Award-Winning Garden Design in Harrogate
GardenWild creates bespoke gardens that combine thoughtful design with exceptional planting. Our horticulturally trained designers work across Harrogate and the surrounding areas to create gardens that look beautiful throughout the seasons and grow better year after year.
Our Harrogate, North Yorkshire and North Leeds design service creates beautiful, practical gardens tailored to your life. Whether starting from scratch or redesigning, we craft contemporary low‑maintenance, lush planting, or family‑friendly layouts that look great year‑round. We design personal, welcoming, lasting gardens homeowners love.
Plant-Led Garden Design
Unlike many design studios, our background is in horticulture and planting. This means every garden we design is built around plants that thrive in the conditions of your garden.
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Garden Design Process
Let’s Talk
Your perfect garden will start with a conversation.
Free Discovery Call
After your initial enquiry, we’ll arrange a friendly phone call at a convenient time to talk through the basics of what you’re hoping to achieve with your new garden. We’ll discuss what you currently like (and don’t like) about the space, any ideas or inspiration you have, and your overall budget.
It’s also a chance for us to explain the full design process so you know exactly what to expect as we move forward.
The call usually takes around 20–40 minutes, and afterwards we can arrange a design consultation to take the next step in bringing your garden to life.
Your Garden Design Consultation
This is our first opportunity to explore your aspirations for your garden. During this initial consultation, we’ll talk about how you’d like to use the space — whether that’s dining, cooking, relaxing, entertaining, or something else — as well as the overall look and feel you’d like to create.
It also gives us a chance to walk around the garden and understand the existing environment, so we can see the opportunities the space offers as well as any limitations we need to consider.
These consultations usually take around an hour. Afterwards, we’ll write up a design brief for you to review and amend so we can make sure everything reflects exactly what you’d like from your garden.
Site Survey
Once you’ve reviewed the design brief and are happy with it, the next step is the site survey. This helps us gather all the important details about your garden, including its dimensions, terrain, soil type, and any existing trees or structures.
In many cases, a professional land survey will also be carried out to ensure everything is measured accurately. Whether this is needed will depend on the size and complexity of your garden.
The Design
When we understand what you want we can start the design process.
Concept Plan
Using the ideas and inspiration gathered in your design brief, we’ll create a Concept Plan for your garden. This is an early visual representation of the proposed design and helps bring the overall vision to life.
The concept will include a number of illustrations, a simple top-down layout of the garden with the proposed elements, and a visual mood board to capture the look and feel of the space.
At this stage, we’ll review the design together and discuss any ideas or adjustments you’d like to make before moving forward to the next step.
Master Plan
Once you’re happy to move forward, we’ll create the Master Plan. This is the detailed design that your landscaper will use to build your garden according to the agreed vision.
The plan will include a full layout of the garden, materials, levels, and any construction details that may be required. It provides everything needed to ensure the design is built accurately and to the highest standard.
Planting Plan
The final step in the design process — but by no means the least important — is the planting plan. Planting is the living, growing soul of the garden, and it needs to be carefully tailored to the garden’s specific environment.
The plan includes a scaled, top-down drawing that shows the position, quantities, and species of each plant within the garden.
You’ll also receive a picture plant list, detailed plant profiles (highlighting the key characteristics of each plant), and a maintenance schedule to help you or your gardener care for the garden as it grows and develops.
Tender Package
We can also help you find the right hard landscaper to carry out the build and guide you through the selection process.
As part of this, we’ll prepare and provide all the necessary design details for pricing and construction. We’ll also arrange a site visit with your chosen landscaper before work begins, so they have a clear understanding of the design and all the information they need before starting the project.
The Build
We offer optional further support after the design process is finished.
On-Going Support
We’re just as invested as you are in making sure the build runs smoothly and that you end up with the garden you’ve been dreaming of.
Throughout the build, we’re on hand to support both you and your landscaper — answering any questions that arise and helping ensure the finished garden stays true to the design.
Planting
GardenWild originally began as a soft landscaping and horticultural aftercare business. Over the years, we’ve implemented planting plans to a very high standard and have likely worked with many of the garden designers you may have heard of across North and West Yorkshire.
Because of our hands-on experience in soft landscaping and our strong horticultural knowledge, we believe the best people to bring our planting plans to life is our own team.
If you’d like to learn more about our planting approach, feel free to - Dig a little deeper.
Portfolio
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![A backyard garden with a stone patio, a curved flower bed filled with purple and white flowers, lush green grass, and a tall hedge in the background. There are neighboring houses behind the hedge, and a small tree stands near the center.]()
Mediterranean - Huby, North Yorkshire
A functional space the they can relax in surrounded beautiful planting.
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![A garden with pink and purple flowers in front of a stone house with multiple windows and a balcony, under a clear blue sky.]()
Design and Evolve - North Leeds, West Yorkshire
Half ann acre garden looks out across stunning panoramic views of the Aire Valley and across to Almscliffe Cragg and Wharfedale.
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![Close-up of pink cone-shaped Echinacea flowers and white small blooms in a garden with woven outdoor furniture and white house exterior in the background.]()
Arts and Crafts Restoration - Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Three acre garden is set within the grounds of an historic Arts and Crafts property, nestled in the ancient woodland of the Nidd Gorge, Harrogate.
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![A lush garden with flowering plants, bushes, and trees, bordered by brick and stone walls, with a house and cloudy sky in the background.]()
North Facing Town Garden - Harrogate, North Yorkshire
This historic terraced house looks out over Harrogate’s famous Stray Parkland.
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Contemporary Town Garden - Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Newly redesigned and landscaped town garden.
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The Sea Shell - Allerton Bywater, West Yorkshire
Detached house with a recently completed hard landscaping is very organic and designed around a costal theme.
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![A lush garden with various colorful flowers and green foliage in front of gray stone houses with slate roofs, under a cloudy sky.]()
The Old School House - North Yorshire
Historic school house conversion in north Yorkshire looks out on to a beautifully complex garden.
