Postal Design Service

Oasis Designs is at the forefront of an exciting new dimension of outdoor living.  We are re-defining, through our designs and plant sourcing, the boundaries of subtropical gardening in the United Kingdom.  For the first time this year we are pleased to have expanded the service making it available by post nationwide as an affordable package.  

Client's self-built garden in Thorpe Bay, nr Southend-on-Sea

 When choosing the Oasis Designs postal design service, you get the same individual design attention as with a personal consultation.  It is not an ‘off the peg’ service where you get one of a limited range of garden plans.  Each new design is individually tailored to your needs and requirements.  By carrying out a couple of straightforward procedures yourself you eliminate the need for me to visit your garden and also a substantial portion of the cost.  

What I need to know

You will have to provide me with enough information to design your dream garden for you.  This is accomplished by filling out some questionnaires, providing me with a detailed site plan with measurements and taking a series of photos or a video.  This is a lot simpler than it sounds as I provide comprehensive instructions in the full pack that I send out to postal clients.  

What do you get

You will receive two copies of a hand drawn detailed plan of your new garden layout, one in colour to help bring the design alive.  This plan is based on your survey information, and will show patios, paths, features and themed borders with key plants named – all individually tailored to your requirements.  In other words the entire framework from which your new garden can evolve.  I will also provide a list of suitable plants from which you have the freedom to choose your own individual planting schemes to complement the framework that I provide.

What it will cost

Front and back gardens need to be treated as separate gardens.  If you want to take advantage of the postal service then email me and I will send you the relevant questionnaires and survey instructions as a Word Doc attachment.

 Add on services

 I can provide you with a range of additional services including:

•        Initial site survey and consultation

This is everything that the postal design pack covers, but I do it for you!  I also get the opportunity to chat and get as much background information as I need.  Available anywhere within a day’s return journey travelling distance.

•        Full planting plans

These are additional, larger scale drawings of the borders in your garden, with the exact botanical names, numbers and planting distances of each plant noted.  This ensures that you have the right plant in the right place with regards to eventual height, spread and local conditions and is also your plant shopping list.

•        Detailed hard landscaping plans

Detailed drawings of the various hard landscaping features and elements within the garden which you or your landscape contractor can accurately and safely use as a blueprint for their construction.

•        Elevation or perspective drawings

Understanding a two dimensional plan of a new design isn’t easy.  I can draw various views of a proposed design to give a much clearer impression of the finished item.

•        Building/planting specifications

Specifications are, in effect, a list of detailed instructions for landscape contractors to carry out the work, involving detail for earth moving, storing and shaping, ground preparation, depth of and material used for wall footings, planting hole depth, feed applications etc,  

•        Tender documents

This is the paperwork bundle sent out to a number of local landscape contractors from which they are able to submit accurate price estimates for the work.  Useful if you have no contractors recommended.

•        Project supervision

Staged visits by myself or my representative to check that the work is being carried out according to specification.  It has been known for contractors to ‘dilute’ the amount or quality  of materials used in order to increase profit.

•        Maintenance schedules

Once your new garden has been constructed and planted, it is sometimes difficult to know exactly how to get the best from it and keep it looking at its peak as the years go by.  When to feed, prune, water, protect from the elements are all detailed here.

•        Plant sourcing

I can source and supply most if not all of the plants you need for your new garden.  Regarded by some as one of the more enjoyable aspects of a new garden, often many people do not have the time for this.

 Please enquire for details and prices.  

For more information, please contact me by Email ,or  telephone on 01268 757666 or write to me at :

Oasis, 42 Greenwood Avenue, South Benfleet, Essex, SS7 1LD.

ã Paul Spracklin 2002

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