Soft Landscaping & Landscape Gardening Services
Bring your outdoor vision to life with expert soft landscaping and landscape gardening from Garden Rejuvenation with Mark Harrison. Based in Hertford, we work across Hertfordshire and North London to design, create, and enhance beautiful, functional gardens that evolve with the seasons.
Whether you want to establish new lawns, create planting beds, add hedges for privacy, or completely reshape your garden’s layout, our approach blends horticultural expertise with creative design. Every project is tailored to your space, style, and needs — delivering a healthy, balanced, and visually striking garden you can enjoy year-round.
My Soft Landscaping & Landscape Gardening Services
Our soft landscaping and landscape gardening services combine skilled planting design, horticultural expertise, and practical landscaping to create or transform your garden’s living elements. This isn’t about imposing a rigid, one-size-fits-all design — it’s about enhancing the natural beauty, structure, and flow of your garden using high-quality plants, healthy soil, and creative planting arrangements.
From reworking existing spaces to establishing brand new beds, borders, and lawns, we tailor every detail to your garden’s character and your personal style. Whether we’re rejuvenating overgrown areas, adding privacy with trees and hedges, or crafting vibrant new planting schemes, each project is approached with precision, care, and a focus on long-term results.
Working With Your Existing Garden:
Tailored services to breathe new life into your garden's existing landscape and the plants you and features your garden already has:
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Space Clearing & Opening Up: Expertly clearing overgrown areas to introduce light/shade, reshaping, restoring, or redefining garden structure.
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Redefining Natural Beds: Precisely redefining/restoring shape, edges, and integrity of existing beds for improved visual appeal and plant health.
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Revised Garden Planting Arrangements: Rearranging your gardens existing flora to create new refreshing garden scenes.
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Unwanted Plant Removal: Safe, efficient removal and responsible discarding of invasive/undesirable plants.
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Wild & Overgrown Space Reworking: Expertly reshaping/recovering meadows, wild corners, or heavily overgrown spaces to bring order and beauty.
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Garden Resets & Reshapes: Transforming or redefining layout/structure of planted areas and natural contours.
New Soft Landscape & Landscape Features
I provide comprehensive services for preparing the ground and establishing key soft landscape elements:
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New Lawns & Turfing: Expert installation of vibrant, lush green spaces, including meticulous ground preparation and laying high-quality turf or precise seeding.
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New Raised Beds & Sleeper Beds: Thoughtful design and installation of structured planting areas for organised, accessible gardening.
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New Beds & Borders: Designing and creating brand-new planted spaces that burst with life, or expertly reconditioning existing beds (weeding, clearing, aerating soil, applying nutrients for optimum growth).
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Tree & Hedge Planting: Strategic and specialist planting of trees, pleached trees and hedges for shade, privacy, screening or aesthetic value, for structure or to create natural boundaries.
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Full Planting Design and Planting Services: Full planting design, plant selection and sourcing, arrangement and planting for residential gardens and commercial premises.
Landscape Enhancement & Integration
My services ensure your soft landscaping integrates seamlessly, creating a cohesive and polished outdoor aesthetic:
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New Garden Planting Arrangements: Thoughtfully rearranging and introducing new plants alongside existing flora to create brand new captivating garden scenes.
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Lawn & Garden Edging Installation: Precise redefinition of edging for beds, paths, and landscaped areas for a crisp, clean look.
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Low Maintenance Weed Suppression Solutions: Implementing effective, long-term strategies to keep planted areas tidy.
The Art of Soft Landscaping
What Soft Landscaping Means: Bringing Gardens To Life
While patios and pathways create the structure of your garden, soft landscaping is all about the living elements – the plants, healthy soil, and natural features that truly make it bloom. It's a vital part of landscape gardening, focusing on the art and science of shaping your outdoor space to create a harmonious flow, a welcoming mood, and a vibrant home for nature. At Garden Rejuvenation, I don't just add plants; I craft vibrant, thriving spaces that grow and evolve, laying the foundation for a truly beautiful garden.
My approach involves:
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Thoughtful Planting: Choosing and placing plants not just for immediate beauty, but for long-term enjoyment. This includes creating natural privacy, guiding your eye, and defining different areas in your garden. (Note: For specific planting projects, see our Residential Planting Services page).
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Healthy Soil Foundation: Meticulously preparing and enriching the ground to give your plants the best start for strong, sustainable growth.
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Natural Shaping: Working with your garden's natural contours (or creating new ones) to add balance, visual interest, and a seamless look.
This careful approach combines expert knowledge with a creative eye to build a dynamic outdoor space that changes beautifully with the seasons, creating a revitalised and welcoming garden for you to enjoy for years to come.
Our Soft Landscaping Expertise & Approach
Expertise in Action: Designing, Creating and Building with Natural Elements
At Garden Rejuvenation, I blend extensive horticultural knowledge with a keen creative touch to maximize your garden's soft landscape. Rather than adhering to rigid, formal designs, I offer a unique, flexible approach by applying individual components of garden design as, when, and where needed. This allows for far better value, choice, and creativity, offering a staged approach that evolves with your vision and budget. Whether you envision brand new planting beds, a lush new lawn, or strategically placed hedges for privacy, my aim is to deliver a perfectly prepared, healthy, balanced, inviting, and aesthetically improved outdoor space from the ground up. My expertise covers:
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New Flower Beds & Borders: Designing and creating vibrant, multi-seasonal displays.
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Raised Beds & Planters: Structured solutions for organised and accessible planting.
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Lawns & Turfed Areas: Installing lush, green carpets.
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Hedges & Privacy Screening: Cultivating natural boundaries and secluded havens.
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Planted Features & Landscape Planting: Such as pleached avenues and espaliers.
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Soil Conditioning & Improvement: Ensuring fundamental garden health.
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Natural Beds & Wild Spaces: Designing and managing biodiverse, low-maintenance areas.
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Integrating Water Features: Seamlessly integrating planted elements around tranquil water features.
Who Benefits from Professional Soft Landscaping?
My soft landscaping services are ideal for those looking to:
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Fundamentally change their garden's structure and flow using natural, living elements.
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Create brand new planting zones or comprehensively rejuvenate existing ones.
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Establish lush new lawns, dense hedges, or impactful tree plantings.
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Benefit from a flexible, component-based approach to garden development that offers better value and adapts to their evolving vision.
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Achieve a professionally designed, prepared, and immaculately finished soft landscape that dramatically improves curb appeal and enjoyment.
Service Area
Garden Rejuvenation with Mark Harrison is based in Hertford, Hertfordshire. I proudly provide professional landscape gardening and soft landscaping services throughout Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas: Hertford, Knebworth, Buntingford, Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Waltham Abbey, Cuffley, Potters Bar, Barnet, Brookmans Park, St Albans, Hatfield, and Welwyn Garden City. Additionally, I extend my services throughout London, Greater London, and Essex, bringing unparalleled expertise to your landscape project.
Serving Hertfordshire, London & Essex with Landscape Gardening & Soft Landscaping Services
Ready to transform your outdoor space with soft landscaping?
I'm here to help you achieve your vision for a beautiful, functional garden. To discuss your project, learn more about how I can assist you, and arrange an initial appointment, please email me in the first instance with:
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Your contact details
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A short description of what you'd like to achieve with your soft landscaping
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A few photos of your garden (always greatly appreciated!)
Kindest regards,
Mark
Garden Rejuvenation with Mark Harrison, 37 London Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 7LG Phone: 01992 551543 Email: mark@garden-rejuvenation.co.uk