Garden design tailored to suit your lifestyle. Based in Bristol and covering Bath, Iron Butterfly Design offers bespoke and inspirational garden and landscape design. From rural retreats to urban outdoor spaces, we will bring your vision to life creating your ideal garden. Contact us now for a obligation free consultation.
By working closely with you we can transform your garden. We firmly believe that effective garden design produces well-designed spaces where functionality is equally as important as aesthetics. This approach ensures you get the most from your garden. Our previous designs, include courtyards, small town gardens and roof terraces.
As well as larger rural gardens and living walls. Each garden is bespoke, and we pride ourselves on working together with the landscape contractor, to deliver a garden you will enjoy for years to come.
By working closely with you we can transform your garden. We firmly believe that effective garden design produces well-designed spaces where functionality is equally as important as aesthetics. This approach ensures you get the most from your garden. Our previous designs, include courtyards, small town gardens and roof terraces.
As well as larger rural gardens and living walls. Each garden is bespoke, and we pride ourselves on working together with the landscape contractor, to deliver a garden you will enjoy for years to come.
Services
Iron Butterfly offers a full garden design service from initial consultation and concept sketches to masterplans, planting and lighting plans and construction drawings. We produce CAD designs to easily communicate the design vision and provide clarity and precision in our construction drawings. Should you require planning permission we can manage your submission on your behalf.
The clients of this courtyard garden Shirehampton wanted a radical transformation to give them somewhere for relaxation after work and on weekends. A series of intimate spaces was created by interconnecting and stand alone raised beds. Stepping out of the kitchen-diner a composite deck adjoins the house where a built-in bench of composite decking nestles between raised beds.
After renovation of this Redland townhouse in Bristol, attention turned to a generously sized but under utilised family garden. The over-riding issue to address was access from the internal kitchen-diner to the garden. A narrow area, only a metre in depth, separated the house wall and one metre high retaining garden wall.
The house in Redland was due to be renovated with the client wanting to create a courtyard garden that complimented the internal spaces. Two rooms would over look the space and so it was important to maintain year-round appearance whilst also building a highly practical space for the family including young children.
Key in this plant lover's garden was to incorporate as many of the existing plants as possible. All weather solutions were also important giving flexibility to enjoy the garden come rain or come shine. The side return and main terrace are both paved in riven slate. The main terrace is the perfect spot to capture the morning sun.
Reviews (7)
Alison Hicks
Jun 03, 2023
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Working with Claire has definitely been my best decision of 2022/2023 - looking out at our incredible, beautifully designed tiny garden makes me smile every day. My husband and I still fight to sit in the seat that looks out on onto our new green space and it is an amazing treat to be able to take my lunch outside in the sun. We are super grateful to Claire for making this dream come true and it was a pleasure to work with her from start to finish. Claire is knowledgeable, creative, organised, professional, a great communicator and a lovely person to boot- I really couldn’t have hoped for the project to go any better. It has been worth every penny and more and I would contract Claire again for a similar job in a heartbeat.
Suffia Khanan
Jan 07, 2021
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Iron Butterfly created the most beautiful design and build for my tiny garden, turning it into a gorgeous, tranquil space. It was an easy process working with Claire, who listened and reassured me at every stage, understanding how personal this process can be, she went above and beyond, and always professional.
She used beautiful quality materials and planting and always kept to the brief and on track and budget throughout.
I’m so happy with the result, makes me smile every time I look out.
She used beautiful quality materials and planting and always kept to the brief and on track and budget throughout.
I’m so happy with the result, makes me smile every time I look out.
Sarah Nadin
Nov 05, 2018
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We had an absolutely fantastic experience using Iron Butterfly Designs. The final result is stunning, we absolutely love our new back and front gardens. The design was so creative and came up with something we would never have thought of ourselves. Even better however was the service and the experience. Claire is clearly hugely knowledgable about plants and landscaping, but was also highly professional and a complete delight to work with. Nothing was too much trouble and she frequently went well over and above to be flexible to our requirements. The design was beautiful, the service and experience
Lindsey Prescott Mears
Sep 08, 2018
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Claire of Iron Butterfly Design has created a perfect space for a pair of hard-working non gardeners! Claire worked hard to create a garden with interesting spaces & textures in a small plot. Guiding us through the planning process she took our visions of how we wanted to use the space on board and fashioned a low maintenance, relaxing space we can enjoy throughout the year.
Staying on hand throughout the build she working closely with the landscapers (Rescape) & provided detailed planting plans, plants and maintenance schedules for us novices and keeps in regular contact to ensure the garden
Staying on hand throughout the build she working closely with the landscapers (Rescape) & provided detailed planting plans, plants and maintenance schedules for us novices and keeps in regular contact to ensure the garden
Clare Downey
Dec 14, 2016
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Claire provided us with 3 fantastic designs for our back garden for us to choose from. We would never have considered using a garden designer before but she has made a relatively small boring garden look amazing and a pleasure to be in. She understood our budget constraints and worked with the landscapers to make sure everything was done to our satisfaction. She has even kept in touch to make sure all the planting is establishing itself.
Steven Aideloje
Jul 21, 2015
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Claire of Iron Butterfly Design is an exceptional garden designer with a fabulous eye for detail as well as deep knowledge and expertise about plants. She is clearly passionate about her work and this shines through in her work ethic and dedication to the job. We were very fortunate to find Claire last year (our garden is the Childs Hill courtyard garden featured on her website) when we were doing major renovation work and she immediately stood out from other garden designers we interviewed . Not only was her fee very reasonable, she was also happy to work to our budget and tailor the project to
Arthur Daw
May 26, 2015
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