Garden design & plans

The cheapest mistake to fix in a garden is the one still on paper. A proper design — plot survey, style, plant palette and a hydrozoned irrigation layout — catches the problems that are expensive to fix after planting: a lawn and a drought-tolerant bed sharing one irrigation zone, a shade tree planted where it'll outgrow a boundary setback, a plant palette that looks right on a moodboard but struggles in real Dubai sun.

Start in the playground#

Before committing to a design brief, try our free design your garden tool — sketch your plot, drop in a style, elements and plants, and see areas, a build-cost range and summer water use update as you go. It's the same underlying logic a full design uses, just self-serve: useful for working out roughly what you want before a first conversation, or for a small garden that doesn't need a full design engagement at all.

Four garden styles#

Most Dubai gardens we design fall into one of four broad styles, each with its own plant palette, materials and water use: tropical & jungly (lush, layered planting, higher water use), elegant & manicured (clipped hedging, formal lines), luxury resort (pool-focused, palms, golden-hour materials) and desert modern (native and adapted planting, the lowest water use of the four). A design doesn't have to pick one purely — most real gardens blend elements of two — but starting from a named style keeps the plant palette and materials coherent instead of a scattered mix.

From plan to real costs#

A design is only useful if the costs behind it are real. Every element in our plans — lawn, planting beds, paving, pool, pergola, irrigation, lighting — is priced against the same AED/m² or AED-each ranges published across our build services, not a single made-up lump sum, so a plan's total cost range is traceable back to its parts. That also means a design can flex to a budget: dropping a water feature or reducing paved area moves the total in a way you can see, rather than a designer just picking a smaller number.