Our Garden Landscaping Process
We handle everything from initial sketches to the final planting. See how we turn barren plots and empty balconies into your personal green escape.
Every great garden starts with a blank canvas. This is the 'before' shot of a villa project in Goa, showing the site cleared and marked out, ready for transformation.
This video shows the initial stages of a project. Our team is preparing the ground and marking out the design with chalk lines before any planting begins.
For larger projects, site preparation involves heavy machinery. Here, we are clearing and leveling the ground to create the foundation for a new garden landscape.
A quick look at a before-and-after transformation. We took a barren, uneven space and turned it into a beautiful villa garden with a neat lawn and flourishing plants.
We personally handpick every specimen tree for our projects. Here I am at a nursery selecting large Ficus topiaries to ensure they meet the exact vision for our client's design.
Our truck is fully loaded with plants and ready to go. We take great care in transporting our plants to ensure they arrive at the project site healthy and ready for planting.
Our team carefully loading a beautiful, mature Bougainvillea specimen. Grown at our own farms, these established plants are ready to make an immediate impact in a client's garden.
The beginning of an indoor installation. The space is cleared, and our team is bringing in trays of plants, ready to create a hanging garden and planters.
Our team works together to install hanging greenery from the ceiling grid. This technique is great for adding life to an office or commercial space without taking up floor area.
Large Ficus topiary trees are being positioned as part of the indoor landscape design. We use a mix of large and small plants to create layers and visual interest.
About The Art of Landscaping: Our Process
You won't find us picking plants off a generic supplier list. When we design a landscape, we personally visit nurseries to handpick every specimen tree, looking for the specific structure, height, and health that fits your unique plot. It is not just about filling a space; it is about finding that one Ficus or Plumeria that immediately defines the garden's character the moment it is planted.
Great gardens are not just planted; they are engineered. Our landscaping process begins long before the first shovel hits the ground. We start with a site assessment to understand your space, sunlight patterns, and irrigation requirements. If we are working on a terrace or podium, we prioritize drainage and soil weight, using specialized moisture-retentive media like coco-peat and perlite to keep your structures safe while allowing plants to thrive.
Once the foundation is set, we move to the hardscape—laying pathways, installing irrigation, or setting up vertical garden frames. We do not believe in half-jobs; our team manages everything from red soil filling to the final mulching. Whether we are setting up a lush podium garden in a Mumbai high-rise or developing a seafront villa in Alibaug, our focus remains on sustainability. We choose hardy varieties like Syngoniums and Ferns for our vertical bio-walls, ensuring they look great with minimal intervention.
What makes our process different is the hands-on involvement. We do not just hand over a plan; we guide the planting, adjust the placement for better visual impact, and ensure the drip-irrigation system is perfectly tuned. We even perform periodic rotations to keep your garden looking fresh through the seasons. If you want a garden that actually grows instead of just looking good for a week, let us talk.
Ferntastica Gardens
We are Ferntastica Gardens, a family-run team that has been greening spaces for 45 years. We treat every plant like one of our own and every garden like a project for our own home, from the initial sketch to the final planting.
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