London Borough of Ealing · W5, W13
Garden Design & Landscaping in Ealing
Shoots & Leaves design, construct and plant gardens in Ealing. Our office is in West London, close by, and we carry out every stage with our own teams: survey and design, excavation and drainage, brickwork, paving and steps, fencing and joinery, metalwork, lighting, irrigation, turf and planting.
Ealing is one of the greener parts of West London, and the gardens reflect it. Plots are often larger than in the inner postcodes, there are mature trees everywhere, and many houses have side access — which means we can build more ambitious structures and level changes than a Chelsea courtyard would ever allow.
We work across W5 and W13, from Ealing Common and Pitshanger to Northfields and West Ealing, and we always provide a written quote after visiting.
Gardens in Ealing
The housing stock is broad: substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas around Ealing Common and Mount Park, Arts and Crafts and interwar semis in Pitshanger and Northfields, generous 1930s houses with wide plots, and mansion blocks and newer flats near the town centre.
Gardens here are frequently wider than they are deep — a shape that behaves quite differently to a Chiswick strip — and often have room for a lawn, a proper terrace, a garden room and real trees. Many have side access down a driveway, which changes the economics of a build: machinery, materials and spoil can move without going through the house.
Trees are the defining local factor. Ealing's leafy streets and mature garden trees mean shade, leaf fall, root competition and, on London clay, soil shrinkage in dry summers — all of which affect foundations for walls and garden buildings as well as planting. Conservation areas cover parts of W5 and W13, and preservation orders are common on significant trees.
Garden Design for Ealing Homes
A wide Ealing garden is best divided so that it does not read as one flat rectangle. A terrace at the house that catches the right part of the day, a lawn with generous curved or rectilinear beds around it, and a destination at the far side — a garden room, a pergola, a shaded seat — give the garden depth and purpose.
Family use is a common brief here, and it is worth designing for honestly: a lawn that will survive being played on needs drainage and preparation, or an artificial grass area takes the wear so the rest can be planted well. Storage, a trampoline position and a route that will not be trodden through the borders are best decided at drawing stage.
Because plots are larger, planting can have layers: hedging and multi-stem trees for structure, shrubs for volume, then perennials and grasses. On clay near mature trees, soil preparation, mulch and irrigation are what carry new planting through its first summers.
Level changes and retaining walls are common on the sloping ground north of the Uxbridge Road, and generous, shallow steps between terraces make a big garden feel connected rather than divided.
More about how we work: garden design and landscaping & construction.
Landscaping & Garden Construction
Where side access exists, we use it — one visit with machinery to complete the excavation, drainage and levels is quicker, cleaner and cheaper than weeks of hand digging. Where it does not, we protect a route through the house and stage the work.
Our own teams then carry out drainage and land drainage, retaining structures and steps, brickwork and pointing, paving, pathways and driveways, fencing, gates, pergolas, garden rooms and bespoke joinery, and metalwork such as railings and screens. Foundations near mature trees on clay are designed for the ground conditions rather than to a standard detail.
Turfing, planting, irrigation and lighting complete the job, with cabling and pipework installed while the ground is open. Written quote before we start, regular updates while we work.
Why Choose Shoots & Leaves
Twenty-plus years of designing and building gardens in London, with our office nearby in West London.
A complete in-house service, so a larger Ealing project with groundworks, structures, a lawn and substantial planting is delivered by one company in the right order.
Written quotes for all works, prompt starts, honest advice about clay soils and mature trees, quality workmanship and a personal service.
Our Work
The clearest way to judge a landscaper is to look at what they build. Our portfolio shows completed gardens across London — the paving, brickwork, steps, joinery and planting we would bring to a garden in Ealing — with the design thinking behind each one.
We would rather show you our work than list projects we cannot verify, so nothing here is presented as a local case study unless it genuinely is one.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Do you take on larger, whole-garden projects in Ealing?
- Yes. Wider W5 and W13 plots often involve groundworks, drainage, retaining walls, terraces, lawns, garden rooms and full planting schemes — all of which our own teams carry out.
- Will a lawn survive children and clay soil?
- With the right preparation, often yes: drainage, decent depth of good soil and quality turf. Where wear is very heavy or the ground is persistently wet, we will suggest artificial grass for that zone instead of promising the impossible.
- Can you build a garden room or studio?
- Yes, built by our own joinery team with foundations designed for clay ground near trees. We will flag where planning permission is likely to be required.
- Do you do driveways and front gardens?
- Yes, using permeable construction or controlled run-off so the surface water rules are satisfied, and with planting retained so the street frontage still looks like a garden.
Book a Garden Consultation
Tell us about your Ealing garden and we will come and see it, talk through what is possible and follow up with a written quote for all of the work. Design, construction and planting are all carried out by our own teams, so you deal with one company from the first visit to the last plant.