Sustainability
in garden design

Nature connection brings enormous wellbeing benefits for us all and ensuring that nature can thrive in our gardens delivers significant ecological benefits for our wider landscape for our planet.

Beautiful, timeless gardens which are built to last using natural, local or reclaimed materials are inherently more sustainable. Planting schemes which are site-suitable and include elements of biodiversity and wildlife habitat will establish more effectively and provide far better nature benefit.

Rae's design approach involves consideration for sustainable choices and practices from concept right through to completion. Elements such as location, nature benefit, soil health, drainage and carbon footprint are considered throughout the process. While the choice of focus within these areas ultimately sits with the client, they guide the design process from a core level.

The aim is always to create beautiful and useable spaces which are beneficial for both humans and wildlife alike, now and into the future.

 

A Sustainable Website?

Rae's commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship not only informs her garden design choices, it extends to decisions in other areas. This website was recently audited for its carbon footprint, as digital is of course also physical and the global internet that is now so integral to our daily lives uses huge energy resources. With this in mind adjustments have been made to this site and its carbon footprint has been reduced by half with an average CO2e per page view of 0.6 grams (0.35 grams for this page) – almost one-third less CO2e per page view than the global average.