A garden designed for your courtyard, your rooftop or your échoppe.
Design, planting and decks for the small outdoor spaces of Bordeaux. A clear plan, plants that stand up to the Gironde summer, a build delivered on time.
The Nansouty courtyard, two summers after planting. Illustration image created for the demo.
- 20 to 400 m²Courtyards, town gardens, rooftops and terraces
- Gironde climateLow-water plant palette, mulch on every bed
- 2 to 4 weeksFrom soil preparation to the last plant in the ground
Six ways I can help.
From the drawing to the first spade in the ground, and then over the years. Every project starts with a visit on site; the prices are orders of magnitude including VAT (20%), the quote depends on the ground.
Design and plan
Sketch, planting plan, plant palette, choice of materials. You see the garden before it exists.
from €650Border planting
Soil preparation, planting in the right season, mulch and drip irrigation. Plants that settle in, rather than merely survive.
from €95 / m²Decks and paths
Class 4 timber, stabilised gravel, Gironde limestone, steel edging. Surfaces that age well and let the water through.
timber deck from €180 / m²Vegetable patch and orchard
Chestnut raised beds, living soil, heritage fruit trees, trained on a wall or free-standing.
raised bed from €420Pond and rainwater
A planted pond that draws dragonflies and frogs, a buried tank, drip irrigation on a timer.
from €1,900Seasonal maintenance
Four visits a year: pruning, replacements, irrigation adjustments. The garden stays the one on the plan.
from €120 / visit
Consultation visit
One hour at your place: reading the ground, the light, the soil, your wishes. €90 incl. VAT, deducted from the project.
Sketch and quote
Site plan, plant palette, materials and an itemised quote within ten days.
The build
Decks, surfaces, planting in the right season. Two to four weeks, progress photos sent along the way.
One-year follow-up
Establishment check, replacement of anything that did not take, irrigation adjustments.
A garden that lives all year round.
Drag the slider: the same border month by month, the changing light, and what I do there.
June
Summer
In the garden this month
The plan of a model garden, zone by zone.
Tap a zone: its plants, its upkeep, and what it changes in the estimate. A 380 m² family garden, like the one in Caudéran.
Plan drawn for the demo. Areas and prices are examples.
Wooden deck
Plants
Upkeep
Indicative estimate for the garden
Prices include VAT (20%). Includes design (€1,450) and soil preparation with waste removal (€2,900), large specimens excluded. All zones, no options: €21,000, the budget of the Caudéran garden. The quote comes after the visit.
Three gardens, from drawing to reality.
The sketch handed to the client, then the garden two summers later. Drag the handle, then switch project.
Sketch
Two summers later
All projects
Échoppe courtyard · Nansouty
45 m² · 3 weeks · €8,200 incl. VAT
Roof terrace · Chartrons
30 m² · 2 weeks · €6,500 incl. VAT
Family garden · Caudéran
380 m² · 4 weeks · €21,000 incl. VAT
Gravel, steel, timber
Surfaces that drain · Nansouty
Stipa and salvias, late summer
Low-water border · Caudéran
Planting in season
Mulched straight away · Nansouty
No project of this type yet.
Projects, budgets and images are examples for this demo; the sketches are line renderings computed from the photos, in your browser.
What clients say.
Three reviews after the first season. Fictional reviews, written for the demo
“The plan let us see the courtyard before deciding. Two years on, it is exactly that, only fuller.”
Swann and BastienÉchoppe courtyard, Nansouty
“A rooftop that copes with the wind and the heatwaves, and watering we no longer think about. We have lunch up there from May to October.”
HermineRoof terrace, Chartrons
“The children have their raised bed, we have the shade of the pear tree. And the build kept to its four weeks.”
The Darricau familyFamily garden, Caudéran
Estimate your project in a minute.
An indicative range and the right time to start. The precise figure comes after the visit.
Book a consultation visit.
One hour at your place, €90 incl. VAT deducted from the project if you go ahead. Four steps, two minutes, and a slot chosen straight away.
Your maintenance notebook.
Tick what you have in the garden: the year’s reminders write themselves. They stay on this page, nothing is stored.
Tick at least one item: the notebook fills itself in.
Where I work.
Bordeaux and its metropolitan area, up to about thirty kilometres. Beyond that, case by case. Tap a town to see the travel terms.
- Studio
- Quai des Queyries, 33100 Bordeaux fictional address
- Appointments
- Visits Tuesday to Saturday, 9:00 – 18:00
- Contact
- bonjour@atelier-lisiere.example demo
- Guarantees
- Ten-year structural insurance on decks, one-year establishment guarantee on planting.