About
Madeline Mesias Landscape Garden Design Studio is based in Leicestershire and works with private residential clients across Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Oakham, and Rutland, with select commercial projects undertaken where appropriate.
Who is Madeline?
Madeline is a landscape and garden designer with a background in fashion design, having worked and taught within the industry before moving into garden design. This earlier design experience strongly informs her approach, bringing a sensitivity to materials, proportion, texture, and narrative that translates naturally into outdoor spaces.
Design, for Madeline, is a personal process. Gardens are not treated as generic projects, but as private spaces shaped by the people who use them. Each design is bespoke and developed with the client at its centre. Designs and planting plans are not shared or reused, ensuring every garden is individual and tailored to its setting.
Madeline’s connection to horticulture began at a young age. Growing up with a small, largely paved garden, she developed a passion for planting by transforming a modest border into a space full of colour and life. Watching plants grow and evolve sparked a lasting interest in how planting can change the way a space feels, even within limited conditions. This early experience continues to shape her belief that planting should work hard, bring joy, and mature beautifully over time.
A Considered Design Approach
Madeline’s work is rooted in client-centred design, creating gardens that feel like a natural extension of the home and the lifestyle lived within it. Each garden is shaped around how it will be used, whether for entertaining, family life, gardening, wildlife, or quiet retreat.
Planting and horticulture sit at the core of the studio’s work. Designs balance hard and soft landscaping, with planting given equal importance to structure and layout. Schemes are developed not only for aesthetic impact, but also for environmental sensitivity, long-term performance, and sustainability.
Where appropriate, edible planting is integrated into borders rather than separated into traditional vegetable gardens. This allows clients to experience their gardens in a more immersive and rewarding way, encouraging interaction with the landscape as part of everyday life.
Good garden design can significantly enhance wellbeing and add lasting value to a property. Madeline’s approach focuses on creating outdoor spaces that invite exploration, encourage time spent outside, and continue to improve as they mature.
The Design Process
Each landscape garden design project begins with a detailed understanding of the site and the client. This includes consideration of the property’s architecture, aspect, borrowed landscape, and how the garden connects to the house internally.
Time is taken to understand clients’ interior style, preferences, and aspirations for the space, as well as how the garden will be used and who it will be shared with. These insights inform the early stages of the design before concepts are developed.
The design process typically moves from initial concepts and 2D layouts through to detailed 3D designs and planting plans, all informed by an initial site survey. Where appropriate, 3D visualisations can be produced, allowing clients to walk through their proposed garden and fully understand how the space will feel before implementation begins.
Madeline works closely with experienced, professional experienced landscapers who can deliver the build and aftercare of gardens once designs are complete. This ensures continuity and quality from concept through to completion, while maintaining a clear and structured process throughout.
Discuss Your Garden
If you would like to discuss a garden project or explore how we could work together, please get in touch using the form .
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