Beyond the Borders Garden Design

About Beyond the Borders Garden Design

‘Beyond the Borders’ garden and landscape design based in Alton, Hampshire, provides a personal, imaginative and innovative garden design service covering Hampshire, Surrey and Cornwall.

Aylwin Nissen is a professionally trained and experienced garden designer with a lifelong love of gardens and an intuitive approach to spatial design, incorporating a sense of play and involvement. He has extensive experience in soft and hard landscaping, as well as construction and project management.

Full Garden Design.
Aylwin offers an initial free consultation for prospective full garden design and larger planting designs in Alton, Winchester, Guildford and Farnham areas.
The first step will be to visit your garden, assess the site and discuss your ideas, requirements, likes and dislikes and the style of garden you desire.
Together we will formulate the parameters of your brief, by exploring different ideas, considering the potential and possibilities inherent in the site, tempering this with your budget.
You will be sent a summary of our discussions (the Client Brief) which will include the level of service and a quote for the proposed garden design.
At most stages, amendments to the brief and build can be made; if additional time and materials are needed, the design and build costs will be adjusted.

Consultation without design plans.

Aylwin is available for general advice and discussion of options for your garden, including design, layout or horticultural advice. This can include a written report with recommendations and an action plan if required. The fee for consultancy is based on an hourly rate plus travel expenses.

Planting Design.
You may be pleased with your existing garden layout and only wish to change the planting. As with the full garden design, the first step is to visit to your garden and discuss your ideas, requirements, likes and dislikes and style of planting you desire.
The detailed planting plan will be unique to your garden; Aylwin will work closely with you to achieve the right balance, form and colour. A great deal of consideration goes into this plan, a file with a picture gallery of all the plants, their needs and maintenance requirements will be provided.

Restoration and Rejuvenation.
All gardens become stagnant with time and need rejuvenation, however good the original planting design.
Beyond the Borders has restored and rejuvenated large country houses to small town gardens, an initial consultation would establish the level of services required.