Garden Design & Stewardship

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Bespoke Garden Design

in Bristol & the South West

Jack Dicks is a Bristol-based garden design practice working with private clients across Bristol, Bath and the Wider South West. He designs gardens that are exciting, immersive and responsive to their setting. Most importantly, he designs gardens that change the way you live.

The studio offers a full range of outdoor design services: from complete garden design and landscape design, through to bespoke planting design and garden advice and garden consultancy. Whatever the scale or scope, every project begins with careful listening and ends with a space you will never want to leave.

Jack brings a distinctive design perspective to each project, one shaped by academic training in ecology, a rigorous approach to spatial design, and the belief that a well designed landscape can change how you live.

Selected Work

A selection of recent garden design project from across Bristol, the Cotswolds and the South West. Each garden is designed for the people who use it every day.

Hoddinotts, Wiltshire

Work in Progress

A 6 acre ecological landscape design project in Wiltshire. A biodiverse chalk land ecosystem to balance wilderness with a growing family. Sensitive materiality not only works in the favour of planning applications in this AONB but creates an atmospheric space the clients will never want to leave.

Montpelier, Bristol

Summer, 2025

Spring, 2023

Hazel Woodland, Bristol

In the heart of Montpelier, Bristol, you will find a magical and unexpected hazel woodland. The client wanted to feel like she had stepping into the countryside which was achieved with a wildflower meadow and meandering paths through the woodland. Endorsed by a BBC Secret Garden executive producer, this urban sanctuary is now home to rare bird's-nest orchids, hedgehogs and many invertebrates rarely found in the city.

This Montpelier townhouse garden was built to compliment an interior renovation. It features a level threshold for seamless inside-out living. The space integrates an expansive entertainment patio and an outdoor shower within an immersive, shaded sanctuary packed with exciting planting combinations, bold winter structure, and year-round colour.

How Jack Works

  • The Process

    Every garden design project is unique, but each starts the same way: with a conversation. Get in touch for a free discovery call today.

    The process is flexible and collaborative with different levels of service offered.

    Jack brings ideas, challenges assumptions, and pushes for something better than the obvious answer. Our aim is to give you an indispensable backdrop to your life, completely woven into the fabric of your day-to-day living.

  • 01 Coversation

    A low stakes conversation about your garden, your life and what you want from your outdoor space. In this conversation, we will discuss the your main issues with the garden, your dream vision and the scope of work you want to undertake.

  • 02 Concept Design

    In this phase, I work through all the potential layouts, problem solving ideas and establish the mood direction of your garden. In our meeting, I will run through your new garden excite your imagination with what is to come.

  • 03 Detailed Design

    Full technical drawings, material specifications and planting plans. Everything needed to make this dream a reality.

  • 04 The Build

    Jack will work with trusted landscapers or collaborate with a contractor of your selection. In this project monitoring stage, you can expect regular site visits to ease any worries and keep the design on track. We can also take care of the plants and planting to ensure good horticulture is followed.

  • 05 Stewardship

    A great garden is a process, not a product. After the project is finished, we manage the ongoing evolution of your landscape. By acting as the long-term guardians of your garden, we maintain the space and guide it’s full potential.

The Process

Services

Design

Gardening

Planting