Garden Design Somerset
Whether you have a cottage garden in the Mendips, a family home near Wells, or a rural property on the Somerset Levels, we offer a complete garden design service—from initial consultation through to working with trusted landscapers to bring your garden to life.
Wild Butterfly Gardening brings sustainable, biodiverse garden design to Somerset from our base near Glastonbury. We work with homeowners across the county to create outdoor spaces that are beautiful, wildlife-friendly, and designed to thrive with minimal maintenance.
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Garden Design
From initial consultation and site survey to detailed 3D concepts and planting plans, our design process is thorough and collaborative, ensuring your vision becomes a reality.
Consultancy
We can help with troublesome areas, best locations for patios or pergolas as well as ideas for planting schemes with our consultancy service
Landscaping
Our team works with trusted contractors or your preferred choice to deliver exceptional results, including add-ons such as lighting, irrigation, and garden furniture.
Planting
Our expertise extends to designing and implementing planting schemes for full gardens, raised beds, window boxes, edible garden schemes, and troublesome areas, as well as lawn installation and maintenance.
Maintenance
Choose from regular, seasonal, or one-off MOTs to keep your garden in optimal condition throughout the year.
Bring Sustainable and Biodiverse Style to Any Garden.
We offer garden design, consultancy, and project management for gardens of all sizes across Somerset. Our process begins with understanding how you want to use your space, what draws you outside, and what frustrates you about your current garden.
From there, we develop detailed designs including 3D visuals and planting plans, so you can see exactly how your garden will look before any work begins. When you're ready to build, we manage the project with our network of trusted landscapers and contractors, ensuring the design is executed to the standard we've agreed.
Our services include full garden transformations, border renovations, planting schemes for specific areas, and consultancy sessions for those who want expert guidance but prefer to do the work themselves.
A Stylish and Scalable Team
We established our Somerset base to better serve clients across the South West. While our London studio handles projects across the capital and South East, our presence near Glastonbury means we can offer the same high-quality design service to Somerset, with the local knowledge that makes a real difference.
Somerset's landscape is remarkably varied. The heavy clay soils of the Levels behave very differently to the free-draining limestone around the Mendips. Coastal gardens near Burnham face salt winds, while sheltered valleys inland enjoy milder microclimates. Understanding these conditions isn't something you can learn from a textbook—it comes from working in these gardens and seeing what thrives.
We love the creative community that's grown up around Glastonbury, Frome, and the surrounding area. There's an openness to sustainable approaches here, and many of our Somerset clients share our commitment to creating gardens that work with nature rather than against it.
Areas We Cover
From our Glastonbury base, we work with clients across Somerset and into neighbouring counties. Our regular service area includes:
- Glastonbury, Street and the Central Somerset area — the heart of our Somerset operations, including the villages and market towns around the Levels.
- Wells, Cheddar and the Mendips — from the cathedral city to the hills, including Wookey, Axbridge, and the Chew Valley.
- Frome, Shepton Mallet and East Somerset — a thriving area with a strong creative community and beautiful stone properties.
- Taunton, Wellington and West Somerset — extending our reach toward Devon, including the Quantocks and Blackdown Hills.
- Bath and North East Somerset — where Somerset meets the historic city, including Midsomer Norton, Radstock, and the surrounding villages.
- Bridgwater and the Somerset Levels — the flat, characterful landscape between the Quantocks and the Mendips.
We also take on projects in North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire where they're within reasonable reach of our base.
Why Work With a Local Garden Designer?
Choosing a garden designer who knows Somerset makes a practical difference to the success of your garden. Local knowledge shapes every decision, from plant selection to material choices.
Soil and drainage
Somerset's geology creates dramatically different growing conditions within short distances. We know which plants will struggle in waterlogged clay and which will thrive in thin soil over limestone. This knowledge prevents expensive mistakes and ensures your planting scheme establishes well.
Microclimate understanding
A south-facing slope near Glastonbury Tor will bake in summer, while a north-facing garden in a Mendip valley may hold frost well into spring. We design for your specific conditions, not generic assumptions.
Local suppliers and contractors
We've built relationships with Somerset nurseries, stone suppliers, and landscaping teams. This means better material sourcing, more reliable project delivery, and gardens that feel connected to their surroundings.
Ongoing support
Being based locally means we can offer maintenance guidance and check in on how your garden is developing. Gardens evolve, and having your designer nearby makes it easier to adapt as your space matures.
Every garden we design starts with the same question: how do you want to feel when you step outside?
Some clients want a space for children to play safely while still looking beautiful. Others want a productive kitchen garden or a quiet corner to escape to after work. Many want all of these things, and our job is to find the design that delivers them without compromise.
We're led by Sarah Ferguson, who trained with the Royal Horticultural Society after a career in fashion. That background shows in our work—we think carefully about colour, texture, proportion, and how a garden changes through the seasons. But we're equally focused on ecology. Every garden we design aims to support wildlife, from pollinator-friendly planting to habitat creation.
Sustainability runs through everything we do. We favour permeable surfaces over excessive hard landscaping, specify drought-tolerant plants where appropriate, and design gardens that won't need constant intervention to look their best. A well-designed garden should become easier to maintain as it matures, not harder.
Garden Design Packages
Consultation
A half-day session where we visit your garden, discuss your ideas, and provide expert advice on how to approach problem areas, improve what you have, or plan for a larger project.
Ideal if you want professional guidance but prefer to manage the work yourself.
Border Renovation
Focused on planting, this package transforms tired borders into biodiverse, year-round schemes.
We handle the design, plant sourcing, and planting, leaving you with beds that will establish and improve over years.
Full Garden Design
Our comprehensive design service covering everything from layout and hard landscaping to detailed planting plans.
You receive full documentation to brief contractors yourself, or we can manage the build.
Design and Build
The complete service from first meeting to finished garden.
We handle everything, working with our trusted contractors to deliver your garden to an agreed specification and budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
Choosing a garden designer who knows Somerset makes a practical difference to the success of your garden. Local knowledge shapes every decision, from plant selection to material choices.
How much does garden design cost in Somerset?
Our consultation service starts at £400 for a half-day session. Border renovation projects begin at £1,100, while full garden design packages start from £3,000. For complete design and build projects, budgets typically start around £17,500 for smaller gardens, with larger or more complex projects requiring proportionally more investment. We're always happy to discuss your budget openly and suggest approaches that deliver the best value.
Do you cover my area?
We work across Somerset from our base near Glastonbury, including Wells, Frome, Taunton, Bath, Bridgwater, and surrounding villages. We also take projects in neighbouring counties where travel is practical. If you're unsure whether we cover your location, just ask—we'll give you a straight answer.
Can you work with my existing garden features?
Absolutely. Not every garden needs a complete redesign. We're experienced at working with established trees, existing structures, and features you want to keep. Often the best approach is to enhance what's already working while addressing the areas that aren't.
How long does a garden project take?
Timescales vary depending on the scope of work. A consultation can happen within a few weeks of enquiry. Design projects typically take 6-12 weeks from briefing to final plans. Build phases depend on the scale of work and contractor availability, but we'll give you realistic timelines during the design process.
Do you only design sustainable gardens?
Sustainability is central to our approach, but that doesn't mean every garden has to be a wildflower meadow. We design contemporary spaces, formal gardens, family gardens, and everything in between. What unites our work is thoughtful plant selection, responsible material choices, and designs that support rather than fight against natural processes.