Enquire Landscape planner
Five short steps give you a preliminary landscape profile: the climate your site belongs to, how its open ground might be shared between trees, planting and lawn, how much water it may ask for and how much care it will need.
Preliminary guidance only. Not a substitute for a site survey, landscape design or quotation.
Preliminary landscape profile
Every figure here is a range drawn from general planning rules, not a measurement of your site. Quantities, water and care can only be fixed after a survey, soil tests and a design.
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Optional. Your profile travels with the request so the first conversation starts where you left off.
How a landscape is planned
Planning begins with a walk across the ground. Levels, existing trees, drainage, views, the way people will arrive and the services buried beneath all shape what is possible. A topographical survey fixes these on paper before a single line of design is drawn.
India spans five broad climates: hot and dry, warm and humid, composite, temperate and cold. Each changes how much shade a site needs, how plants are grouped and when they are planted. The microclimate around a building matters too: a north facing courtyard and a west facing terrace on the same plot can behave like two different places.
Sandy soil drains quickly and holds little water or food. Clay holds both but can drown roots. Rocky ground needs planting pockets. A soil test before planting tells us what to add, what to replace and which plants will settle without a struggle.
A lasting landscape is built in layers: canopy trees for shade, smaller trees for scale, shrubs for structure and privacy, groundcovers to protect the soil. Species are chosen for the climate, the soil and the care the landscape will receive, not only for how they look in the nursery.
Lawns ask for the most water, established native planting the least. Grouping plants by their thirst, watering beds by drip, collecting rainwater and mulching the soil can reduce demand considerably. Irrigation is planned with the planting, never added as an afterthought.
Every landscape is a promise of care. Clipped hedges, seasonal flowers and fine lawns need frequent attention; natural planting asks for less once it is established. Deciding honestly how much care a site will receive is one of the most useful choices made at the start.
Questions
It gives preliminary guidance only. Every figure is a range drawn from general planning rules, not a measurement of your site. A site survey, soil tests and a design are needed before any quantity or cost can be relied on.
If you share your location or search for your town, the planner reads five years of daily weather records for that spot and sorts each month into one of the five climate zones of the National Building Code of India. A zone that holds six months or more is your climate; otherwise the site is composite. Without a location, the planner suggests a zone from the state you choose.
No. Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and used only to look up weather records and the forecast. It is not saved against you and is not sent with a consultation request unless you add it yourself.
Historical records and forecasts come from Open-Meteo, which draws on national weather services and reanalysis models. Place names come from OpenStreetMap.
No. The plants listed are chosen from our plant library to suit your climate, light, water and priorities. Whether a species will thrive also depends on the soil, the microclimate, water quality and care, so final species are confirmed after a site visit.