IslamabadEst. 1994Landscape / Irrigation / Interior
Thirty years of landscape, irrigation and interior work across Islamabad and Rawalpindi. We plant for the tenth summer — not the photograph.
Year 00The ground
Pothohar soil is heavy, alkaline and quick to compact. We test before we draw, because a plan the ground cannot keep is only a drawing.
Most gardens in this city fail in the first metre — underground, where nobody looks. Hardpan stops roots, water sits, and by the third summer the client is told the plants were unlucky. They were not.
Site report — specimenF-7 / Islamabad
Verdict — break the pan, amend to 450 mm, re-test before any planting is scheduled.
Since 1994
Homes, societies, commercial
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Year 01The water
A drip line is the difference between a garden and a receipt. We design the irrigation before the planting, not after it.
Water at the root, on a schedule, in the amount each species asks for. Pressure-compensating emitters so the far end of the line gets what the near end does. Filtration sized for our silt. A controller your gardener can actually operate without ringing us.
A correctly zoned drip garden typically runs on 40–60% of the water a hose does, and loses far less of it to the air.
Irrigation plan — one zone, schematicDrawn on scroll
Year 03The canopy
A tree is the only thing on site that gets better after we leave. These are the species we plant most here — picked for what they do in year ten, not on handover day.
01 / 06Cassia fistula
The golden shower. Blooms hang in chains up to half a metre. It drops its leaves in winter, so it hands the low sun back to the house underneath it.
02 / 06Jacaranda mimosifolia
Violet arrives before the leaves come back, which is the whole trick. Plant it where it will be read against a pale wall or open sky.
03 / 06Bougainvillea glabra
Nearly impossible to kill and genuinely difficult to keep tidy. We train it on a steel frame set off the wall, never directly onto plaster.
04 / 06Platanus orientalis
A hundred-year tree with a hundred-year footprint. It needs real depth of water and eight metres of clearance; we say no to it more often than we plant it.
05 / 06Alstonia scholaris
The fastest honest screen we know. Evergreen, upright, and in late October the scent carries across a whole lawn — that is what you are buying.
06 / 06Plumeria rubra
Sculpture in winter when it is bare, scent in summer when it is not. Keep it off frost pockets and out of anywhere water sits.
We schedule planting so that something is always happening. If every species on a site peaks in May, eleven months of the year are a hedge.
Flowering and autumn-colour months observed in Islamabad. Establishment adds one to three years before a first useful season.
Year 07The bloom
The canopy closes. The beds fill in and stop being weeded. The irrigation runs at roughly half its first-year volume because the roots have gone looking for themselves. This is the year the drawings were for.
Year 10Inside
We finish interiors for the same clients, for one reason: the view is the most expensive material in the room.
Floors, joinery, lighting and colour, all resolved against what is growing outside the glass. A room chosen from a catalogue and a garden chosen from a nursery rarely agree with each other.
Rooms resolved against what is growing outside the glass. We supervise to completion, so the last ten per cent — the part that decides whether it looks finished — actually gets done.
The work
Societies, private gardens and commercial grounds across Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Most of these we still maintain, which is the only review that counts.
Masterplan · Avenue planting · Drip network · Lawns
Islamabad
2023 – 2026
Islamabad2024
Courtyard · Pool surround · Interior
Bani Gala2023
Retaining · Terrace planting · Rotor irrigation
Rawalpindi2022
Species schedule · Pressure-zoned drip
F-7, Islamabad2025
Hardscape · Shade structure · Night lighting
How it runs
The sequence is the method. Change the order and you get a garden that looks finished and then quietly stops.
We measure the site before we like it. Levels, sun path, existing trees, soil depth, and — the one everybody skips — the water pressure at your boundary.
A plan you can hold a contractor to: planting schedule by species and size, irrigation layout with zone flows, hardscape sections, and a priced bill of quantities.
Excavation, drainage falls, hardpan broken, soil amended and tested again. Most gardens in this city fail in the first metre, underground, where nobody looks.
Nursery-grade stock, staked and watered in. Drip goes down before the mulch, never after — retrofitting irrigation into a finished bed costs twice and works half.
Twelve months of scheduled maintenance is part of the job, not an upsell. Pruning, feeding, emitter checks and a seasonal report on what is establishing and what is not.
The site visit
Send a photo and a rough size. We will tell you honestly whether the ground suits what you have in mind — including when it does not.
BriefTwo minutes