Patios
Usually the centrepiece of a garden redesign, and best planned within it.
Exterior
You know the garden could be more. The hard part is who to trust with it.
Whether you have a designer’s plan ready to build, a sloping plot that needs taming, or just a clear sense that the space is wasted, tell us what you are imagining and we will introduce landscaping professionals whose credentials we have already checked.
What we cover
Typical landscaping projects
- Full garden redesign: taking a tired or overgrown plot back to a plan and building it properly.
- Hard landscaping: retaining walls, steps, terracing, paths and raised beds.
- Soft landscaping: lawns, planting schemes, hedging and trees.
- Levelling and drainage: sloping plots, waterlogged lawns and gardens that never quite dry out.
- Garden structures: pergolas, decking and outdoor seating areas built to last outdoors in a coastal climate.
- Ongoing maintenance: keeping an established or newly built garden in condition.
What we will ask you
So we can match you accurately, the enquiry asks whether you need design, build or maintenance, or a combination; the approximate size of the space; the works you have in mind; how the garden is accessed; and whether you already have plans or drawings.
Access matters more than most owners expect. If the only way in is through the house or a narrow side gate, machinery may not fit and every tonne of spoil leaves by wheelbarrow, which changes the approach and the price. It is far better discussed at the start. Every question has a “not sure” option.
Why choose Kalvaro
Design, build and maintenance are three different skills
Very few companies genuinely do all three well. A beautiful drawing built badly, or solid groundwork with no design eye, both waste your money. We match the shape of your project to partners with the right capability, not just the nearest one.
Matched to the job, not the label
The enquiry separates design, build and maintenance so we can introduce companies that actually do the part you need.
Vetted before introduction
Trading history, public liability insurance and identity, verified before a partner sees your enquiry.
Evidence of real gardens
Every partner submits photographs of completed work as part of their application, so structural work like retaining walls is backed by proof, not promises.
How it works
Four steps, one conversation
1Tell us about your garden
A few guided questions about the space and what you want from it.
2We review your requirements
A member of our team reads it personally.
3We introduce landscaping specialists
A small number of suitable, vetted partners.
4You choose with confidence
Compare, decide and start on your terms.
Completed work
Recent landscaping projects
What this page will show once our founding partners have work to photograph.
Photography is coming, and it will be real
This is Kalvaro artwork, not a photograph. We have deliberately not filled this page with stock images of somebody else’s landscaping, because presenting bought imagery as a partner’s own work is exactly the sort of thing we exist to avoid.
As our founding partners complete landscaping projects, their photographs will replace this, with their permission and their name against the work.
Landscaping questions
Frequently asked
Not necessarily. Some projects need a designed plan first; others are well within a good landscaper’s judgement on site. The enquiry asks whether you need design, build or both, and we introduce professionals who fit the answer. If you already have a design, say so, because building someone else’s plan faithfully is a skill in itself.
It is a constraint, not a dealbreaker, but it needs pricing honestly. Restricted access rules out most machinery, slows spoil removal and protects nothing by being discovered on day one. Tell us in the enquiry and we will introduce companies used to working that way.
Hard landscaping happens year round, weather permitting. Planting and turfing prefer spring and autumn. Good companies are often booked ahead for the popular months, so enquiring earlier than feels necessary is rarely a mistake.
Some can, and some claim to. Structural work like retaining walls and terracing needs different competence to soft landscaping, which is exactly why we review the works you list and match accordingly rather than sending your enquiry to everyone.
Pricing is agreed directly between you and the professional you choose. It varies enormously with size, levels, access and materials, which is why the enquiry asks about each. Kalvaro makes the introduction; we do not set or guarantee prices.
Yes. Maintenance is one of the options in the enquiry, on its own or alongside a build. A newly planted garden needs care in its first seasons, and it is worth deciding who provides that before the build finishes rather than after.
Related services
Often planned together
Fencing
Boundaries frame the whole design and are easiest replaced before planting.
Resin driveways
The front garden equivalent: one contractor mobilisation, two transformed spaces.
Tell us about your garden
A few minutes now, and a vetted professional thinking about your space properly. Free to property owners, with no obligation.