perfectionism

Three things we’ve learned about
stone walls.

The first is that, however skillful you are, you can’t build a beautiful wall from poor quality stone. The second is that every stone has its place, if you just know where to look. And the third is that it always pays to make a test panel, so that everyone knows exactly what the finished wall is going to look like.

Pursuing perfection

Naturally, you want the garden you’ve designed to be perfect in every respect. We feel exactly the same way. At Walmsley Shaw, the quality of the end result is all that really matters to us. And we’d much rather build five exceptional gardens in a year than 10 ordinary ones.

From the examples of our work on this website, you’ll see that we are traditionalists at heart, fanatical about getting every little detail exactly right. But that doesn’t mean we’re conservative or stuck in our ways; we’re always looking for progression in our work, and always happy to be set new challenges.