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About Us
We take a personalised approach to all our garden makeovers, tackling small and large gardens, catering to individual taste, lifestyle needs and your property.
Many people struggle to visualise how they can maximise their outdoor space. Our job is to listen to your aspirations and create a bespoke garden design that addresses your challenges, requirements and makes the most out of what you have. We always aim to balance form and function to deliver a dream garden with year-round benefits.
Serving South East London, Kent & Sussex, we handle everything from concept to completion, so you can simply enjoy your garden.
Beautiful Gardens, Happy Humans, Healthy Habits
Our solution-orientated process is all-encompassing – we take time to understand your needs, develop the design, coordinate the execution, and deliver the vision!
We also cater to specialist requirements, such as sustainable considerations, introducing habitat for bees, butterflies, birds, or requests for rain-only planting and specific styles of garden.
Design Heights was founded by Carole Jordorson. She has the guiding belief that gardens are another room of your house to be enjoyed all year round. Carole has a proven track record of designing low-maintenance gardens for all lifestyles, family sizes, environments and settings. Her creativity and problem-solving skills shine through on every project.
Design Heights is based in Sundridge Park, Bromley and covers all postcodes within a 25-mile radius, including South East London, Kent and Sussex.
What Our Clients Say
Easy to Deal With
“Design Heights undertook a full garden design in our garden in Beckenham, they did a great job of creating a modern contemporary garden which balances the needs of adults and young children alike.
They were easy to deal with throughout the process and we have ended up with a great garden which I’m sure will get better with every year.
The team put in lots of effort through the process and continued to keep in touch to make sure it all went well.”
Dan
Clarity of Thought
“Carole helped visualise, design and implement a beautiful garden for us,
including a landscaped patio space, planting, flowers, lawn space and irrigation.
She took all our requirements into account, was very patient with delayed project timelines
and had the clarity of thought to help us take the right decisions at each step along the way.
We are very happy with the end result and would wholeheartedly recommend her service”
Ash
Centrepiece of our Home
“Carole created the most beautiful, child-friendly, low-maintenance, and versatile garden we could have ever dreamed of.
It has become the centrepiece of our home. During the week, it serves as the backdrop for our studio,
and on weekends, we enjoy having friends and family over for lunch while the kids play.”
Luca
The colours and overall layout are beautiful, with no unattractive muddy or empty patches. It is now such a pleasure to sit in the garden and enjoy the wonderful mix of height, texture, and colour she has created.
Carole has also always been available to offer advice on plant care and suggestions for seasonal additions to our pots and displays. I would highly recommend this talented lady.
The team put in lots of effort through the process and continued to keep in touch to make sure it all went well.
We engaged Carole to do a back garden redesign in our new house in late Spring 2024. We had previously worked with her a few years earlier to redesign our previous house back garden. We spent a couple of weeks coming to a design in early Spring. Carole took account of our preferences and came up with a design that fit within our budget and took account of our wish for extensive planting and the associated plans. We tweaked it a couple of times based on more understanding of the light patterns in the garden as spring emerged. We were able to repurpose various parts of the garden and adopt them into the design, and bring in new elements. Carole connected us with a landscaper to do some of the hard works and this worked out well for everyone. Irrigation was put in to ensure the large number of plants would survive the summer. Carole helped with planting day and found some additional labour to assist with the 150+ plants. We were only a few percent over our budget which was largely as a result of some unexpected fence works. I said in my previous review in 2020 we wouldn’t hesitate to use Carole again and so it turned out. We would say the same again although we do not plan to ever move again!!!
She recommended and worked with a landscaper to implement the plan, during the wettest Autumn possible. It was a cold, wet, muddy and seemingly endless time. But eventually it all came together.
We also contracted Carole to provide a planting plan, which took into account the few plants and shrubs we wanted to keep. She naturally considered the garden’s aspect and soil type, (clay soil, full shade, dappled shade and full sun), and our requirements for year-round interest and a very natural look. She expertly chose the most appropriate plants and I take my hat off to her and her team who dug into thick clay to plant out the garden.
Now we have a truly gorgeous garden. The patio envelopes the rear of the house, an old concrete shed base has been cloaked by an unusually-shaped deck and pergola, the uneven rear fence has disappeared behind a modern slatted facade, and a palisade hides the raised vegetables beds. The old patio bricks have been recycled into new paths and our various sculptures and new water feature are highlighted in the gravel areas.
We are delighted with the end result. I can’t stop looking at it! Every day, rain or shine, I look at the garden from my windows, or take a walk around it to see how it’s doing. I love it! it was a big investment but very well worth it as it will give us years of pleasure.
Amanda & Ken
From the Blog
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