London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham · W6, W14
Garden Design & Landscaping in Hammersmith
Shoots & Leaves design, build and plant gardens in Hammersmith, where our yard is based. Design, groundworks, drainage, brickwork, paving, joinery, metalwork, lighting, irrigation and planting are all carried out by our own experienced teams.
Working on our doorstep has practical advantages. Materials come off our own yard, a forgotten tool is ten minutes away rather than an afternoon lost, and small follow-up visits after handover are easy to arrange. Over more than twenty years we have built a great deal of W6 and W14.
Whether it is a courtyard behind a Brackenbury terrace, a garden in one of the riverside streets, or a communal space for a block, we will visit and quote in writing for all of the work.
Gardens in Hammersmith
Hammersmith is largely Victorian terraced and semi-detached housing — Brackenbury Village, the streets around Ravenscourt Park, St Peter's Square's stucco terraces and the roads down towards the river — mixed with mansion blocks, converted flats and newer riverside apartment schemes.
Gardens are typically small to modest, walled or fenced on both sides, and often shortened by rear extensions. Basement and lower ground gardens are common in the stucco terraces, and flat conversions frequently share a garden between several households, which changes both the design brief and the maintenance conversation.
The area is busy and dense, so privacy, shelter and noise are recurring themes: gardens overlooked from upper floors, backing onto commercial premises or within earshot of a main road. Ravenscourt Park's mature trees and the plane trees on the squares bring welcome canopy along with dry shade and preservation orders. Ground is London clay with gravel closer to the Thames, and drainage close to the river needs designing rather than assuming.
Garden Design for Hammersmith Homes
For a small Hammersmith garden the aim is usually to make one good room outside rather than several compromised ones: a properly sized terrace, built-in seating or storage on the least useful boundary, generous planted beds on the sunniest side, and a clean route through to bins and bikes.
Screening and shelter earn their keep here. Hedging, pleached trees, trellis with climbers and well-made joinery screens deal with overlooking and soften noise far better than a taller fence, and evergreen structure keeps the garden looking intentional in winter when it is mostly seen from indoors.
In lower ground and basement gardens, light is the currency: pale paving, a wall wash of light, reflective render, and shade planting with real soil depth. Drainage and waterproofing details matter more than anything decorative — water has to be actively taken away from a sunken space.
Front gardens along the terraces are small but very visible. A repointed wall, good gates and a permeable, planted surface lift the whole house, and keep you within the rules on front-garden surface water run-off.
More about how we work: garden design and landscaping & construction.
Landscaping & Garden Construction
Because the yard is local, our build phases in W6 tend to be short and well supplied. Access is normally through the house or a narrow passage, so we protect the route, stage deliveries and take spoil away in manageable loads.
Our teams handle excavation and structural work, drainage, soakaways and slot drains, brickwork and repointing — Victorian stock brick in lime mortar, pointed with an appropriate soft mortar — paving, steps, tiling and pathways, then fencing, gates, pergolas, screens, bin and bike stores, bespoke joinery and metalwork.
Lighting and irrigation go in while the ground is open, then soil improvement, planting, turf or artificial grass. We work to a written quote, keep you informed, and operate a strict environmental policy on site.
Why Choose Shoots & Leaves
Our yard is in Hammersmith and we have been designing and constructing London gardens for over twenty years.
Everything in-house — design through to planting — by experienced teams, so nothing waits on a subcontractor and one company is accountable.
Written quotes for all work, speedy starts, quality of workmanship and a genuinely personal service from people who work in the area every week.
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 Hammersmith — 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
- Are you actually based in Hammersmith?
- Yes — our yard is in W6 and our office is in West London, so Hammersmith projects are supplied and supervised from a few minutes away.
- Can you make a small overlooked garden feel private?
- Usually, yes, with height and planting rather than bulk: hedging, pleached trees, trellis and climbers, and a pergola or overhead structure where you want to sit.
- My basement garden is damp and dark. Can it be improved?
- It can. The priority is drainage and waterproofing detailing, then light — pale surfaces and good garden lighting — and evergreen shade planting with irrigation.
- Do you work on shared gardens for converted flats or blocks?
- Yes. We do both domestic and commercial landscaping, so shared gardens and communal grounds are familiar work, including phasing that keeps them usable.
Book a Garden Consultation
Tell us about your Hammersmith 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.