Expert advice to help you make more of your garden this year

 

Sometimes a garden doesn’t need a complete redesign. It simply needs a fresh pair of eyes, some thoughtful ideas and a little expert guidance to help you see its potential.

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Bee’s Gardens offers one-to-one garden consultations across Oxfordshire, providing practical, personalised advice to help you understand what is working, what could be improved and where to start.

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Led by Briony Doubleday, an award-winning garden designer and qualified horticulturalist, consultations combine design insight with hands-on plant knowledge. The aim is to help you make confident decisions and create a garden that works for you, your home and the conditions of your site.

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What can we help with?

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A garden consultation can be useful if you:

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• Have an established garden that needs refreshing or rethinking

• Want to improve planting, colour, structure or year-round interest.

• Are unsure which plants will thrive in your soil, aspect or level of shade.

• Would like to know which plants to buy, and where to put them.

• Would like to review your garden after a hot, dry summer and create resilience for the seasons ahead. 

• Want to make space for wildlife and encourage biodiversity.

• Have a new-build garden and need help deciding what to do first.

• Are dreaming of a full redesign, but want to explore layout ideas before committing

• Would like to do the gardening yourself but need a professional plan, or someone to help bring all your ideas together.

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Based in Oxford, Bee’s Gardens works with clients across Oxfordshire, including Summertown, North Oxford, Boars Hill, Cumnor, Woodstock and surrounding villages.

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Starting from £350 for a 90-minute, one-to-one garden and planting design consultation, with written follow-up, planting suggestions and recommended next steps.

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"I'm quite new to gardening and Briony was fantastic - our 90 minutes in the garden were at exactly the level I needed. I'd completed her well designed, pre-visit questionnaire which meant that we could get down to practicalities  straight away. Briony was focussed on what made sense for me and was practical and supportive. She also made very helpful suggestions on the draft garden layout I had drawn. As she left I felt really enthused to get back out into the garden! Her follow-up email contained so much helpful information that I haven't yet finished reading it. It provides me with information for well into the future." Rachel W, Oxford via HOUZZ

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Contact us to book a Consultation or email briony@beesgardens.co.uk with a brief description of your garden and any relevant plans or photographs and we can go from there

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