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Duncan Heather, principal of the Oxford College of Garden Design, wrote a recent article in which he provided a scenario for the lead times relating to the design and build of a garden. In this article, he states that from initial contact by a potential client, through design, build and planting out, that the process can take up to 3 years. At Nigel Jamison Garden Design, I have yet to experience such a lengthy process, however, I do understand what Duncan is getting at, I always caution clients that the process will take time, the speed of which depends upon a number of things:

• Initial client meeting
• Site Survey
• Design proposal/s
• Client feedback
• Specification Drawings
• Confirming contractor
• Garden build starts
• Availability of plants
• Planting

Unless you are commissioning a show garden, where budgets allow for the inclusion of planting which is already mature or which has specifically been held back or ‘forced on’ by the supplier, most gardens remain a work in progress for some time. In Northern Ireland as in most places, we work with the seasons and around the weather, the images on this page are a reflection of that and show gardens in a state of progress. As these spaces reach completion and maturity, I will endeavour to include further images.