From Initial Idea to Finished Outdoor Space — We Design and Build It All
100% FREE quote & AI garden designA beautiful garden starts with a great design. Whether you have a clear vision of what you want or no idea where to begin, Premium Landscapes provides garden design services in Leicester that take you from blank canvas to stunning outdoor living space — with an AI-powered visualisation tool that shows you exactly what the finished result will look like before a single slab is laid. Unlike garden designers who charge for drawings and hand the project to someone else to build, we design and install everything ourselves. One team, one point of contact, one fixed price.
Upload a photo of your current garden and receive a photorealistic design concept in 90 seconds — completely free. Our AI tool analyses your space and generates a visualisation based on your chosen features and budget. Perfect for homeowners who want to see a realistic preview before committing to anything.
For larger or more complex projects, we provide a full garden design service — discussing your vision in detail, surveying the site, and producing a comprehensive design that integrates every element: patio, lawn, decking, lighting, planting, fencing and water features. We then build it ourselves to the agreed specification.
If your garden already has elements you want to keep, we can redesign around them — incorporating existing trees, structures or features into a new overall scheme that transforms the space without losing what works.
Start online with our instant quote tool. Upload a photo, describe your project, and receive a free AI garden design and itemised quote in 90 seconds.
We visit your property, take precise measurements, assess ground conditions and drainage, and discuss your design preferences in detail. We look at sun position, views, access, and how you plan to use the space.
We produce a detailed design proposal including layout plan, material palette, feature specifications and project timeline. For full garden redesigns, this includes 2D layout drawings.
You receive a fixed-price contract with no hidden extras. The design is refined until you\'re completely happy before any work begins.
Our installation team builds the design to specification. You have one point of contact throughout — from the first survey to the day we hand over your finished garden.
Leicester's housing stock is wonderfully varied — from Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Clarendon Park and Stoneygate to 1930s semis in Oadby and Wigston, modern new builds in Kirby Muxloe and Narborough, and large detached properties across Blaby and Birstall. Each property type has its own garden design opportunities.
For terraced houses: Maximise compact spaces with large-format porcelain slabs that make small gardens feel bigger, vertical planting to add greenery without losing ground space, and built-in lighting to extend evening use.
For family gardens: Low-maintenance solutions like artificial grass (no mud, no mowing), composite decking for year-round outdoor living, and robust planting that looks great without constant attention.
For larger gardens: Multi-zone designs that create distinct areas for dining, relaxing, play and planting — connected by pathways and unified by consistent materials and lighting.
For front gardens: Kerb appeal-focused designs combining new driveways, planting borders, lighting and garden walling that transform a property's street presence immediately.
Garden design and installation costs vary based on garden size, material choice and project complexity. As a guide:
All design work is included in the project price — we do not charge separately for design unless you want a standalone design-only service without installation.
Use our free instant quote tool for a tailored estimate based on your specific garden and requirements.
Most garden design work we carry out in Leicester is part of a complete design-and-build project — not a standalone drawing service. We don't typically produce a set of plans for you to pass to another contractor. Instead, we work with you from initial concept to the finished garden: visiting the site, agreeing the design and materials, managing all the groundworks and installation, and leaving the site clean and complete.
This approach is more practical for most Leicester homeowners because it avoids the coordination problems that come from separating design from build, and it ensures that what we design is actually buildable within your budget and site constraints.
Many gardens in Leicester's Victorian terraces, 1930s semis and inner-city new builds are compact — often 30–60m². The design challenge in a small garden is to make every square metre work: a seating area, a lawn or planted space, storage and somewhere to put the bins — all without the garden feeling crowded. We work with small gardens regularly across Clarendon Park, Stoneygate, Birstall and Oadby. The principles we apply are simple: clean lines, fewer materials, higher-quality finishes and multi-purpose elements like seating walls that double as planters.
A modern garden design typically uses a limited palette of contemporary materials — large-format porcelain paving, composite decking, steel-edged planted borders and low-voltage LED lighting — combined with clean, geometric lines and minimal ornament. We install modern garden designs across Leicester and Leicestershire, from compact urban courtyards to larger plots in Oadby, Wigston and the Blaby district. The AI design tool included in our free quote process is particularly useful for visualising a modern garden before committing to materials.
The most common brief we receive is some version of "we want it to look great but we don't want to spend every weekend maintaining it." Low-maintenance doesn't mean no planting — it means choosing the right hard landscaping materials (porcelain, composite, artificial grass) paired with carefully selected, slow-growing or drought-tolerant planting that doesn't need constant attention. We design and build low-maintenance gardens across Leicestershire that look well-kept year-round without demanding time the homeowner doesn't have.
A family garden needs to serve multiple ages and uses simultaneously: a safe surface for young children, a lawn or grass area for play, an outdoor dining area for adults, and somewhere to put bikes, trampolines and garden toys without them taking over the whole space. We design family gardens across Leicester that balance these needs practically — using artificial grass for the play lawn (no mud, all weather), a patio for dining, and considered zoning so the garden works for children now and adapts as they grow up.
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