Three ways to understand and improve your garden

Tony works between a conventional gardener and a traditional garden designer: practical expert guidance that helps you make confident decisions for yourself.

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Tony Harding helps homeowners make better garden decisions by combining practical horticultural advice, garden coaching and design judgement. His experience includes more than 40 years in horticulture and RHS Gold Award-winning garden design, so the advice is grounded in plant knowledge as well as the way a garden should look, feel and work over time.

You do not need to know whether you need a garden consultant, garden coach or garden designer before getting in touch. Start with the situation in front of you: an inherited garden, a new-build plot, tired borders, confusing plant choices, an overgrown space or a larger garden project where you want expert guidance before spending money.

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Garden Consultation

A focused visit, garden walkaround and practical written action plan when you need clarity about what to do next. This is ideal if you feel stuck, want a second opinion, need planting advice or would like priorities before commissioning major work.

Tony can look at soil, aspect, borders, lawns, plant health, maintenance demands, layout problems and the changes that would give you the most useful improvement.

Guide pricing is confirmed after Tony understands your garden, location and the level of advice required.

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Year-Long Garden Guide

Tony’s recommended service. Seasonal guidance, reviews and a personal garden plan that develops with your garden, giving you the right advice at the right point in the year.

This is useful if you want to learn as you go, understand what each season is telling you and build confidence with pruning, planting, maintenance, soil improvement and future planning.

Guide pricing is confirmed after Tony understands your garden, the seasons of support required and the most useful mentoring format.

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Garden Design & Project Guidance

Design thinking and informed horticultural guidance for homeowners planning substantial changes, from border restructuring and new planting to phased garden improvements.

Tony’s RHS Gold Award-winning design experience helps you shape a clearer brief, avoid expensive mistakes and make sure practical choices about planting, scale, maintenance and sequence are considered before work begins.

Guide pricing is confirmed after Tony understands the scale of the garden, the design guidance required and the best project route.

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Support for a particular garden problem

Tony also helps with planting and border plans, new-build gardens, established or overgrown gardens, lower-maintenance planning, wildlife-friendly gardens, private lessons, workshops, talks and post-design mentoring.

Explore common garden problems or tell Tony what is getting in your way.

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Three ways to understand and improve your garden