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Hortus Pink

We provide consultative domestic garden design and hard landscaping, harnessed with beautiful, sustainable planting schemes. Delivered in 3 core phases - DESIGN | BUILD | PLANT, our services are adjusted specifically to suit your needs, budget and preferred aesthetic. A Hortus Pink garden will last for years to come.

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We are based out of Essex. Whether it’s a small townhouse courtyard for the city worker, a large family garden with children and pets to consider, or a seaside bungalow garden for a retired couple, all types of garden can be enhanced to improve your life at home.

 

We pay special attention to the details of every project to ensure the complete satisfaction of each client. Our goal is to enhance the exterior of your home or workplace, raise your property value, and beautify your whole garden space.

 

DESIGN - Consultation and design services - Your requirements are unique, especially when combined with your budget, garden situation and lifestyle needs. A garden design consultation will let you ask questions and for us to help you determine what's important to include. We will listen to your ideas and requests, help shape a garden vision and ensure it fits your lifestyle for the long term. You will receive creative ideas to help refine your vision, a Pinterest mood board, a customised hand drawn design (Master Plan) and perspective illustration on paper, along with a high level planting mood board. This is priced based on the size of the garden and complexity of design requirement.

 

BUILD - Quality landscaping that lasts - Our hard landscaping will enhance the garden around your property and provide structure. Piecing the different build elements together and connecting your property to the garden takes planning and structural inspiration. We can do the heavy lifting and build the design for you with our expert building and hard landscaping team. To do this, we engage and manage our build services using a sub-contracted network of professional landscapers, builders and tradespeople.

 

PLANT- Beautiful sustainable planting schemes - Complimentary planting, the art and technique of helping your garden achieve its full potential, is our passion. When stylish planting schemes are added, the ‘wow-factor’ takes your careful garden investment to a whole new level. Our planting schemes aim to provide year round interest and can cover many styles, from contemporary to traditional, tropical to english cottage garden, minimalist to maximalist, and so much more. Living in the UK within our dryer county of Essex, we aim to incorporate a degree of ecologically balanced dry garden schemes to reduce the need for watering. Connecting a property to its landscape by adding planted beauty, form, fragrance, colour, movement and structure is an exciting addition to modern garden life. To do this, we utilise a national network trade growers and wholesale plant providers on our planted projects to get the best quality and can price to any planting budget. We also provide aftercare guidance and support in a way that suits each client and their plant knowledge.

 

We are a member of the Horticultural Trades Association/ Association of Professional Landscapers; pre-member of the Society of Garden Designers (and Essex cluster leader); and a TrustMark registered business. Our business is covered with Professional Indemnity Insurance and Public Liability Insurance. All our projects involve written proposals, terms and conditions and stage payments. Our VAT number is 433546988.

Accessible Gardens

Border Preparation

Design & Build

Design only (Designer)

Domestic

Domestic & Commercial

Fencing

Garden Clearance

Garden Maintenance

Grounds Maintenance

Hard Landscaping / Paving

Hedge / Tree Planting & Aftercare

Lawn Care & Treatment

Lighting

Planting

Ponds & Water Features

Professional Gardener

Pruning

Soft Landscaping

Synthetics & Composites

Turfing

Project Shelly

A garden design, build and plant project in Tiptree, Essex. Built in early April 2024, this garden is set to mature over the summer. The new porcelain patio, adjusted garden levels, sunken seating, arches and decorative stone areas all provide a strong backdrop to the soft landscaping of lawn and planting.

  • Budget20K
  • DateApril 2024
  • LocationEssex
Project Shelly completion image
Project Shelly completion image
Project Shelly illustration
The garden before work started

Project Branscombe

Back garden design and build. Removed the lawn and inserted a round lawn with water feature, pathway, seating area and planting.

  • Budget10K
  • DateMarch 2023
  • LocationEssex
Near completion as we were planting
Before and during the build
Garden on completion in June 2023
Garden on completion in June 2023

Project Marlowe

Small front garden design and build. Shingle dry garden with a no-lawn scheme for low maintenance yet chic look.

  • Budget10K
  • DateAugust 2023
  • LocationEssex
Completed project August 2023
Completed project August 2023
Before and after
Garden art and ferns

Project Maroondah

Design and build project. A contemporary garden with paired back planting. The design covers shady and sunny positions and retains views across farmland. The no-lawn scheme and wide pea shingle walkways provide a lower maintenance garden.

  • Budget30K
  • DateMarch 2024
  • LocationEssex
 illustration and before picture
Features and planting at build completion
Build in progress
Structural planting grid

Project Queensberry

Design and build project featuring hard and soft landscaping.

  • Budget18K
  • DateMarch 2023
  • LocationEssex
Comletion image
illustration and before image
Seating area
Planting and sculpture

Project Norman 2

Design and build for a front garden and side vegetable area. 120m driveway, front garden (hard landscaping, lawn and planting), front brick wall, fencing, raised vegetable beds, patio, shed.

  • Budget55K
  • DateAugust 2023
  • LocationEssex
Before and after
Planted area
Garden section

Project Sunny

New build house needed a garden with character. Exposed and windy site with open fields towards the coast.

  • Budget50K
  • DateMarch 2022
  • LocationEssex
Project Sunny
Raised sunset patio and moongate
Mature planting
Before and after
Project Sunny illustration

Project Discovery

Back garden design for a build project. Patio, pathways and stepping stones, storage areas, decorative stone areas, pet safe area, dry garden, all planting

  • Budget27K
  • DateJanuary 2021
  • LocationEssex
Garden design illustration

Project Norman

Back garden design, build and plant project. Multiple patio's to chase the sun around the garden. Vibrant planting scheme and dry garden centrepiece.

  • Budget35K
  • DateNovember 2022
  • LocationEssex
Back garden sunset patio
Footpaths, textures and perspectives
Sunset patio and raised beds for height
Insect paradise

What our customers are saying

We would like to thanks Zoe and the team for turning our drab and featureless garden into a stylish and beautifully planted space that we love to spend time in.

Sonia Bartley, Essex

At the time we felt a little overwhelmed with all the new plants, but it has been really lovely to stand back and admire all our garden. There is so much tooom at and little pops of colour even in Autumn. And although Paul was reluctant to dig up his garden, even he agrees it looks so much better. Thank you so much for all your hard work and advice.

Anita Gray, Essex

Good professional service from design phase to implementation. Good service including hard landscaping, garden design, planting and aftercare. Any small issues or concerns were resolved efficiently. Hard landscapers very hard working and diligent. Time taken to ensure all the plants and garden meets family needs and all follow up.

Steven Goate, Essex

I would like to say the biggest “thank you” not only for giving my garden a beautiful refresh, but also restoring my love of gardening. There is nothing I like more now than to potter or to sit and just wonder t the magic of it all. Your design skills and work ethic are second to none. Plus you listened to my likes and dislikes and designed a garden which is ready for our changing climate.

Jacquie Dixon, Essex

We are over the moon with both our back and front gardens, everything from our first chats with Zoe felt right. Landscaping sounded very grand to us and with Zoe, and later the team, we knew we had made the right choice. Zoe had inspirational ideas and worked with us and no matter how large or small the project ended up she listened and made us feel comfortable as we worked through the ideas. We cannot fault Hortus Pink at all, so helpful, professional and friendly with such an eye for design. Would totally recommend 100%

Gill Burden, Essx

From the initial design consultation, through to the final touches after completion, Zoe has provided an excellent service: reliable, prompt, efficient, professional, knowledgeable and with a fantastic work ethic. She listened to our ideas and used her experience to create exactly what we wanted - and more. We now have a beautiful space filled with textures, colours, light and shade which we can’t wait to use.

Mark Harris, Essex

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1 Viking Way
Clacton on sea
Essex
CO155TL