Garden Designer New Forest

The New Forest is one of the most distinctive garden-making landscapes in the south of England — ancient woodland, heathland edge, river valley pasture and village plots that each sit within the National Park's character and its planning constraints. Pete Jenkins has spent 22 years designing and building gardens across this landscape, working with the Forest's acid, free-draining soils, its wildlife sensitivities and the very particular opportunities that come from gardening at the edge of ancient woodland.

Garden Design and Build in the New Forest

Sea Glass Zero works across the New Forest and its surrounding villages — Brockenhurst, Burley, Lyndhurst, Beaulieu, Fordingbridge, Ringwood, Rockbourne and the wider National Park area. Services cover the full range: garden design and planning, landscaping and ground works, paving and terraces, planting schemes suited to the Forest's acid soils and semi-shaded conditions, garden structures, drainage and water management, and wildlife-friendly garden design. The New Forest's ecology and planning context shape every project — Pete Jenkins brings 22 years of local knowledge to every enquiry.

The ZERO Approach to Garden Making

Every Sea Glass Zero project is built around four principles. Together they make up the ZERO framework — a practical commitment to building gardens that give back as much as they take.

Z — Zero Emissions

Minimising footprint at source, from the materials chosen to the machinery run and how we travel to site.

E — Ecology

Native and wildlife-friendly planting, habitat creation, and considered water management so a garden gives more than it takes. Biodiversity is not an afterthought.

R — Responsibility

1% of each project's value goes directly to GreenFingers Charity to help create therapeutic gardens for children and families in hospices.

O — Offsetting

Reducing emissions first, then supporting carefully selected carbon-offsetting projects to balance the remaining footprint as close to carbon neutral as possible.