DANIEL COMBES GARDEN DESIGN
dorset Garden Design
Daniel Combes and his team of garden designers and landscape architects design and create gardens throughout Dorset.
From our location in Wiltshire, we are less than 10 miles from the county border with Dorset, and the market town of Shaftesbury.
Dorset is a largely rural county with fine landscapes, each with its own characteristics and sense of place, including different landforms, soils and wildlife habitats. Boasting no cities or motorways and a stunning 87 miles of coastline, areas such as The Isle of Purbecks, the Jurassic Coast and Brownsea Island provide a constant source of inspiration.
Daniel Combes Garden Design projects in Dorset are enormously varied - our work encompasses both large scale garden designs as well as more modest commissions for town and country houses, historic estates and rural landscapes.
Dorset garden design projects have included the creation of a unique garden for an ambitious new build property. We created a minimal maintenance naturalistic garden in keeping with its pastoral surrounding with far-reaching views over the Cranborne Chase ANOB.
Our garden designs are bespoke, each project is unique and personal to our clients style and the architecture of the house as well as the Dorset landscape that surrounds it. Our planting schemes often contrast a strong architectural framework with a mass of colour and scent, while the use of hard landscaping enhances each space, selecting local or repurposed materials where possible.
The County of Dorset
Dorset’s landscapes are uniquely diverse in geology, soil and climate. Poole’s natural harbour in the south along to the Jurassic coast in the west sit within the the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The countryside and wildlife have inspired poets and authors such as Thomas Hardy, William Barnes and Jane Austen. While artists such as JMW Turner, Constable and Paul Nash have been influenced by the county. Materials from the AONB landscape have made a significant contribution to artistic work around the world. For example, Purbeck stone was used in St Paul’s Cathedral and Blenheim Palace.
This diverse geology underpins the biodiversity of the county from chalk downland to limestone grassland, heathlands, wet flushes and vegetated sea cliffs. There are distinctive high points such as Melbury Hill, Bulbarrow, Hod and Hambledon Hills and the iron age hill fort of Eggardon Hill. While low areas thrive along the alluvial basins of the Frome, Piddle, Stour and Avon, four of Dorset’s main rivers which flow out to sea at Poole and Christchurch harbours.
The Blackmore Vale is an extensive, flat clay vale bordered by limestone ridges to the North West of the county.
If you have a Dorset garden design project that you wish to discuss, please contact us