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Soft Landscaping
Lawns, trees, hedges and flower beds, chosen for Rajasthan’s heat and soil.
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Landscaping & garden care · Udaipur · since 2015
Gardens fit for palaces.
We design, plant and maintain gardens for palaces, heritage hotels, resorts and private estates across Rajasthan.
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The Four-Quarter Garden
Charbagh · golden hour
A garden should earn its place
Landscaping and garden care for Rajasthan's finest properties, from the first drawing to every season after.
Since 2015Studio in Udaipur, working across Rajasthan and India
30 yearsIndustry experience behind the team
Palaces · hotels · estatesRaj Niwas, Narsingh Bagh, Inder Prakash, Lodha Farm
Own crewThe people who plant the garden are the people who maintain it
Clients
Trusted by palaces and resorts.
What we do
We design, plant and look after gardens.
Nature's Touch is a landscaping company in Udaipur — landscape design, gardening services and garden maintenance for palaces, heritage hotels, resorts and private homes across Rajasthan. No walls, no paving. Only what is alive.
The work, in plain words
Lawns & plantingNew lawns, trees, hedges, topiary, seasonal flower beds and shrub borders, chosen for Rajasthan's heat and soil.Soft Landscaping
Terrace gardensRoofs and terraces turned into usable green floors: waterproofed, planted in lightweight soil, drip-fed.Terrace Garden
IrrigationDrip and sprinkler systems designed and installed together with the planting, so nothing is watered by guesswork.Irrigation System
Kitchen gardensVegetable and herb gardens for hotel kitchens and homes: raised beds, compost, and a planting calendar for the year.Kitchen Garden
Pergolas & shadeClimbers, creepers and shade planting on pergolas, walkways and arrival courts.Pergola & Shade
MaintenanceA trained crew on a monthly contract: mowing, pruning, feeding, pest control, replanting. The same people who planted the garden.Estate Maintenance
Who it is for
Heritage hotels, palaces and resorts that need the grounds right every day. Farmhouse and villa developers. Families who want a terrace or kitchen garden they actually use.
What you get from us
A site visit and a soil check. A master plan with planting list and cost. Planting and irrigation by our own crew. Then a maintenance contract.
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Everything a garden needs, from the first drawing to the monthly visit.
All six services →Layered plantingS · 02
Terrace Garden
Rooftops waterproofed, planted in lightweight soil, checked for load.
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Green floors overheadS · 03
Irrigation System
Drip and sprinkler systems that give each plant its water and waste none.
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Water, to the drop
Leaf, root & herbS · 05
Estate Maintenance
Monthly mowing, pruning, feeding and replanting by the crew that planted it.
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Kept at opening-day standardS · 06
Pergola & Shade
Pergolas and walkways planted with climbers for shade and scent.
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Structure, softened by flowerHow we work
From the first visit to a garden that keeps growing.
One crew, start to finish — the people who survey the ground are the ones who plant it and look after it.
- 01Week 1
Site visit
We walk the site, test the soil, read the light.
- 02Weeks 2–4
Master plan
Drawings, planting list, irrigation and budget.
- 03Weeks 4–8
Preparing the ground
Levels set, soil improved, irrigation laid.
- 04Season-led
Planting
Planted in the right season, by our own crew.
- 05Ongoing
Care
Monthly care, season after season.
Every step is written down before it is dug.
Book a site visit →In the field
Illustrations of our process, not photographs of a particular site
Our work
Gardens we have built.
Real photographs from our completed projects: hotel rooftops, estate lawns, seasonal beds and lakeside terraces, all planted and maintained by our own crew.
◇ Photographs of completed Nature's Touch projects.
Lily Court
Heritage hotel · Udaipur
A formal water court for a heritage hotel: lily pool, clipped hedging and shade trees set out on a strict axis, planted so it reads as old as the building.
Baradari Walk
Resort arrival · India
The arrival walk of a resort: a pergola planted with climbers and a drip-fed border on both sides, so guests arrive under shade rather than past a wall.
Kitchen Garden
Resort kitchen · Udaipur
A kitchen garden for a resort restaurant: raised beds laid out to the chef's list, with herbs and salad leaves nearest the kitchen door and a planting calendar for the year.
Four-Quarter Parterre
Private estate · Udaipur
A four-quarter lawn for a private estate: the classic charbagh layout, low hedging on the lines, and a central bed that carries colour through the seasons.
Project gallery
Gardens we have made.
Photographs from three of our own schemes — Raj Niwas in Dholpur, Narsingh Bagh, and Inder Prakash in Udaipur. Lawns, borders, avenues and the planting that holds them together.
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Senior Horticulturist
The studio
An architect’s approach to living things.
30 years
of industry experience behind the studio. Ms. Singh leads a team that has delivered gardens for five-star hotels across India.
"We do one thing — soft landscape — and we do every part of it in-house, from the drawing to the pruning."
Nature's Touch was founded in Udaipur in 2015 with a narrow brief: bring the rigour of a design practice to planting — the living half of a landscape.
Led by a senior horticulturist, working only on soft landscape. Every scheme is drawn before it is dug, and maintained by the crew that planted it.
Ms. Singh
Principal · Nature's Touch Landscape · Udaipur
30
Years industry experience
5★
Hotel projects, India
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Disciplines, in-house
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Craft · soft landscape
The craft
Every garden starts as a drawing. Here is how ours are made.
Pick a chapter below. They show the thinking behind the work: how a scheme is drawn, how it is read, how a tree grows into it, and what the soil has to do with all of it.
Concept
From sketch to finished garden.
Every garden starts on paper: a plan of the ground and an elevation of the building, on one sheet. Below is one scheme — a water garden on Lake Pichola, from sketch to planted garden.
The drawing comes first.
We draw by hand first, and we draw the garden and the building together.
The garden runs along a reflecting pool, with cypress holding the line of sight from the palace. Terraces step down to the water. Hover a number to see each part.
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Reflecting pool
20 × 40 m
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Central fountain
Octagonal basin
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Star parterre
Clipped hedging
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Cypress allée
Cupressus sempervirens
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Palace footprint
Jharokha colonnade
An illustrative scheme, not a built project: the same ground before and after planting. Drag to compare.
Concept · before
Concept · after
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What happens between the sketch and the garden
The drawing is the start, not the job. From it we produce working drawings the crew builds from, and that you keep.
Irrigation is drawn with the planting, so pipes go in first and nothing is dug up twice. The crew that plants the garden is the crew that maintains it.
The drawings you receive
L-01 · Master planThe whole garden on one sheet: lawns, beds, trees, paths, water, levels.
L-02 · Planting planEvery plant by name, its position, its size at planting and the quantity ordered.
L-03 · IrrigationDrip lines, sprinkler zones, valves and the water source, laid out to match the planting.
L-04 · SectionsCut-through views showing levels, soil depths and how terraces step.
Care calendarMonth by month: what is pruned, fed, sown or replaced, and when.
Master plan
What a master plan looks like.
This is the drawing you receive before anything is dug: every lawn, bed, tree and water feature in its place. Hover a zone on the plan, or a line of the legend, to see that part of the scheme.
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Charbagh parterres
Four planted quadrants in the Persian charbagh layout the Mughals brought to Rajasthan, divided by water. Seasonal colour is rotated bed by bed so the scheme never reads bare.
Plan legend
- A Water tank & fountain
- B Charbagh parterres
- C Cypress allée
- D Baradari pavilion
- E Pool court
- F Pergola walk
- G Kitchen garden
Growth study
A garden is drawn, then it grows.
One tree, drawn the way it grows: six metres of crown above the ground and roughly the same reach of root below it. A garden is planted small and grows into the drawing over years. That is why we plan for the size a tree will become, not the size it arrives.
YEAR 0
Planting
Pits dug wide rather than deep. Compost mixed into the soil. Each tree staked, mulched and fitted with its own drip line. Watered daily through the first summer.
What we do · plant & protectYEAR 1
Taking root
Little happens above ground; a great deal below. Roots push out into the surrounding soil. We check weekly, feed, and do the first light pruning.
What we do · feed & watchYEAR 3
Filling out
The canopy begins to cast real shade. Hedges close up, lawns knit together. Drip lines are moved outward as the roots spread.
What we do · shape & adjustYEAR 5
Grown in
The garden now looks like the drawing. Pruning shapes rather than trains. Watering can drop, because the roots reach deeper on their own.
What we do · maintainYEAR 10
Mature
The trees carry the garden. Beneath them the planting is renewed in cycles, and the soil is richer than the day we started.
What we do · renew
The soil
What is going on under the lawn.
A garden is only as good as the ground it stands in. This drawing is a cut through a planted lawn, two metres deep, showing what a tree needs from the soil and what lives in it. We read every site this way before we plant, because most garden failures start below the surface, not above it.
- 1 Tree canopy: shade, and leaves giving off water
- 2 Drip pipe, 15 cm below the surface
- 3 Earthworm
- 4 Fungal threads
- 5 Helper fungi on the roots
- 6 Tiny soil worms
- 7 Crumbly soil: air and water move freely
- 8 Water table, rises in the monsoon
The drawing, layer by layer
Leaf litterThe top few centimetres: fallen leaves and mulch. This is what keeps the soil cool and moist in a Rajasthan summer. We put it there on purpose.
TopsoilThe dark, living layer. Most of the roots, worms, fungi and bacteria are here. Good topsoil is the single biggest difference between a garden that thrives and one that struggles.
Pale layerWhere years of water have washed the goodness downward. Thin and poor on its own. Deep roots pass straight through it.
SubsoilFirmer and less alive, but this is where a tree anchors itself and finds water in the dry months. If it is compacted, trees stay small. We loosen it before planting.
Broken rockRock slowly breaking down into soil. Drains freely. Roots rarely go past it.
BedrockSolid rock. The water table sits above it and rises during the monsoon, which is why some sites flood at the roots and need drainage.
What lives there, and why it matters
Earthworms tunnel through the topsoil and let air and water in. Fungal threads (the fine lines in the drawing) link up with tree roots and fetch water and minerals the roots cannot reach on their own; we call these helper fungi. Soil bacteria break down the leaf litter into food for plants. None of this survives chemical fertiliser used carelessly, which is why we feed the soil with compost and mulch instead.
What we do with this
Before drawing a planting plan we dig a pit on site and read these layers. That tells us how deep the topsoil is, whether the subsoil is compacted, where the water sits, and which trees will be happy there. The drip pipe in the drawing sits fifteen centimetres down so water reaches the roots and not the air, and the canopy above shades the ground so less of it evaporates. Every scheme we plant is designed from a hole in the ground first.
In practice
This is not decoration. It is the reason our gardens are still healthy in their tenth summer: the soil was understood before the first plant went in, and it has been fed, mulched and watered properly ever since.
Our principles
We grow gardens the way the ground wants to grow.
Four rules we work by on every site. We build up the soil instead of replacing it. We feed it with compost, not chemicals. We use as little water as the climate allows and lose as little of it as possible. And we choose plants that bring birds and butterflies back, so the garden is alive on the day it opens and richer every year after.
The living soil
A handful of healthy garden soil holds billions of living things: bacteria, fungi, tiny worms and the earthworms you can see. Together they feed the plants, hold the soil in crumbs that keep water, and keep disease down. Look after them and the garden largely looks after itself.
Read the ground first
Before we choose a single plant we dig a pit and read the soil in layers: the leaf litter on top, the dark topsoil, the pale washed-out band, the firmer subsoil, then broken rock and finally bedrock. How thick each layer is tells us how deep roots can go, where water sits, and which trees will do well.
Udaipur's ground runs shallow and stony, with bedrock close beneath. We plant to the profile we find, not the one we wish for — which is why the gardens hold.
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Nutrient cycling
Tiny soil life turns dead leaves and roots into food that plants can actually take up.
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Structure building
It glues soil into small crumbs, and the gaps between them hold the air and water roots need.
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Disease suppression
A soil full of healthy life leaves little room for the pests and diseases that attack weak plants.
How we protect it
Soil care, not soil chemistry
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No-till ground
We dig and turn the soil as little as possible, so the fungal network and the crumb structure that holds water are not broken.
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Cover & mulch
Bare earth is kept covered — living groundcover or a 50–75 mm mulch — feeding the soil and holding moisture through the heat.
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Compost, not salts
We feed the ground with organic compost rather than heavy synthetic fertiliser, keeping the microbial life diverse and fed.
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No routine pesticide
Beneficial insects and microbes do the pest control. We reach for chemistry last, not first — never as routine.
Water, conserved
Every drop, in a desert climate
Hydrozoning
Plants are grouped by how much water they need: tough, drought-happy planting across the wider grounds, and the thirstier beds kept small and close to the building.
Drip, to the root
Drip pipes deliver water straight to the roots, underground, so almost none of it is lost to the Udaipur sun.
Rainwater capture
Roof and hardscape run-off is caught and returned to the garden rather than sent to the drain.
Mulch & morning
A mulch blanket traps soil moisture; irrigation runs at first light, before the day can steal it.
Eco-friendly materials & planting
Built to sit lightly on the land
Native & adapted species
Plants that belong to this climate thrive on natural rainfall and ask little once established.
Permeable ground
Open-grid paving, gravel and stone let rain soak back into the earth instead of running off.
Reclaimed timber
Raised beds and borders built from salvaged wood where the brief allows.
Less lawn
High-thirst turf swapped for groundcover, meadow and planting that works with the microclimate.
Planting for birds & butterflies
A garden that comes alive
We compose a mix of open landing pads for butterflies and long-lasting seed heads for foraging birds. A sample of the palette we plant for wildlife value:
Plant
Butterflies
Birds
Season
Note
Lantana
High
Low
Summer – autumn
Nectar-dense flower clusters; thrives in heat.
Salvia
High
Medium
Spring – autumn
Tubular blooms for butterflies and sunbirds.
Cosmos
Medium
High
Summer – autumn
Easy annual; seed heads feed foraging birds.
Sunflower
Medium
High
Summer – autumn
Large faces draw insects; seeds for songbirds.
Marigold
Medium
Low
Year-round
Hardy border colour; steady nectar.
Coneflower
High
High
Summer – winter
Blooms for pollinators, winter seed for finches.
Legend High Medium Low · Palette adapts to each site's aspect, soil and water.
Visualisations
See the garden before it exists.
For larger schemes we render the master plan, so you can approve the garden before a spade touches the soil.
Nature's Touch© was built on a single conviction: that a garden is not decoration.
Studio Philosophy
It is stewardship. Every soil turned, every root established, every season carried is a choice that shapes how a garden lives.
Begin a scheme
Planning a garden for your property?
Tell us about the site and the season you're working towards. We'll arrange a survey and return a drawn master plan — the way every garden here begins.