Every discipline in one studio — design, soil, planting, irrigation, structures and maintenance. Nothing subcontracted out and then walked away from.
Nature's Touch Landscape is a landscape practice based at Saheliyon ki Bari in Udaipur, working on palaces, heritage hotels, resorts and private estates across Rajasthan and elsewhere in India. The studio has been working since 2015.
We design, build and maintain landscapes. Those three are usually three different companies, and keeping them in one is the decision the whole practice is built around.
Most landscape work in this region is brokered. One firm wins the job, a second does the planting, a third is hired for maintenance a year later, and by then nobody remembers why a particular tree went where it did — or who to ask when it fails.
We keep design, soil work, planting, irrigation, hard elements and maintenance in one studio. The practical consequence is continuity. The crew that selected a specimen knows how it should be pruned in year three. The person who laid the drip line knows which zone sits on which valve when something needs changing. And when something goes wrong there is one party to ask, not four pointing at each other.
It also means we can say no properly. If a site will not support what has been asked for — a lawn where the water will not sustain one, a roof that will not carry the load — we say so at survey stage, before anyone has spent money on a drawing.
Survey first. We walk the site before we draw anything. Soil is tested rather than assumed. Water is established at source — what the property has, what it has in May, and what it costs when the mains runs dry. On a roof, the slab is assessed before a single pot is specified.
Then drawings. A planting plan, a layout, and a services drawing showing where irrigation and drainage will run. Drawings exist so the person building it and the person maintaining it in year five are looking at the same intention — and so the client can say no to something on paper rather than after it is planted.
Then the build, in sequence: ground preparation, hard elements, irrigation, planting. On occupied properties the programme is phased around guests in defined zones rather than opening the whole site at once.
Then establishment. The eighteen months after planting decide whether a scheme survives. We would rather carry that stage ourselves than hand over and hope.
The studio is in Udaipur and most of our work is across Rajasthan — Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Dholpur and the heritage properties between them. We know the soils, the water calendar and the nurseries here, which shortens everything.
We work elsewhere in India on design and build where the project justifies it. For those, the sequence shifts: drawings and photographs first, a survey visit before anything is finalised, and a maintenance regime built around the property's own team rather than ours.
Work completed includes Raj Niwas in Dholpur, Narsingh Bagh, Inder Prakash in Udaipur and Lodha Farm.
Six disciplines, all in-house — soft landscaping, terrace gardens, irrigation, kitchen gardens, pergolas and shade structures and estate maintenance. The services page covers each in detail, and hotels and resorts covers how the work changes on a live property.
What we have learnt doing it is written up in the journal.
Every scheme begins with a survey. Send us the essentials and we will arrange one, then return a drawn plan — not a quotation against an assumption.
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