| Robert Sergent-Fairley
visits each prospective client and personally examines and measures
the area (s) to be landscaped, noting any interesting features, trees,
shrubs or plants. He listens attentively to his clients wishes and
then discusses these, together with his own views and suggestions.
It only takes him a few minutes to arrive at an interesting basic
formulae; this, he works on for the next few days before returning
with a scale drawing of his proposals. His
designs are well known in the Landscape world; he has a very natural
style and always achieves a simplicity in his gardens, which although
full and exciting, remain calm, straightforward, purposeful and
‘uncluttered’.
  
According to the intended usage of the garden,
his designs vary from those containing ‘rooms’ to those
of completely open aspect.
One of his main mottoes has always been
“to let the plants do the talking”. He likes to follow
clearly defined lines, whether straight or curved; these he then
softens with features and/or his amazing planting schemes. He has
always commented to his clients that when entering any garden, the
first, the foremost and the main factor which meets the eye, is
the planting.
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