Chalfont St Peter Garden Design & Landscaping

Chalfont St. Giles

Natural sandstone, textured walls and generous planting transformed this terraced garden at Brayfield Lane in Chalfont St Giles.

The recently renovated property needed an outdoor space that complemented the home. The finished garden combines places to sit, carefully detailed steps and a distinctive water feature, bringing the different levels together.

For Steve and Rees at S&R Landscapes, the quality of a garden lies in how these elements work together. Thoughtful material choices, careful construction and planting with room to develop all contribute to a space you can enjoy for years.

Natural Stone and Carefully Finished Landscaping

Buff sandstone paving, laid in a varied pattern, creates a warm foundation for the garden. Colour-matched pointing complements the stone, while split-face wall cladding introduces a contrasting texture. Bespoke coping stones give the walls a clean, considered finish.

Concrete cast on site adds a contemporary detail. A solid bench provides a place to sit among the planting, away from the house, while matching concrete step edges connect this feature with the wider landscaping.

These details give each part of the garden its own purpose while maintaining a consistent palette across the terraces.

A Water Feature with a Distinctive Backdrop

Charred timber creates a dark backdrop to the zinc water feature, allowing its lighter finish to stand out. Several water blades bring movement and a gentle sound to the garden.

The timber also appears in the wood storage, repeating the material elsewhere in the scheme. Alongside the pale sandstone and textured walls, it adds depth to the garden without overwhelming the planting.

Planting for Texture, Colour and Evening Interest

Multi-stemmed trees introduce height and shape, with individual uplighting extending their presence into the evening. Heptacodium brings abundant flowers, while Portuguese laurel hedging provides a green boundary with subtle red stems.

Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ sits to one side of the garden, balancing the scheme with its rich foliage. Ornamental rhubarb adds bold leaves and contrasting texture.

The planting also includes agapanthus, foxgloves, echinacea, ferns, hellebores and oak-leaved hydrangea. Grasses and ground-cover plants soften the landscaping, creating layers of foliage and flowers around the seating and paths.

Steve and Rees bring this same consideration to their garden projects: combining the structure of hard landscaping with planting that makes the space feel welcoming.

Materials Used in the Garden

Beige sandstone coping stones — London Stone.
Buff sandstone paving — CED Stone.
Split-face stone cladding — Real Stone Cladding.
Water feature — A Place in the Garden.
Trees — Deepdale Trees.
Plants — Babylon Plants.

Planning a Garden in Chalfont St Giles?

Steve and Rees design and professionally landscape gardens in Chalfont St Giles and the surrounding areas. From terraced gardens and natural stone paving to bespoke features and planting, they can help you create an outdoor space that suits your home and the way you want to use it.

Talk to Steve and Rees about your garden project.

Garden design: Karl Harrison.

Our approach

We believe a well-designed garden should be a pleasure to live in, thoughtfully built and made to last.

For us, good design starts with listening. We take time to understand how you want to use your garden, what matters to you and the character of your home.

We bring the same care to construction as we do to design. From the preparation beneath a patio to the finishing details around a border, each part contributes to the quality of the whole garden.

We favour materials suited to their purpose and planting that can thrive in its surroundings. We consider how your garden will mature and how much maintenance you want, creating a space you can enjoy for years to come.

Steve & Rees

Throughout the process he and his team have worked tirelessly to ensure we received the best design, consideration and implementation of our brief.

As a landscaper, he is a professional and did a brilliant job and completed when he said he would in a calm and measured way.

Steve and Rees worked hard in all weathers, to create a beautiful garden for us. I would highly recommend Karl and his team to create some magical for you, and to do it really well.

Rees came up with an imaginative design that has brought interest, variety and colour. The landscaping Steve, Rees and their team did was excellent and they were a pleasure to work with too.

Steve and his team were skilled and friendly, and the results were amazing. They were professional and always left things tidy. Would highly recommend.

Fast efficient service from a passionate professional who puts his competitors to shame. Excellent work at reasonable prices. You’d be mad not to use him.

What a professional garden landscape artist does is give you something that you would never do yourself. Highly recommended.

All the team were exceptionally professional, hardworking, polite and tidy. We are thrilled with the results and thoroughly recommend this business.

I could not have wished for better. I would recommend Rees, Steve and their team to you all. I could not fault them in any way and it was an absolute pleasure to work with them.

Very efficient team, hard workers and really nice people too! Great job with a really uniform finish on a complex-shaped deck. Neat workers, clearing up each evening, and finally leaving my garden and garage in perfect order.

From start to finish-excellent service and he has transformed my garden. I’m now in love with my garden and will be spending many happy hours out there.Before and After pictures - excellent transformation

Very professional, knowledgeable, and friendly. Great design and helpful discussions, making sure we got the best results. Would not hesitate to recommend.

Steve & Rees did an excellent job. From initial design considerations to preparation and installation. The team worked well and on time to transform our garden with Trex decking.

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We adapt to the needs of every client, fluent in a combination of traditional techniques ensuring the hard landscaping works in harmony with the soft planting, garden art and style in your garden.