We design, build and plant gardens for people who actually want to live outside — not just glance at a lawn from the kitchen window. One team, start to finish: consultation, design, build, planting, aftercare.
Elder & Stone started because too many "finished" gardens turn out to be beautiful for about six weeks — then the planting fails, the patio pools with water, or nobody actually goes out there. We build gardens people use every week, in every season, for years.
We're a small, deliberately un-scaled studio: one design team, one build team, no subcontracting your project out to whoever's free. The person who draws your garden is the person who's there when it's being built, and the same team comes back to check on it once it's growing in.
We work across the Cotswolds and the wider Home Counties, on everything from a single overgrown border to a full plot redesign around a new build.
No design-only churn, no unmanaged subcontractors on-site. The team that plans your garden is the team accountable for building it.
An on-site visit — how you actually use the space, budget, timeline, what's not working now.
Full concept, planting plan and material palette — revised until it's exactly right, before anything's dug.
Groundwork, hard landscaping and structures — our own build team, never handed off to a stranger.
Full planting to the approved plan, in the right season and the right conditions for it to actually thrive.
Twelve months of maintenance visits included, so everything establishes the way it was designed to.
Real projects, real conditions — small courtyards, cottage borders and full plot redesigns.
From a single border to a full plot — pick the scope that matches what your garden actually needs right now.
Start from scratch — whole-plot design and build, for a garden that isn't working at all.
EnquireNew planting plans and softscaping for a layout you're keeping — the part most people get wrong.
EnquirePaths, patios, walling and structures — built by our own team, not a rotating cast of subcontractors.
EnquireOngoing seasonal care so a finished garden stays finished, long after the first year's included visits end.
EnquireElder & Stone is a concept build used to show our website process; these quotes are written examples, not real client reviews.
They actually asked how we use the garden before drawing anything. Eighteen months on, the planting's still doing exactly what it was meant to.
One team the whole way through made a real difference — no chasing a designer and a separate builder who'd never spoken to each other.
Our border had failed twice before with two other companies. Elder & Stone's the first one who explained why, in plain terms, before replanting it.
An on-site visit to talk through your garden, budget and timeline — no obligation, and it's the same person who'd go on to design it.