1. Fore design:
The work over the landscape design starts from detailed examination of your plot by an architect, acquaintance with territory’s peculiarities and, the foremost, you should express your requests concerning your future garden. What would you like to see in it? Good-sized lawn and decorative kitchen garden, lots of flowers and tiny pond, winding paths and romantic summerhouse? As consistent with your requests, landscape architect makes a rough sketch. If your ideas about your garden are not so clear, you’ll be given some rough sketches in different styles. The rough sketch reflects the general idea of your garden, arrangement of main functional zones, without detailed working out.
Fore design, or the arrangement of amenity planting and acomplishment of the plot includes working out the style and general idea of the landscape. (2-3 versions).
At customer’s will, it is possible:
1.1. Visual representation of several fragments (all-round view, figures)
1.2. Computer generated simulation (3-D view "Landscape design")
1.3. Explanatory note
2. General lay-out:
General lay-out includes available and projected buildings and constructions, zonation of the territory, laying out the paths, available and projected planting.
3. Dendroplan:
When making the garden, drawing up the planting plan is the most important stage. In many respects, dendroplan determines the image of the garden and therefore you should think about its drawing up carefully.
The owners of the plots where the garden has been just projected, have some advantages: there is a possibility to avoid some mistakes, mainly, specific for old gardens, when planting trees and bushes was chaotic. After a lapse of years ferny plants start to suppress one another. Ornamentality of trees, bushes and entire garden declines. For a variety of reasons, transplanting of such trees is very inconvenient and requires considerable expenses. Therefore, it is necessary to project the planting plan and pick up the plants at once.
In dendroplan the extent of amenity planting, assortment and arrangement of trees and bushes, flower beds, rockeries and other arrangements, the lawn surface, the cost of works and plants are pointed out
At customer‘s will, it is possible:
3.1. Sketchy working out of several amenity planting fragments (working out flower beds, mixboarders, rockeries)
4. Land surveying:
Land surveying is a topographic plotting of altitudes, horizon, groundwater level
5. Designing of paths:
Before drawing up the paths’ plan, you should answer several questions. How many paths in the plot do you need? What places are the most attended in the garden? What paths will be used permanently or seasonally, for instance, only in summer? Do you need the place for the car in front of the garage, or could you be limited to the entrance of usual wideness. It ought to be noted, the wideness of garden paths is defined by the function, as well as the style, which determines the space around your house.
6. Watering system design:
Watering system design is a layout of conduits, sprinklers, other equipment and cost of works.
7. Lighting layout:
Designing of plot’s lighting takes place in the closing stages of drawing up the landscape design, when the paths and ground, ponds, flower beds and arrangements, summerhouses, etc. are designed and confirmed, in one word, when main objects of the garden demanding illumination are defined. Here you should think about and represent the terms of reference on designing of the lighting. It is essential think about possible lighting programs of the plot (tell-tale lamp, day-to-day, festive) and about the maintenance of different zones of the garden in night-time – children’s games, athletics, stroll on the paths, refreshment near barbecue etc.




