We will discuss your needs and work with you to create a carefully planned functional design. The garden plan is an accurately scaled hand drawing indicating specific features and plants best suited for your site conditions. The plan provides the opportunity to explore creative and artistic alternatives that will most suit your lifestyle.

For more information: tennentgardendesign@gmail.com

Explore a wide variety of urban and rural garden designs.

Benefits of a Garden Design

Garden Design Package

Master Plan: Illustrates all plant material and any other features that will create a complete detailed plan of your site.

Multi Stage Advice: A step by step guide for building your own garden, including advice on material selection, where to buy, material amounts and planting bed preparation.

Customised Maintenance Advice: Information for keeping your low maintenance garden in good shape. Watering amounts for newly installed gardens, tips and advice on planting, soil preparation, fertilising, pruning and care of specialty plants.

Elaine Tennent is the owner of Tennent Garden Design. She graduated with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree at the University of Guelph in 1993, and Bachelor of Environmental Studies at Waterloo in 1988. She has worked as an exhibit designer at the Metro Toronto Zoo, and as a park designer for the City of Gloucester near Ottawa.

Elaine has over 25 years of experience in design, gardening, maintenance and landscape construction. Her extensive design build experience and horticultural knowledge allows her designs to incorporate clients' lifestyle needs with striking, innovative landscapes.