Garden Design in Co. Wicklow
12 businesses offering garden design across Co. Wicklow.
Garden design is the stage before anyone digs. It starts with a survey of what is actually there: measurements and levels, which way the garden faces and where the sun lands, the soil and how freely it drains, mature trees and their roots, services running underneath, and where the wind comes from. What you receive is a scale plan, usually with a planting plan and a specification for the hard landscaping. That document has a second use: it is what makes competing build quotes comparable, because every contractor is then pricing the same paving, the same levels and the same plants.
Irish conditions shape the design more than most people expect. The growing season is long and mild, but heavy ground stays wet through the winter, so drainage and level changes are settled before planting is chosen. Exposed and coastal sites need shelter planting before anything tender will establish. And because the garden is looked at through a window for a good part of the year, evergreen structure and winter interest earn their place here more than a display that peaks for six weeks in July. Adding hard surfaces also means deciding where the water goes, which is a question of permeable surfacing and drainage rather than an afterthought.
Ask early whether a business designs only, builds only, or does both, and where the design is drawn by one party and built by another, who supervises. Cost follows whether you are buying drawings or a finished garden, the extent of level changes and retaining, plant sizes, and access to the back garden for machinery and materials.
Garden Design in Co. Wicklow
Cullen Landscape Design
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Cullen Landscape Design, established in 2000, provides garden landscape and maintenance services to customers throughout Wicklow. The company has experience working in both England and Ireland for domestic and commercial clients. They offer a complete service from initial design to completion, including soft and hard landscaping, driveways, patios, and lawns. Their maintenance services cover grass cutting, weed and moss control, border maintenance, power washing, hedge and shrub care, mulching, roofing and guttering maintenance, patio and driveway washing, lawn treatments, litter collection, and light tree surgery. The team also provides practical advice on garden design. They have worked on TV projects and landscaping initiatives in South Africa.
DJ Landscapes
Bray, Co. Wicklow
With over 20 years of experience, DJ Landscapes offers garden landscape design and installation services for customers across Ireland. Our team of fully-insured landscape designers specialise in hard landscaping. Our services include the design and installation of patios, paving, fencing, stonework walls, decking, and driveways. We also offer soft landscaping design and installation services including tree and shrub planting and garden maintenance.
Drivescape Wicklow
Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow
Driveway and patio company covering Wicklow and surrounding areas, offering block paving, tarmac, gravel, resin, natural stone installations, new lawns, and more.
Eden Landscaping
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Eden Landscaping is a landscaping company serving Wicklow and South Dublin, with over 10 years of experience in garden design, construction, and maintenance. The company offers a range of services including garden maintenance, composite decking, bespoke pergolas, garden renovations, patios and paving, and garden rooms. They also provide driveway and entrance redesigns, incorporating fencing and electric gates. Eden Landscaping supplies and fits locally sourced materials and partners with Irish-owned companies. The team has been involved in community projects, including work on Ashford Main Street and participation in DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland. Their process includes consultation, design and planning, construction and installation, and a finishing walkthrough.
Elite Gardens & Landscapes
Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow
Wicklow-based landscaping company specialising in premium outdoor living spaces, with over 20 years of experience. Services include garden design, landscape construction, paving and stonework, and garden maintenance.
Landscape Design Ireland
Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
Landscape Design Ireland, based in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, provides landscape design and horticulture services to South Dublin, Dublin City, and North Wicklow. The company, founded by Managing Director Paul Kavanagh, draws on his 35 years of experience, which includes commercial tomato and apple cultivation and a decade-long collaboration with Dr Tony Ryan of Ryanair. Paul oversaw the creation of formal gardens at Lyons Demesne in Co. Kildare over 30 months and serves as Landscape Consultant for Leopardstown Racecourse in Foxrock, Co. Dublin. Services include period garden design, landscape consultancy, and garden restoration, covering both hard and soft landscaping. The firm specialises in low-maintenance gardens, with a 20-year vision, and employs safe-pass trained staff while maintaining public liability insurance.
Landscaping.ie
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Landscaping.ie, founded by Kevin Baumann, offers bespoke garden design and landscaping services across Dublin and Wicklow. The company specialises in low-maintenance garden design, with services including patios and paving, water features, raised beds, synthetic grass, gravel driveways, planting, pergolas, garden sheds, decking, lighting, and fencing. They focus on using quality materials and robust construction to create functional, family-friendly outdoor spaces. The business also provides garden wall extensions and has completed projects in areas such as Rathfarnham and Stepaside.
Lotus Landscape Design
Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow
Landscaping, garden design, and garden renovation services. Testimonials highlight garden transformation, wildlife-friendly design, and customer satisfaction.
Priority Landscaping
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Priority Landscaping, based in Bray, Co. Wicklow, provides garden and landscaping services across Dublin and surrounding counties. The company handles garden design and creation in styles from modern and contemporary to traditional, as well as hard landscaping. They offer garden fencing, tree felling, stump removal, tree surgery, hedge trimming and planting, and site clearance. The team also carries out regular garden and grounds maintenance, including lawn mowing, hedge cutting, planting schemes, and artificial grass installation.
Select Paving Wicklow
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Experts at driveways and patios in Wicklow, providing block paving, tarmac, patios, and landscaping services across County Wicklow.
T. O'Connor Landscaping & Paving
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Family-run landscaping and paving business based in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, specialising in patios, driveways, garden design, and complete landscape transformations.
Wicklow Landscaping
Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow
Affordable grass cutting services in Wicklow, covering Wicklow, Dublin, East Carlow and North Wexford. Services include gates & fencing, hedge maintenance, grass maintenance, and landscaping & design.
Common questions
What do I actually get from a garden design?
Normally a scale plan showing layout and levels, a planting plan naming species and quantities, and a specification for hard landscaping materials. Some designers also provide sketches or visuals. Ask what the deliverables are before engaging, and whether revisions after the first draft are included.
Do I need a designer, or can a landscaper just do it?
For a straightforward job such as replacing a lawn or laying a patio in the same position, a good landscaper is enough. A design earns its keep where levels change, where the garden is awkwardly shaped or overlooked, where planting has to work year round, or where the work will be phased over several years and needs to add up to something coherent at the end.
Does access to the back garden affect the job?
Substantially. A house with no side entrance means every barrow of spoil out and every slab, plant and tonne of stone in has to go through the house or over a wall, which changes both the method and the time on site. Machinery that would otherwise do a day's work in an hour may simply not fit. Mention access when requesting quotes rather than on the morning the work starts.
When is the best time to have the work done?
Hard landscaping can proceed most of the year, though heavy ground in mid-winter makes the site miserable and increases damage to lawns and access routes. Planting establishes best in the dormant season from autumn to early spring, when the soil is still warm and the plants are not trying to support foliage. Designing over the winter for a spring build is a common and sensible sequence.
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