Landscape Design & Installation for the Canary Islands — Site-Assessed Before a Plant Is Specified

Why the Site Assessment Is Not Optional

We carry out a formal site assessment before we design anything. This is a documented step with a written output — not a walk around the garden with a notebook.

The assessment maps the specific micro-conditions of your plot: where the northeast Trade Winds arrive and how exposed each area is; how the sun arc shifts between summer and winter and which beds get reflected heat from volcanic-rock walls in the afternoon; what the soil pH and drainage profile look like, and how they vary across the site. These conditions determine which species will thrive, which will survive, and which will fail — usually in that order.

The written assessment means you have a record of what was found and why each decision was made. If a plant choice is questioned later, we can point to the documented rationale. It also means that if you manage the property from abroad, you can read the assessment yourself rather than relying on a verbal summary from someone you have met once.

We source plants from nurseries that stock species proven in Canary Islands conditions — not from mainland distributors who have delivered the same pallete to a dozen different climate zones. Where locally quarried volcanic basalt or calcareous sandstone is appropriate for hard surfaces, we use it — because it performs in this climate, it looks genuinely of-the-place, and it reduces the embodied carbon of the build.