Most landscaping clients opt to hire a professional Cirencester garden landscaping team to create their perfect garden design, with all the features, planting, fencing, seating areas, play spaces and water features that are ideal for their family, lifestyle or desired aesthetic.
However, we also recognise the importance of having a beautifully landscaped garden that can add to the value of your property, make it easier to sell if you choose to relocate in the future, and ensure your home appreciates in value following the time and effort you have invested.
Today, we’re focusing on our clients in Cirencester and the wider Gloucestershire region, noting that aspects such as river flooding and the local blue clay soil content make practicalities like good drainage management essential, alongside considering frontages and driveways where off-road parking is in high demand.
Blending Aesthetic Landscaping and Features to Enhance Your Property Value
Our friendly and professional team consults with clients with every size and type of home, from those with period properties that require clever use of tight side returns and smaller front gardens to families with large lawns who want stylish entertaining spaces to make the most of their outdoor areas.
The key is always to begin any landscaping project by discussing how your garden will work best for you, regardless of whether you’d like a modern, block paved driveway, a low-maintenance composite decking space for alfresco dining, or wish to select trees, shrubs, flowers and plants that will complement your exterior.
From there, we can offer advice about the varied choices available, ensuring you achieve a balance of landscaping that fits your specifications and expectations while providing fantastic value for money and using techniques, materials and finishes that work well with the period, location and size of your home.
Experienced landscapers can often recommend ways to use sensitive landscaping, using the highest-quality timbers, stonework, and hard landscaping that slot seamlessly into the current feel and layout of your garden without clashing with the exterior of your home or making a smaller space feel cluttered and busy.
Consulting a landscaping team is also a great opportunity to discuss how to incorporate current features, such as trees, into your garden design, making them a focal point and adapting your required paving, pathways, lighting and seating to the setting.
Desirable Cirencester Garden Landscaping Features for Property Owners
Some garden features and stand-out designs often attract excellent interest if you sell your Gloucestershire property. While we’d not recommend choosing landscaping options solely based on resale value, some options can command a premium or mean the cost of a garden transformation is likely to deliver exceptional returns.
A Well-Maintained Lawn
Nothing says simplicity and aspiration like a perfect, thick, luscious lawn – and, as we’ve intimated, the groundwork and drainage prep that happens before your turf is laid are crucial to a hardwearing lawn that will continue to look incredible year after year.
Many property buyers prefer homes with well-kept gardens where they can immediately move in and enjoy the outdoor space. It’s also common for buyers to consider a home with an attractive, landscaped garden worth more, especially when they can see there are no significant tasks necessary, such as removing a soggy, muddy patch or overgrown brambles.
Planting or Fencing for Privacy
Another frequent priority is a home with a garden that offers privacy, ensuring new homeowners or those moving into the area can relax, spend quality time with friends and family, soak up the summer sun, or enjoy planting and potting in peace.
Thoughtfully designed landscaping can introduce screens, climbing shrubs or trellises, fencing panels, and sunken seating areas that offer ample privacy, making a garden in even a busy town centre feel secluded and tranquil.
Other options include graceful pergolas, which work wonderfully with screens or gentle climbing flowers. We can also suggest planters suited to tall growing plants, which create privacy while adding natural colours and scents to your seating area and borders.
Functional and Appealing Frontages
It is surprisingly common for properties with landscaped back gardens to neglect other outdoor areas, particularly smaller side returns and front gardens—often because these spaces are seen as solely practical areas for storing bins and bikes.
Your front garden or driveway can make a considerable difference to the market value of your home since the frontage is often the first thing a prospective buyer will see and also the aspect that determines whether your home has good curb appeal.
While there are numerous ways to transform an unloved functional space, you could opt for paving and planting, pathways and private off-road parking, colourful shrubs to brighten and freshen your home, or contemporary fencing or walls to aid in privacy, security and appearance.
Introducing Low-Maintenance Colour and Texture
If there’s one thing our customers ask us for most often, it is a garden that has the wow factor and is a pleasure to spend time in, but that doesn’t require hours of maintenance every month or need continual watering or tidying.
There are often misconceptions that low-maintenance gardens are stark, with little greenery or shrubs – but there are countless ways to bring vibrant, fresh colours, scents and different shapes and textures into your garden.
One solution for busy family homes is to consider an area of artificial grass, which can work well for those with children and pets, provided the turf is of the best possible quality and is installed correctly with sufficient drainage and the right foundations to keep the grass in great shape.
Other recommendations might include composite decking rather than timber for its longevity and the absence of a need to repaint or stain the decking every summer, slow-growing greenery and shrubs that don’t require regular trimming, and evergreens that retain their foliage and leaves even during the darkest winters.
An alternative is to consider ongoing maintenance services, where our professional landscaping team can return periodically or as required to give your garden a refresh, take care of any maintenance tasks, and ensure you can use your garden solely for relaxation.
For more advice about landscaping that can improve your property value or selecting features and designs that will augment how you utilise your outdoor spaces, please contact the Cotswold Paving and Landscaping team for a free quote.