Creating a Luxury Garden for Entertaining and Relaxation

Designed to maximise both functionality and visual impact, this comprehensive landscaping project combined high-quality materials with thoughtful design. The scheme included a resin-bound entrance driveway, porcelain pathways and patios, clay paver features, expansive lawn areas, and beautifully prepared planting beds. The rear garden was carefully structured around multiple entertainment zones, including a sunken seating area, pool surroundings, and future outdoor building space, creating a versatile outdoor environment for year-round enjoyment. 

Comprehensive Landscape Design & Build

A complete transformation featuring a resin-bound driveway, porcelain terraces, clay paver detailing, expansive lawns, and bespoke outdoor entertaining spaces. Thoughtfully designed and expertly constructed, this project delivers a contemporary garden that combines practical family living with elegant outdoor entertaining.

Elegant Front & Back Garden Transformation

Sage were delighted to deliver a complete landscape redesign for this property, creating a stylish and practical flow from the front driveway to the rear entertaining spaces.

At the front, the new driveway combines crisp cobbled edging, silver-toned decorative aggregates, and lush Portuguese laurel hedging for year-round greenery and privacy. Two porcelain-tiled patios at the porch and side access add both function and elegance.

The back garden was reimagined as a true outdoor living space. Porcelain terraces and clay paver pathways now define dining, entertaining, and firepit zones, all underpinned by professional drainage and durable sub-base construction. New feather-edge fencing secured the boundaries while also expanding the usable space.

To soften the hard landscaping, we prepared and planted generous beds and installed over 60 mature laurels to create instant structure and screening. The project was completed with a freshly laid lawn, delivering a versatile, welcoming garden that can be enjoyed throughout the seasons.

This project in Guildford comprises of:

Landscaping rear and side garden

Hard Surface preparation

Prepare the ground for the new landscaping scheme as per the plan provided.

• Remove the existing lawn from the back garden
• Excavate the ground by approx. 450mm – 600mm to create a flat blank canvas.
• Keep some of the soil to refill the raised beds – the rest of the soil to be removed from site using grab lorries
• Prepare the ground for all the hard surfaces patio, gravel area and retaining walls.
• Excavate the ground by the 250mm
• Supply and lay crush concrete, mot type 1 and geotex membrane ready for the porcelain tiles to be laid as per the plan provided – a total of 97sqm

Retaining walls preparation

• Dig a trench a total of 52 linear meters long and 0.3m deep
• Supply and fill the trenches with c35 concrete to create a foundation ready for the retaining walls to be installed.
• Supply and lay hollow blocks surrounding the new patio area and raised beds as per the plan provided.
  

Steps

• Supply and install hollow blocks to create steps in 3 locations.
• Dimension and specification as per the plan provided.
  

Retaining walls

• Supply and lay 26sqm of slate cladding, colour to be selected by the client and lay on the face of the hollow blocks to create a professional finish.
• Supply and lay the same porcelain tiles on top of the walls to create capping stones.
  

Patio and pathways

• Supply and lay 97sqm of porcelain tiles.
• 97sqm will cover all the patio, steps and pathways including the top of the retaining walls.
  

Sleeper flower bed

• Supply and install additional 5 wooden sleepers to extend the existing flower beds on the side of the property.
  

Gravel area

• Remove the existing standard gravel on the side of the property (the gravel to be re-used at the front of the property)
• Supply and lay geotex membrane ready for planting.
• Supply and lay 2 tons of decorative aggregates.
  

BBQ Wall

• Create a BBQ wall 3m long and 2.2m high using hollow blocks and the same slate cladding as the retaining walls.
  

Cedar Fencing

• Supply and install wooden joists surrounding the new entertainment section, BBQ wall and the house in the rear of the garden.
• Supply and install 16 linear meter of cedar batons 2.2m high to create a professional finish please see the pictures attached
  

Flower bed and lawn

• Refill all the new flower beds with recycled topsoil.
• Supply and lay good quality compost to the flower beds ready for planting.
• Rotovate all the lawn areas in 3 different locations
• Create a professional level.
• Supply and lay 130sqm of new turf.

This project in Walton on Thames comprises of:

New Fencing

• Prepare the ground for the new fencing to be installed.
• Remove all the vegetation to create space for the new fence to be installed.
• Supply and install feather edge fencing using concrete posts and concrete gravel boards

Outdoor building base

• Prepare the ground for the new outdoor building base in the rear of the garden
• Excavate the ground
• Supply and lay crush concrete and goetex membrane
• Supply and lay  concrete to create a slab base
• The base to be installed above the ground level

Patio back garden

• Prepare the ground for the new small patio in the rear of the garden
• Supply and lay crush concrete and goetex membrane
• Supply and lay porcelain tiles

This project in Farnborough comprises of:

Patio

• Removing the existing patio
• Prepare the ground for the new patio to be laid.
• Dig a trench surrounding the building for the new retaining wall.
• Supply and lay single concrete blocks to create the retaining wall
• Supply and lay matching bricks on the face of the retaining wall to match the building
• Supply and spread 100 tons of crush concrete to increase the level of the new patio
• Replace the existing manholes
• Create steps from the new building area into the lawn.
• Supply and lay porcelain tiles.

Petanque Terrain

• Excavate the ground
• Supply and lay crush concrete and a geotex membrane
• Supply and install timber to create a frame
• Surrounding the frame to create a solid boarder
• All the excavated soil will be re-used surrounding the terrain to create a level surface and avoid any drops for safety
• Supply and spread grass seed

This project in Pearsmarsh, Guildford comprises of:

Front Driveway

• Prepare the ground for the new block paving driveway and the side path
• Excavate the ground
• Supply and lay crush concrete, and geotex membrane
• Supply and lay block paving, – two different colours, one colour for a frame and a different colour for the internal

Pathway Extension

• Prepare the ground for an additional 3sqm of path
• Excavate the ground by 250mm
• Supply and lay crush concrete, mot type 1 and geotex membrane
• Supply and lay 3sqm of the same porcelain tiles as the existing pathway

Gravel Pathway

• Prepare the ground for a new 13sqm of gravel pathway
• Excavate the ground
• Supply and lay crush concrete, and geotex membrane
• Supply and install steel edging surrounding the gravel pathway to hold the gravel in one place
• Supply and spread decorative aggregates