Jack Verran Design
Scottish Garden Design Competition 2025
Gold & Best in Show
Edinburgh Garden & Landscape Design
Based in Edinburgh, we work across Scotland and the UK, designing new landscapes and reshaping existing ones.
Many projects begin with uncertainty — it’s completely normal to feel unsure what should be built, what it might cost, or how it will all come together. We take the time to listen first, so you feel confident and supported from the outset.
Gardens should feel good — not just look good. They should draw you outside, change with the seasons, and feel generous, colourful and alive. Somewhere to gather friends and family, grow food, cook outdoors, or simply pause, be in the moment, and enjoy being outside a little longer.
We shape that potential into designs that truly work for you and your family — bringing clarity to layout, materials, budget and long-term maintenance, and turning ideas into spaces that continue to grow with you over time.
Design Mission
Our mission is to design places that are personal, purposeful and practical — shaped around the people who use them and the landscapes they belong to.
We’re here to listen. Your needs, worries, hopes and ways of living shape every recommendation we make. We genuinely care about creating better places — for you to enjoy, for biodiversity to thrive, and for the wider environment.
Through close collaboration and thoughtful, creative design, we guide each project from first idea to final detail — making sure what we design is inspiring, realistic, within budget and built to last
Design Services
Landscape & Garden Design
Project Support & Delivery
Planting & Horticulture
A complete design service for private gardens and wider landscapes — from first conversations and site analysis through to detailed layouts and technical plans. We shape outdoor spaces around how you live and how the land works, bringing together planting, materials and budget into a clear, build-ready proposal.
Support across surveys, cost , planning applications and live project stages. We work closely with clients, contractors and developers to ensure design intent translates into the project build — aligned with scope, programme and budget.
Planting is at the heart of every landscape. We develop considered planting schemes that respond to site, climate and context — balancing beauty, biodiversity and long-term resilience. From design and sourcing to guidance on establishment and management, we focus on landscapes that grow richer over time
Why Jack Verran Design?
Experienced. Qualified. Award-Winning
Expertise That Fits Your Needs
Creative. Designed For The Real World
Let’s Talk About Your Project
We’d love to hear about what you’re planning — whether it’s an idea taking shape or a project ready to move forward. We can support through a full design service, planting design, one off or ongoing consultancy.
What Our Customers Say
Jack has worked on several landscaping projects for us here in Dirleton over the last two years and is also currently providing us with weekly garden maintenance.
The projects have ranged from a large planting scheme up our driveway, a review, recommendations and planting in our formal walled garden and he is currently planning a lavender garden to the side of our house.
His planting plans are first class as are his consultations throughout the process. Jack is very personable, listens carefully to the brief, has great ideas and enthusiasm, delivers on time and flexes to our ever-evolving ideas!
We have been very happy with the end results on all projects and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him.
Jayne, Direlton