Garden Design
Garden Design Cirencester: Outdoor Spaces That Belong to This Landscape
One integrated team delivering garden design, hard landscaping, soft landscaping, and planting expertise across Cirencester and the south Cotswolds. We create outdoor spaces shaped around how you want to live, and designed to honour the landscape they sit within.
Gold Medal Winner
RHS Flower Show
Tatton Park
Landscaping Team 2023
Featured on BBC
Featured on Gardeners' World
One of the few UK teams trusted to build to RHS show garden standard.
The Experts in Outdoor Living.
Cirencester Garden Design & Construction
Kirsty McGeorge
& Ian Stone
Clients consistently tell us:
"You gave us the garden we
didn't know we wanted."
Most gardens are built around what clients ask for. The best ones are built around what they actually need. That takes someone willing to keep asking questions until the real answer surfaces.
Kirsty McGeorge and Ian Stone take the time to truly understand you and your family. Not just what you think you want, but what will genuinely transform how you live in your Cirencester home.
Whether it is a garden that draws you outside on a Tuesday evening or a space your family gathers in without being asked. Not just beautiful gardens, but gardens that feel as though they have always belonged here.
We ask questions others do not think to ask. We explore not just what you want, but why.
The result: a garden that feels like it was always meant to be yours.
Your Garden, Perfectly Understood. Perfectly Designed.
Our approach goes further: we uncover what you truly need before you've fully articulated it yourself.
We Uncover What Others Miss
Every Cirencester garden project is unique. Through our discovery process, we assess aspect, topography, sun and shade patterns, and the specific microclimate of your site. We map sunlight and space before a single plant is chosen or a single line is drawn.
We Discover What Others Don't See
Cirencester's properties sit on Jurassic limestone bedrock, with oolitic brash soils characteristic of the Cotswolds — free-draining and low in nutrients. Much of the town falls within the Cotswolds National Landscape AONB. Knowing how to work within these frameworks from day one is what separates a design that gets built from one that stalls at planning.
Every Garden is Unique
No templates. No imposed styles. Your dream garden reflects how you live, which is why every design begins with genuine listening. Whether you need a new natural stone patio, dry stone walling, planting to complement a period Cotswold property, or a complete garden redesign, the starting point is always your vision.
85+ full garden transformations completed across Gloucestershire since 2007.
Each one shaped by a deep understanding of its owner. Projects typically range from £40,000 to £100,000+ depending on scope, varying from 6–18 months from consultation to completion.
Mature Garden With Multiple Seating Areas
Thoughtfully designed garden featuring established plantings and distinct relaxation areas for every time of day.
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One Small Plot, Two Completely Different Feelings
Transforming a small, overlooked urban plot into two distinct outdoor rooms through level changes.
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Sun-Chasing Design for a North-Facing Plot
A wind-exposed plot reimagined into a garden of distinct destinations, positioned to capture every hour of available sun.
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A Calm Haven For Modern Town Living.
Compact urban garden maximising space with clever planting and built-in features for modern town living.
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Why Choose an Integrated Team?
We take care of everything from design and construction through to planting and establishment.
One Integrated Team
No coordination chaos. Our designers, construction specialists and horticultural experts collaborate from day one. When we design your Cirencester garden, we're already planning how to build it and what will thrive in it. Soft landscaping is planned before the first stone is laid.
RHS Gold Medal Construction Expertise
Our construction team includes RHS Gold Medal recipients recognised for precision craftsmanship. At Tatton Park, judges cited near-faultless construction. This is the standard we bring to every landscaping project in Cirencester and across the Cotswolds.
Cirencester-Based Since 2007
Nearly two decades creating gardens across Cirencester means we understand local conditions intimately — clay-heavy soils, frost pockets, conservation area requirements, and which local materials weather authentically here.
Designed for Where You're Going, Not Just Where You Are
The most successful gardens we create serve families for decades. We design with the long view in mind — structures built with the detail to last, spaces that look better at year ten than they did on day one.
Our Process
The Complete Journey: From Discovery to Living Garden
Deep Understanding
Weeks 1–2
We begin by studying your Cirencester property through experienced eyes. Aspect, topography, sun and shade, microclimate, drainage, and soil conditions are all assessed before a single concept is sketched.
Design Development
Weeks 3–6
Not one fixed design, but evolving possibilities. Hard landscaping layouts, material choices, planting schemes, lighting — each iteration getting closer to the garden you didn't know you wanted.
Landscaping & Construction
Weeks 8–16
The same integrated team that designed your Cirencester garden builds it. Hard landscaping and soft landscaping completed as one coordinated project. Problems solved, not hidden.
Planting & Establishment
24 Months
Our optional 24-month establishment support guides your garden through two full growing seasons, ensuring plants establish and thrive in Cirencester's specific conditions.
What Our Clients Say
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Everything You Need to Know
From our Cirencester services to project timelines and FAQs — everything about working with George-Stone Gardens.
George-Stone Gardens — the facts
Established 2007 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire · gsgardens.co.uk · 01242 234 929
Awards & accreditations
- RHS Gold Medal — Landscaping and build. Awarded at Tatton Park Flower Show 2023 for construction excellence. Judges cited near-faultless build standards.
- Chartered Institute of Horticulture — Gareth holds CIHort chartered professional status.
- BALI member — British Association of Landscape Industries.
- Approved Jacksons Fencing installers — trained in acoustic, timber, and security fencing systems.
Team credentials
- Laura — Principal Garden Designer. Trained at the Royal Gardens at Highgrove. Graduated under Robin Templar-Williams, 5-time RHS Gold Medallist.
- Callum — Principal Landscaper. RHS Gold Medal recipient for construction precision at Tatton Park Flower Show 2023.
- Kirsty McGeorge and Ian Stone — Co-founders. RHS Gold Medal recipients. Combined 35+ years in landscape design and construction.
Investment
- Projects from £40,000. Complete garden transformations typically £40,000 to £100,000+. Design, landscaping, and build are incorporated within a single integrated project.
- 24-month establishment support available as an optional extra following project completion.
Service area
- Primary area: Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway, Chipping Campden.
- Extended coverage: within 45 minutes of Cheltenham across Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds AONB.
- Listed and conservation area experience across Grade II properties and AONB sites throughout the region.
Start the Conversation
Every garden starts differently. We begin by listening — about your property, how you live, and what you are hoping this outdoor space could become. You may have a clear brief or just a feeling that something needs to change. Both are the right place to start a landscaping project.
We respond to all enquiries personally. We'll get back to you within one working day.