Garden design
Masterplans, concept design and detailed drawings for gardens of every scale, from a courtyard in Marlow to a twelve-acre estate on the Downs. Surveys, planning support and 3D visuals included.
ExploreAmersham · The Chilterns · Est. 2011
Gardens that grow more beautiful every year.
We are an award-winning landscape design studio creating gardens, meadows and courtyards that belong to their landscape: designed with intent, built to last, planted for the long story.
The studio
Rooted in the Chilterns, at home in any landscape.
Hartwell & Moss was founded in 2011 by garden designer Eleanor Hartwell and landscape craftsman Tom Moss, working from a converted dairy on the edge of Amersham. Fifteen years on, we remain a deliberately small studio, where every garden is designed, built and planted by the same hands from first sketch to final mulch.
We believe a garden should feel inevitable: as if it had always been there, waiting to be uncovered. That means honest materials, plants chosen for soil rather than fashion, and designs that reward patience.
- Design, build and planting under one roof
- Registered members of the Society of Garden Designers
- Peat-free, pesticide-conscious, wildlife-first planting
What we do
Four crafts, one continuous thread.
Landscape build
Our in-house build team crafts the bones of the garden: stone, oak, brick, steel and water. One team, one standard, no hand-offs. The people who drew it are the people who build it.
ExplorePlanting design
Naturalistic, layered planting matched to your soil, aspect and appetite for maintenance. Peat-free nursery stock, meadow establishment and planting plans you can actually read.
ExploreSeasonal care
A garden is a beginning, not an ending. Our horticulturists return through the seasons to edit, prune and renew, so the design matures the way it was drawn.
ExploreSelected work
Recent gardens.
Country garden · Great Missenden
Orchard House
A forgotten Victorian orchard brought back as the heart of a family garden.
Restoration · Henley-on-Thames
The Walled Garden
An eighteenth-century kitchen garden, rebuilt brick by brick.
Meadow & rewilding · Wendover
Chalk Downs Meadow
Four acres of amenity lawn returned to chalk downland flora.
Courtyard · Marlow
Linden Courtyard
A small town garden that lives largest after dark.
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0Plants planted last year
0Clients who return or refer
How it works
From first walk to final planting.
Every project follows the same unhurried path. You will always know where you are, what happens next, and what it costs.
Walk & listen
We visit, walk the ground with you, and listen. Soil, light, views, and the way you actually live, before a single line is drawn.
Concept & masterplan
Sketches, moodboards and a scaled masterplan. We iterate together until the garden feels like yours, then fix the budget.
Build & plant
Our own team builds in tidy, well-communicated phases. Planting comes last, timed to the season, never to the calendar.
Grow together
We return through the first years to edit and adjust. A Hartwell & Moss garden is at its best a decade after we leave.
Kind words
What our clients say.
They gave us a garden we didn’t know we wanted and now can’t imagine living without. Three years on, it just keeps getting better, exactly as they promised it would.
The rare firm that turns up when they say, builds what they drew, and leaves the place tidier than they found it. The walled garden is the best thing we have ever done to this house.
The journal
Notes from the studio.
Stop fighting your clay: a planting palette that loves heavy soil
Chilterns clay breaks hearts and spades in equal measure. Here are the plants that genuinely thrive in it: no gypsum, no grit, no gimmicks.
Rewilding a small garden without letting it turn into a wasteland
“Wild” and “abandoned” are not the same thing. How to bring meadow, deadwood and water into a suburban plot and keep it looking intentional.
Begin
Your garden is waiting to be uncovered.
Tell us about your plot, your soil and your ambitions. Initial consultations are free, unhurried and entirely without obligation.
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