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Demo Verdant Studio is a fictional landscape practice invented by SNJ Web Designs. The projects, awards, fees and addresses are made up. No such studio exists.

Hornbeam avenue at Marden House, cut once a year in August

Landscape architecture, London and Seville

Gardens that get better the longer you leave them alone.

What we do

Private gardens, courtyards, roof terraces and public realm across two climates.

How we work

Drawn by hand first, planted in layers, maintained for two years after handover.

Current

Taking commissions for spring 2027 planting.

Gardens completed
Years in practice
Climates we plant in
Commissions a year

Eleven years, ninety-four gardens.

Six of them here. Two climates, one method: survey honestly, draw it, plant it, and come back for two years.

Alameda Courtyard, Seville, 2024

A dark north-facing patio rebuilt around one fountain, four cypress and enough shade to sit out in August.

Alameda Courtyard

Seville · 2024
  • Courtyard
  • Water
  • Deep shade
Fielden Square, London, 2023

A neglected garden square given a wet garden down its spine, so the rain that used to flood the path now feeds it.

Fielden Square

London · 2023
  • Public realm
  • Rain garden
  • Perennial
The Long Walk, London, 2022

Two hundred metres of walled kitchen garden put back to work: fruit on the warm wall, cut flowers on the cold one.

The Long Walk

London · 2022
  • Walled garden
  • Kitchen
  • Espalier
Trough Court, London, 2024

A small courtyard of self-binding gravel, one reclaimed stone trough and planting chosen to be dry by design.

Trough Court

London · 2024
  • Gravel
  • Grasses
  • Reclaimed stone
Calle Olmo Water Wall, Seville, 2021

A blank brick flank turned into the coolest place on the site, with water falling the full width of the terrace.

Calle Olmo Water Wall

Seville · 2021
  • Water
  • Brick
  • Terrace
Hollow Lane, London, 2025

Dry stone retaining a steep shaded bank, planted for the six months of the year when nothing flowers.

Hollow Lane

London · 2025
  • Dry stone
  • Shade
  • Timber

A garden is the only thing we build that is supposed to look unfinished on the day we hand it over.

From the studio's written brief, invented for this demo

A short list, used everywhere.

A narrow palette is cheaper to maintain, easier to replace, and it is why a garden of ours still reads as one place after ten years.

Every commission starts on paper.

Concept planAlameda Courtyard, 1:100

Where the shade falls, where the water goes, and how far it is from the door to the shade.

Survey and layoutHollow Lane, 1:200

Levels, drainage, and every tree worth keeping, drawn before a single plant is specified.

Long planThe Long Walk, 1:500

The whole site in one sheet. Clients get this framed at handover, whether they want it or not.

Drag from the plan to the planting.

Garden layout plan
The same walk once planted
On paperPlanted

Two unrelated openly licensed pictures, shown side by side to demonstrate the control.

Three ways to commission us.

Fees are fixed at the end of the survey, not estimated at the start. Every figure here is invented for this demo.

  • Survey, concept, planting plan, lighting, materials and tender drawings. We appoint and manage the contractor.

    From £14,000 · 4 to 6 months
They planted for the garden we would have in twelve years, not the photograph we wanted in twelve weeks.

Invented quote, written to show the layout

  • Invented award2024
  • Invented commendation2023
  • Invented regional prize2022
  • Real recognition would sit here2021

Tell us about the site.

We take eight commissions a year and reply to every enquiry within a week, including the ones we cannot take.

Studio address, London
Studio address, Seville
Contact details are fictional in this demo.

City, and roughly how large
For example £15,000 to £40,000