Do you offer garden design in Kingston upon Thames?

Yes. Flourish Landscaping provides full garden design and landscaping services across Kingston upon Thames, including the KT1 and KT2 postal districts. Our in-house designer works with clients from initial brief through to completed build.

Are you an accredited landscaping company?

Yes. Flourish Landscaping holds accreditations with the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL), TrustMark, Gardeners Guild, Institute of Horticulture (IoH) and the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA). The business is led by Craig Davis, who holds a BSc (Hons) in Horticulture.

How much does garden landscaping cost in Kingston?

The cost of garden landscaping in Kingston varies depending on the size and scope of the project. Flourish Landscaping offers a design fee proposal at the start of each project, covering design, construction drawings and project management. Contact us on 020 8399 0533 or at hello@flourishlandscaping.co.uk to discuss your garden.

What areas near Kingston do you cover?

In addition to Kingston upon Thames, Flourish Landscaping works across Surbiton, Richmond, Twickenham and the wider Surrey area. Our base in Surbiton means we are well placed to serve the whole of South West London.

Garden design in Kingston

Design, build and maintain

Flourish Landscaping designs, builds and maintains private gardens right across Kingston upon Thames, from the town centre and Norbiton out to Coombe and Kingston Hill. We can take a garden through the whole journey, from first design to long-term care, or step in at a single stage. The business is led by Craig Davis, who holds a BSc (Hons) in Horticulture and brings more than 30 years of practical experience, with three generations of horticulture running through the work.

Few areas span as wide a range of gardens as Kingston. At one end are the modest Victorian terraces of Norbiton, on roads such as Cobham Road and Clevedon Road, where small back-to-back plots call for clever space planning and privacy. At the other are the substantial gardens of the Coombe estate and Kingston Hill.

We are equally at home with a compact courtyard and a large estate garden, and our approach responds to the property rather than imposing a single house style.

What we do in Kingston

We provide a complete garden design, landscaping and maintenance service across Kingston upon Thames, with work shaped around the property, soil, access, planting conditions and how the garden needs to be used.

Garden design and build
Patios, paths, paving and decking
Planting design and installation
Fencing, screening, pergolas and garden structures
Victorian tiled paths and period front garden restoration
Drainage, levels and clay soil improvement
Regular garden maintenance

Garden design in Kingston

Every project begins with a proper reading of the site and how you intend to live in it. Our garden design and build service turns that into a considered scheme, and for clients who want everything resolved before work starts, we provide scaled designs and plans with layouts, levels and written planting schemes.

The town’s smaller terraced gardens bring their own design challenges, often tight on width, short on side access, and overlooked on more than one boundary. These are exactly the conditions we enjoy resolving, whether the answer is a well-proportioned courtyard garden, a clever side return, or careful screening to restore a sense of privacy between back-to-back plots.

Garden build and landscaping in Kingston

Once a design is agreed, our team carries out the construction, covering the full range of hard and soft landscaping. This includes patios, paths and driveways laid on properly engineered foundations, fencing and screening, and garden features and structures such as pergolas and raised terraces.

As established landscapers in Kingston, we also build decking to suit the setting, from hardwood decking for a warm, natural finish to hard-wearing composite decking where low upkeep matters, set over properly levelled, well-ventilated foundations. Where a smaller garden needs to look good with little upkeep, we also design dedicated low-maintenance gardens that hold their structure year-round.

Victorian tiled paths and period front walls

Kingston and Norbiton’s Victorian terraces, on streets such as Cobham Road and Clevedon Road, often keep their original front gardens, and these reward a careful, period-sensitive hand.

We restore and lay geometric and encaustic tiled front paths in the traditional way: lifting and re-bedding sound original tiles, sourcing replacements to match the original patterns and colours, and laying the paths on a correctly prepared base so they sit true and wear well. The unglazed encaustic and geometric tiles used on these paths are naturally hard-wearing, and a lost or damaged section can be rebuilt faithfully to the original design.

We also rebuild and repair period front garden walls, including traditional dwarf walls in brick or render, with proper piers and copings and, where appropriate, reinstated railings or gates. These are bedded in lime mortar with reclaimed or closely matched bricks, so the finished wall reads as original rather than added.

Within Kingston’s conservation areas we keep materials and detailing in keeping with the street and the house, and can pair the work with sympathetic fencing and screening or other garden features to complete the frontage.

Restored Victorian encaustic tiled front path in black, white and grey leading to a navy front door, with reinstated brick walls and wrought-iron railings on a period property in Norbiton, Kingston upon Thames, by Flourish Landscaping — A restored Victorian tiled front path, Norbiton, Kingston

Garden maintenance in Kingston

Our garden maintenance service keeps planting healthy and the whole space in balance as it establishes, carried out by trained horticulturists who understand seasonal timing, correct pruning, lawn care and hedge work.

We tailor each programme to the garden, from the regular care of a small or low-maintenance space in Norbiton, to the upkeep of a larger garden in Coombe, to scheduled communal garden maintenance for the riverside apartment blocks around Canbury and North Kingston.

Kingston ground conditions and local considerations

Much of Kingston sits on heavy London Clay, which holds water in winter, shrinks and cracks in summer, and has a direct bearing on drainage, lawns and planting.

Getting the soil right is the foundation of everything that follows, which is why we put real care into improving clay soil, opening up its structure rather than working against it.

Clay-tolerant planting earns its place here too, and dependable performers such as Geranium ‘Rozanne’, Viburnum opulus and Hydrangea paniculata feature regularly in our Kingston schemes. Where heavy ground leads to persistent waterlogging, our flooded garden solutions resolve the problem at its source rather than masking it.

Recent work in Kingston

We have completed a wide range of projects across Kingston, including this low-maintenance family garden, an entertaining-led garden, and a riverside transformation near the Thames. You can see more in our portfolio.

From plan to planting

A peek behind the scenes of a recent Kingston project, the scaled planting plan we drew up, set beside the finished garden it became.

Flourish Landscaping scaled planting plan for a Kingston upon Thames garden, showing the layout and plant placements — The scaled planting plan

Courtyard garden with porcelain paving and a blue bistro set, by Flourish Landscaping — The finished garden

From scaled planting plan to finished garden.

Why choose Flourish Landscaping in Kingston

Genuine, street-level knowledge of Kingston, from Norbiton terraces to the Coombe estate
Equally at home with a compact courtyard or a large estate garden
Design, build and maintenance handled in-house, with one point of contact throughout
Degree-qualified horticultural expertise behind every plant choice
Independently accredited by APL, TrustMark, the Institute of Horticulture, the Gardeners Guild and the HTA
Fully insured, with transparent written proposals and no hidden extras

Areas we cover near Kingston

As well as Kingston, we regularly work in Coombe, Surbiton, New Malden, Ham and Richmond. If your address falls just outside these areas, please do still get in touch.

Discuss your Kingston garden

If you are considering a new garden, structural landscaping works or ongoing maintenance in Kingston, we would be pleased to visit, walk the site and talk through what you are hoping to achieve. Initial consultations are without obligation, with clear and honest guidance on what would work well for your garden, your budget and your timescale.

Contact us today to arrange a free consultation.