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Landscape design & construction · Derbyshire

The garden you've been picturing,
designed and built end-to-end.

Twenty-seven years of award-winning work across Derbyshire and the Midlands. Free site visits, fixed-price quotes, and a ten-year guarantee on every project we deliver.

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Mature topiary trees lining a formal garden pathway designed by Heritage Gardens
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How we work

From first sketch to fifth-year aftercare

We work end-to-end on a small number of gardens each year. Our four-stage process keeps the vision intact from initial drawing to a fully grown garden.

01

Garden design

Every project begins with a thorough site survey and conversations about how you actually live. We translate that into bespoke concept drawings, technical plans and detailed planting schemes.

  • Site survey, soil analysis & drainage assessment
  • Concept drawings & mood boards
  • Technical plans, plant lists & specifications
  • Local authority consents where needed
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A formal garden pathway showing finished design work by Heritage Gardens
02

Hard landscaping

Patios, paths, walls, steps, water features and structural planting beds. We use Indian sandstone, porcelain, granite setts, dry-stone walling and reclaimed brick — chosen to match the architecture and weather of the site.

  • Patios, paths & driveways
  • Walls, steps & retaining structures
  • Water features & ponds
  • Pergolas, arbours & outdoor kitchens
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Hand-laid block paving with bench seating and clipped hedge borders
03

Soft landscaping

Specimen trees, herbaceous borders, hedging, lawns and meadows — chosen for the soil, the aspect, and the way the garden will be used in five and fifteen years' time. We grow much of our planting on at our nursery in Brailsford.

  • Specimen tree sourcing & planting
  • Herbaceous & mixed borders
  • Hedging, screening & topiary
  • Lawns, meadows & wildflower areas
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Established lawn and spring tulip planting outside a brick cottage
04

Aftercare & maintenance

Every garden we build comes with a ten-year aftercare plan. Seasonal visits to keep your garden in the form it was designed to grow into — pruning, replanting, soil management, and adjustments as the design matures.

  • Seasonal pruning & bed maintenance
  • Lawn care & soil management
  • Plant health monitoring
  • Ten-year design integrity guarantee
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Mature covered patio with established planting and outdoor seating
Selected work

Recent gardens

Featured project

A formal parterre for a Georgian rectory

Wirksworth, Derbyshire · Completed 2023 · Design + Build

Working within listed-building constraints and around two-hundred-year-old yew, we designed and built a formal parterre that honours the rectory's eighteenth-century roots while introducing year-round colour and a quiet seating spot at the centre.

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A formal stone pathway with mature topiary leading through the rectory garden
Family patio area with covered seating and mature planting

A family garden in three terraces

Mickleover, Derby · 2024

Design + Build
Brick cottage with new lawn and spring tulip planting

An old cottage, replanted

Ashbourne · 2024

Design
Block-paved seating area with bench beside clipped hedging

A woodland walk and seating circle

Long Eaton · 2023

Build
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Stone pathway through clipped hedges in the studio's own garden
About the studio

A small team. A short list of clients. A long view.

Heritage Gardens was founded in 1997 by David Whitfield in a barn outside Brailsford. We've stayed deliberately small ever since — a team of seven who design, build and tend each garden ourselves.

We take on around eight commissions a year, working closely with each client from first survey to fifth-year aftercare. The result is gardens that grow into themselves, looking better at year five than they did at handover.

27
Years in practice
214
Gardens delivered
9
BALI awards
What our clients say

Twenty-seven years of glowing reviews

Reviews from clients across Google, Trustpilot and direct correspondence.

★★★★★

From the first site visit to the final planting, David and the team were a pleasure to work with. The patio they built three winters ago looks better than the day they laid it.

James & Priya Patel Mickleover, Derby · 2024
M Direct review
★★★★★

Outstanding work from start to finish. The new patio is exactly what we hoped for and the team were professional throughout. Would recommend without hesitation.

Mark Thompson Ashbourne · April 2024
G via Google
★★★★★

Heritage redesigned our whole garden — borders, paving, the lot. Five years on and the planting they specified is exactly as they said it would mature. Worth every penny.

Sarah Loveridge Wirksworth · March 2024
T via Trustpilot
★★★★★ 4.9 across 87 verified reviews
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