Bespoke Garden Design · Harrogate

Oakdale — Contemporary Slate Terrace

Harrogate, North Yorkshire

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Garden design that creates spaces for memorable moments.

A bespoke landscape and garden design studio in Harrogate, balancing beauty, function and wellbeing — from small town front gardens through to large countryside estates across North Yorkshire.

Every garden is a story. I listen first — to the client, to the light, to the land — and then I draw a place that holds both beauty and a quiet sense of belonging.
Christiane Gul Founder & Lead Designer

Selected Projects

Nine bespoke gardens across Harrogate, Knaresborough and Leeds — each tailored to a client's lifestyle, site and story.

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A complete bespoke design service — concept to specification.

01 / Concept

Garden Design Concepts

Bespoke design tailored to your lifestyle, site and the way you want to live outdoors — beauty, function and wellbeing held in balance.

02 / Drawings

Masterplan Drawings

Detailed scaled masterplans for every project — from a small front town garden to a large country estate — clearly setting out structure, levels and materials.

03 / Visualisation

3D Models

Walk through your garden before a single stone is laid. 3D models bring proportion, materials and planting to life for confident decisions.

04 / Specification

Technical Specifications

Construction-ready technical detail — sections, setting-out, materials schedules — so contractors build exactly to the design intent.

05 / Planting

Planting Plans

Bespoke seasonal and structural planting schemes designed for year-round interest, sense of place and the realities of a Yorkshire climate.

06 / Build

Landscape Coordination

Working with trusted and tried landscape contractor teams to bring the design into reality — managed carefully, built beautifully.

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Client Testimonials

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harrogate

"A creative eye that brought our garden to life."

Christiane took the time to understand exactly how we wanted to live in our garden. Her drawings captured a vision we hadn't yet found the words for.

Private Client · Oakdale
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Knaresborough

"She made the most of every inch."

Our back garden was small and awkwardly shaped. Christiane designed a space that feels twice the size — beautiful in every season.

Private Client · Newtondale
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leeds

"Beautifully considered from concept to planting."

The 3D model gave us complete confidence before the build began. The finished garden is even more wonderful than the drawings.

Private Client · The Hawthorns
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ North Yorkshire

"An extraordinary creative sensibility."

Her background in textile design shows in every choice — texture, colour, layering. Our planting scheme is endlessly beautiful.

Private Client · Pinefold Green
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harrogate

"Calm, considered and quietly brilliant."

Christiane listens carefully, then designs something that feels inevitable. Working with her studio was an enormous pleasure.

Private Client · Duchy Road
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harrogate

"Our garden is now the heart of the house."

From the first concept sketch through to the planting and final stones, everything was handled with care, taste and craft.

Private Client · Ivy Banks
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harrogate

"A creative eye that brought our garden to life."

Christiane took the time to understand exactly how we wanted to live in our garden. Her drawings captured a vision we hadn't yet found the words for.

Private Client · Oakdale
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Knaresborough

"She made the most of every inch."

Our back garden was small and awkwardly shaped. Christiane designed a space that feels twice the size — beautiful in every season.

Private Client · Newtondale
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leeds

"Beautifully considered from concept to planting."

The 3D model gave us complete confidence before the build began. The finished garden is even more wonderful than the drawings.

Private Client · The Hawthorns
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ North Yorkshire

"An extraordinary creative sensibility."

Her background in textile design shows in every choice — texture, colour, layering. Our planting scheme is endlessly beautiful.

Private Client · Pinefold Green
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harrogate

"Calm, considered and quietly brilliant."

Christiane listens carefully, then designs something that feels inevitable. Working with her studio was an enormous pleasure.

Private Client · Duchy Road
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harrogate

"Our garden is now the heart of the house."

From the first concept sketch through to the planting and final stones, everything was handled with care, taste and craft.

Private Client · Ivy Banks
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From textile design in Mexico City to the British countryside.

Christiane Gul Landscape & Garden Design is a premium bespoke design studio based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Christiane studied at the prestigious Oxford College of Garden Design, trained by Duncan Heather — one of Europe's foremost garden designers, recognised with five gold medals, three best-in-show awards and an international reputation.

Before her career in garden design, Christiane graduated in Textile Design in Mexico City and worked in sourcing, merchandising and buying for American companies in the retail industry. Moving to the UK, she fell in love with the British countryside and retrained — bringing an extraordinary creative sensibility and an eye for material, texture and colour that sets the studio's work apart.

Oxford College of Garden Design
Trained by Duncan Heather
Bespoke for Every Space
Harrogate & North Yorkshire
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Christiane Gul, founder and lead designer
Christiane Gul — Founder & Lead Designer

A creative path, told in chapters.

Chapter One

Textile Design, Mexico City

A degree in textile design and a deep, abiding fascination with material, texture, pattern and colour — foundations that still shape every project.

Chapter Two

The Retail Industry

A career in sourcing, merchandising and buying for American retail companies — a training in taste, in trends, and in the discipline of bringing a vision to market.

Chapter Three

Moving to the UK

Falling in love with the British countryside — its hedgerows, walled gardens, mist over the moors — and the realisation that this was the next creative life.

Chapter Four

Oxford College of Garden Design

Training under Duncan Heather — one of Europe's foremost garden designers, with five gold medals, one silver, one bronze and three best-in-show awards to his name.

Today

The Studio in Harrogate

A bespoke garden and landscape design practice serving Harrogate, Knaresborough, Leeds and across North Yorkshire — small town gardens to large country estates.

Let's design your garden.

Every garden begins with a conversation. Tell me about your site, your lifestyle and the moments you'd like to create outdoors — and I'll be in touch to discuss the next steps.

Phone 07789 588028
Studio Oakdale, Harrogate
North Yorkshire HG1 2LS
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