Sara Ekstrand Garden Design

Sara transformed my ugly duckling of a garden into a beautiful swan! Working with Sara was a total pleasure. I am no gardener and Sara somehow took my vague ideas and turned them into a garden I could never have imagined. She managed the perfect balance of listening and suggesting, to end up with a garden I absolutely love! I highly recommend Sara!

Sara was great to work with. She produced us a fabulous bespoke garden design containing every aspect, big and small, we had discussed.

My husband and I are absolutely delighted with the garden has Sara designed for us. We approached Sara for help because the whole of our garden needed a redesign. It mainly consisted of grass lawns and an old slab patio and stepping stone pathways, it was tired and needed a new lease of life. Additionally, problem areas required addressing, such as, a very dry unusable area under a large tree, uneven sloping ground, and contrasting areas of deep shade and full sun. Because of these issues and others, we were unsure of how to tackle the redesign ourselves and ascertain what was realistic and achievable within our budget. Therefore we commissioned Sara to design a new garden and produce a planting plan within a specified budget. Sara, who is very client focused, listened to our ideas and initial specifications to produce a series of mood boards and draft plans to engender further discussion. Although Sara always listened to our views, with her design experience and know how, she gently stretched our comfort zones by introducing alternative ideas/materials for our consideration, most of which we loved and were incorporated into the final design. (The decking around the tree is one such example, providing a shaded seating area to spectacularly utilise what had been a 'dead' area) . Sara produced comprehensive final plans and illustrations from which the garden was constructed. Additionally she produced the planting plan which took into account our plant and planting style preferences. The final result is stunning and all within budget, we love our garden. We cannot recommend Sara highly enough.

Sara is working with us to develop a large scale garden for our co-working space and business centre, Spithurst Hub, in Barcombe. It has from the very start been a real pleasure to work with Sara. She is very good at listening to what we as clients want, but she also puts her own views across confidently yet sensitively, based on her experience. The work is being undertaken in stages and Sara has proved to be flexible and adaptable in relation to helping us work to our budget. We are extremely happy with the bee and butterfly friendly planting plan she put in place for our heavy clay soil and it is impressive how well the plants have taken in a short space of time. In our experience, Sara is a reliable, professional, knowledgeable and friendly garden designer with a true passion for plants and design. She is able to combine flair with practical and functional solutions in an impressive way. We can highly recommend Sara Ekstrand Garden Design.