Hefty’s Garden

Award winning design and planting, specialising in unusual plants & shade gardens. Featured on BBC2 Gardener’s World.

Based in Beckenham, covering Bromley and South London.

Dew-drop covered reddish-brown and pink flowers and vibrant green foliage, including various ferns and palm-like leaves, in a lush jungle setting.

Services

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Garden Design

Innovative, award winning garden design tailored to your space, combining thoughtful layout with distinctive and unusual planting to create unique gardens that feel natural, balanced and full of life.

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Border Planting / Design

Specialist planting design using unusual plants and pollinator-friendly planting. Plants sourced from award winning nurseries and Chelsea Flower Show medal winners.

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Garden Maintenance

Plant-focused garden maintenance guided by strong plant knowledge, ensuring the right care, pruning and seasonal work is carried out to keep gardens healthy, balanced and thriving.

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Garden Consultation

Professional garden consultations to help you plan improvements, refine planting or solve problem areas. Practical one to one advice tailored to your garden, with a strong focus on plants and long-term garden health. Online consultations also available.

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Bespoke Container & Pot Planting

Beautifully planted containers designed to enhance outdoor spaces with colour, texture and structure. Each scheme is tailored to your style, space and preferred planting palette for a refined, lasting display.

red Mohican flower blossoms on a tall, slender stalk, set against a green background.

Spring Bulb Planting/Design

A bespoke spring bulb planting service combining expert plant selection with professional planting. Whether you prefer a riot of colour or a more elegant, restrained palette, bulbs are carefully chosen from award-winning specialist growers and planted to deliver maximum spring impact.

BBC2 Gardener’s World Feature

BBC Gardeners World cameraman is operating camera equipment among dense green tropical plants in a lush jungle garden setting.

Hefty’s Garden feature on BBC2 Gardener’s World

Hefty from heftys garden receiving award from BBC Gardeners World Live @ NEC Birmingham

Hefty’s Garden was featured on BBC Gardeners’ World for innovative planting and urban garden projects, reflecting a distinctive, plant-led approach to garden design.

Hefty meeting Joe Swift from BBC, standing in front of lush green foliage jungle border

Portfolio

A sleek modern back garden with decking and plants, outdoor furniture, and a black fence, surrounded by lush trees and plants with varying shades of green

Contemporary garden designed around a generous decked space, creating a calm and functional outdoor area for relaxing and entertaining, as requested by the client. The lush, tropical planting softens the structure, introducing colour, texture and seasonal interest while maintaining a clean, balanced layout.

A colorful garden with a variety of flowers and plants, a stone pathway, a wooden fence, and neighboring houses in the background under a bright blue sky.

Layered planting scheme designed to soften the boundary and create year-round interest. A mix of grasses, perennials and structural plants provides movement, texture and colour, forming a naturalistic border that evolves through the seasons.

A lush garden scene with tall grasses, purple flowers, and leafy green shrubs, bordered by a wooden fence and trees in the background.

Prairie-style planting scheme combining ornamental grasses and perennials to create a loose, naturalistic border. The planting is designed to move with the seasons, offering texture, structure and colour throughout the year.

A backyard garden with a well-maintained green lawn, surrounded by colorful flowers and plants. There is a wooden shed on the left, a wooden archway with hanging decorations in the center, and an assortment of potted flowers nearby. A gravel pathway leads through the garden, and houses with residential windows are visible in the background under a cloudy sky.

A clean, structured garden centered on a circular lawn, with curved planting borders shaping the space. Layered planting and a focal arch create depth, balance and a cohesive composition.

Front garden with colorful flowers, plants, and a pathway next to a white house with a blue door.

Compact front garden with a structured layout and layered planting. The scheme introduces colour, texture and seasonal interest, creating a welcoming and cohesive entrance space.

Front yard garden area with large, spiky green plants in the foreground and a wooden fence. In the background, there is a two-story house with white walls, large windows, a red-tiled roof, and brick chimneys, under a partly cloudy sky.

A gravel-based planting scheme using architectural, drought-tolerant plants to create a clean and structured space. The design focuses on form, texture and contrast, with minimal maintenance requirements.

A backyard garden filled with various colorful flowers and greenery. There is a black shed, a wooden fence with climbing plants, and a small tree in the background. The sky is partly cloudy.

A richly layered planting scheme with a cottage garden influence, designed to create colour, movement and seasonal variation. Vertical planting and mixed textures form a relaxed yet cohesive composition.

Lush green tropical plants with large leaves, colorful flowers, and dense foliage.

A dense, foliage-led planting scheme designed to create a lush, immersive atmosphere. Bold architectural plants are layered with contrasting textures to form a rich, dynamic border with a strong tropical character. Featured @ BBC Gardeners World Live

A decorative Moroccan style garden scene with white carved panels on a red brick wall, a large green ceramic pot, and various plants, rocks, and white pebbles in the foreground.

A Moroccan-inspired garden feature combining strong geometry, architectural planting and textured materials. The composition creates a bold focal point, with a balance of structure, pattern and warmth.

A lush garden with various green plants and purple flowers, located in front of residential houses with white walls and red tiled roofs.

A full, layered border planting combining bold foliage with grasses and perennials to create a lush, vibrant space. The planting is designed to provide movement, texture and colour throughout the growing season.

A lush garden with a variety of green plants and bushes, including large leafy plants, grass, and small flowering plants near a wooden fence.

A refined, foliage-led planting scheme designed for shade. Contrasting textures and layered planting create a calm, cohesive composition with year-round interest.

A backyard garden with a pink wooden fence, colorful flower pots hanging on the fence, and various green plants and flowers in the garden bed below.

A compact, tropical-style border focused on bold foliage, colour and texture. Layered planting creates a rich, immersive feel, bringing a sense of warmth and vibrancy to the garden.

A landscaped outdoor area featuring a wooden fence, green trees, and a variety of colorful tulip flowers in a garden bed with a white border.

A refined courtyard planting design created to enhance a modern outdoor space. Architectural structure, seasonal bulbs and carefully balanced planting bring warmth, texture and sophistication to the setting.

A potted green plant with large leaves placed in front of a wooden fence, surrounded by small rocks and other smaller plants.

A bespoke shade container combining architectural foliage, rich leaf tones and seasonal flowering detail. Carefully balanced textures and form create an elegant display with impact throughout the season.

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Client Testimonials

We asked Hefty to come in and redesign our planting as a number of the plants in our shady garden were not suitable for their location. Hefty came up with a number of ideas for plants that would thrive in our garden but also provide year round colour. All the planting has done really well and is a vast improvement on what was previously there with lots of interesting plants with different colours and structures. Hefty is very knowledgeable and his prices are very reasonable. Would highly recommend working with Hefty

S.Murphy

Beckenham

Kiran is brilliant. We are novice gardeners and we had a lovely garden but turned out we had a number of plants not suited to the soil and orientation of our garden. Kiran worked with us to understand our needs, likes and capability and picked and planted lots of new plants for us, diligently sticking to the budget. We couldn't be happier with the end result and would highly recommend him.

Really pleased with Hefty’s Garden, had a flower bed at the front of the house which we had no idea what to do with… it now looks amazing! We were even given tips to keep the plants healthy and happy as we are pretty useless when it comes to gardening! Would 100% recommend and use again!! Thank you!!

M.Noakes

Beckenham

S.Ellen

Beckenham

We hired Kiran to help us with the planning and planting of our garden, and we’re thrilled with the results. He’s incredibly knowledgeable and helped create a beautiful space that we never would have been able to match on our own. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking for help with a garden.

K.Southam

Beckenham

Contact Us

Whether you’re planning a new garden, refreshing an existing space or looking for expert planting advice, get in touch to discuss the next steps.