Landscape & garden design · Cork
We create gardens
worth living in
Thoughtfully designed gardens, landscapes and outdoor spaces, created around the way you actually live.
210 +
Gardens completed
16
Years designing
9
People in the studio
10 yr
Workmanship guarantee
Fig. 01 — Boundary wall, Kinsale
51.70°N
A garden is a building
that happens to grow
Levels, drainage and structure decide whether a garden works. Planting decides whether you love it. Most projects fail because somebody skipped the first three and started with the last one.
We survey before we draw, draw before we price, and price before anyone lifts a spade. It is slower at the start and considerably faster afterwards — and it is the reason our programmes hold.
Design-led
Every build starts from a measured drawing, so the price is against something real.
One team throughout
The people who drew it are the people who set it out. No handovers to lose things in.
Quality materials
Named suppliers and specifications on the quote — you can look up everything we propose.
Project managed
A fixed programme, a weekly written note and one person who answers the phone.
Imagine your garden,
before we build it
Choose a style, add the elements you want and watch the plan redraw itself. It takes about a minute and gives you a costed concept at the end.
Try it
The drawing above is live. Switch the lighting to see the scheme after dark, or tilt it into a model view — the same controls the full visualiser gives you, alongside style, elements and an indicative cost.
The same garden, twice
Drag the handle. This is the survey drawing of a real project layout, before and after — the same site, the same boundaries, everything else changed.
Drag the handle, or use the arrow keys
Design, build
and everything after
Twelve services, one team. Most clients start with a design and carry straight on into the build — but every part of it stands on its own.
Gardens we have built
Five projects across Cork and West Cork, with the figures, the materials and what we would do differently.
Nine steps, in order
Every project runs the same sequence. The order matters more than the list — most of what goes wrong in gardens is a step taken too early.
- 01 90 minutes, on site
Consultation
We walk the garden with you and talk about how you want to use it. No drawings yet, no pressure, and no charge.
- 02 Half a day
Site survey
Measured survey of boundaries, levels, drainage, services, soil and the trees worth keeping.
- 03 3–4 weeks
Garden design
Two concept directions drawn to scale, with materials, planting character and indicative costs.
- 04 1 week
Visualisation
The chosen direction rendered so you can see the garden from the places you will actually stand.
- 05 1 week
Quote
A fixed, itemised price against the drawings. What you sign is what you pay.
- 06 4–10 weeks
Construction
Groundworks, drainage, hard landscaping and structures, with weekly photographs.
- 07 1–2 weeks
Planting
Soil prepared, plants set out and adjusted on the ground, then planted and mulched.
- 08 2 days
Lighting
Fittings installed and then aimed after dark, with the scenes set alongside you.
- 09 One evening
Final reveal
We hand over the garden with a care guide, a plant schedule and the drawings.
What they said afterwards
“We had two other quotes that were a page long. Ardan gave us drawings, a materials list and a programme, and then they held to it. The garden was finished four days early and the lighting is the thing our friends actually comment on.”
Aoife & Dara Ó Ríordáin
Kinsale, Co. Cork
Full landscaping · 340 m²
“Our old patio held water every winter. They surveyed the falls, found the real problem was a blocked run at the boundary, and fixed that first. It has not puddled once since.”
Michelle Barry
Douglas, Cork
Patio & planting · 90 m²
“We used the design service and then built it ourselves over two summers. The drawings were detailed enough that our own builder never had to ring them once. That is unusual and it saved us thousands.”
Seán Crowley
Bandon, Co. Cork
Garden design only
“Three kids and a dog, and we wanted something that would still look like a garden. They put the play area where we could see it from the kitchen and used surfaces that survive a scooter. Two years on it still looks new.”
Niamh Fitzgerald
Clonakilty, Co. Cork
Family garden · 260 m²
“Everything we had planted ourselves died of salt burn. They rebuilt the shelter planting first and left the ornamental for the following year. It was the right call and nobody else suggested it.”
Tom & Fiona Walsh
Rosscarbery, West Cork
Coastal garden · 420 m²
“They moved the whole kitchen three metres from where we had imagined it, because of where the wind comes from. Annoying at the time. Completely right — we have used it all summer without smoking ourselves out.”
Karen Murphy
Carrigaline, Co. Cork
Outdoor kitchen & terrace
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Tell us about your garden and we will tell you what it could be
A ninety-minute consultation on site, with no charge and no obligation. You will get an honest view of what your garden can take and roughly what it costs.