Area covered
The neighbourhoods of Amsterdam-Noord, and why there are six of them
An area that covers the whole city is a wish rather than a promise. This one is small enough to reach in the same week and large enough to hold six genuinely different kinds of garden.
The six neighbourhoods
Each card names the building period and the type of garden. That is more useful here than a travel time: anyone who recognises their own building period knows immediately whether this is about their garden.
Closed over at most
50%
We will not build a garden that is more than half hard surface. On this ground the water has to go somewhere.
Lead time
3 to 6
Working days for a garden up to a hundred square metres, spread over two weeks.
We come back within
12mo
Anything we plant that fails to take, we replace within a year at no cost.
The nine neighbourhoods not listed here
Buikslotermeer, IJplein and Vogelbuurt, the Waterlandpleinbuurt, Banne Buiksloot, Volewijck, Elzenhagen and the northern IJ banks hold tens of thousands of homes between them, and 3 to 26 per cent of those are single-family houses. The green space there belongs to an association or to the city rather than to the resident. We do come there, but we do not pretend there is a garden market where there is not one. Those figures come from Statistics Netherlands, neighbourhood data 2025.
First whether it can be done, then what it costs
Photograph the spot where the water stands. That answers half the question on its own.
What we do across this area
Garden renovationThe whole garden out and back in, with a scale drawing before the first spade goes in.
Paving and terraceWhy a terrace goes out of level here, and what has to sit underneath to stop it.
Planting and bordersWhat takes on wet peat soil, and what is gone again within three years.
Pruning and hedgesHedges, shrubs and trees, and what does and does not need a permit in Amsterdam.
Garden maintenanceFour fixed rounds a year, with what happens in each of them written down.
Your request
Six fields and a photo. With the area and the type of garden we can name a band before coming out; without those two, any answer is a guess.
Start with a photo
One photo from the back door showing the whole garden almost always saves a trip. Send two if you like: one of the whole and one of the spot where it goes wrong.