Garden Design Ideas for Wimbledon Gardens

In Wimbledon, most gardens attached to terraced and semi-detached houses run long and narrow rather than wide - which means a good design is less about how much you can fit in and more about how well the space is divided up.

What tends to work well

Access is the recurring theme for garden work in Wimbledon, just as it is for extensions: on terraced streets without side access, materials like paving slabs, soil and turf often have to be carried through the house, which adds labour time that a detached property with a side gate wouldn't incur. Gardens near Wimbledon Common and the All England Lawn Tennis Club or within the Wimbledon North, West Wimbledon and John Innes conservation areas occasionally have mature trees protected by a Tree Preservation Order, which restricts what can be removed or pruned without council permission - worth checking before a design is finalised.

For the narrow plots typical of Wimbledon, a landscaper who plans zones (dining, planting, storage) along the length of the garden rather than trying to fit everything in a single open layout usually gets a better result than a generic "full redesign" template - it's worth asking to see photos of gardens of a similar size and shape before you commit.

What it typically costs

• Basic tidy-up (turfing, planting, fencing): roughly £1,500-£4,000
• Mid-range redesign (patio, borders, new fencing, lighting): roughly £5,000-£12,000
• Full landscaping (hard landscaping, decking, irrigation, garden room base): £12,000-£25,000+

Rear gardens that back onto a kitchen extension are often designed together with the extension itself, since the level of the new patio or doors usually needs to work with the extension's floor height.