawn or a combination of soft landscaping improvements, Lee’s Garden Services can help.
We’ll visit your property, discuss what you’d like to achieve and provide a quotation based on the work required.
Contact Lee’s Garden Services today to arrange your free, no-obligation soft landscaping quote.