Our Process.
Consultation
AQL and Wayne De Klijn, are very passionate about meeting people and discussing their horticultural and gardening interests. AQL once onsite will assess your existing site conditions and discuss a brief considering your theme, functionality and budget requirements for your project. After this initial meeting, we will submit a fee proposal outlining the Landscape Design Process, along with our fee proposal.
Concept Design
The Concept Plan includes a set of creative designs which I call a mud map that gives you a vision of your new garden. This stage includes drawings with a scaled plan, 3d images to help visualize your new garden and focal features & a proposed material palette with images.
Once the Concept Plan has been completed a consultation is organised to meet with you at location. The concept plan is presented. The concept design is left with you for some time for consideration then any amendments are made, and the next stage continues.
Planting Design
Plants play an integral role in people’s lives from visually appealing, cleansing of air to providing food and habitat. AQL pride ourselves on the knowledge of plants and selecting the right plants for you & your garden.
The Planting Plan provides a detailed plan of the selected plants and their locations within the garden. This also includes a schedule of each plant's recommended size at planting. The Planting Plan is then presented and discussed at a consultation meeting, show casing the planting schedule with plant names, flower colours, textured foliage. Plant mature height and spread and flowering season.
Construction Drawings
The Construction Plan refines the Concept Plan to include a detailed set of drawings which includes elevations, construction details, drainage requirements, levels, lighting and irrigation design.
These plans also provide notes, final material selection and surface finishes and built element sections and details.
Once the construction drawing stage is complete these plans will be ready to go to have a landscape contractor build your project.
Project Management
AQL offer a project management service where we can come on site to oversee the building process. To ensure the landscape design process is adhered to and the garden or landscape is being built to the highest quality.
All relevant documentation, meeting notes and payments schedules is provided to our client for the project management process.
Additional Services
- Plant Procurement
