Drought-Proof Your Garden — Good Irrigation

Designed by gardenersNot just plumbers

20+ yrsWater infrastructure engineering

SussexBrighton, Hove & surrounding areas

Sister companyTo The Good Gardener

Water engineering expertise. Gardening expertise.

Good Irrigation combines more than 20 years of water infrastructure engineering experience with practical horticultural knowledge from The Good Gardener.

You don't want to think about watering. That's the point.

Most people don't want to know about emitters, pipe sizes or pump curves — they want their garden to look after itself.

"What actually happens to my garden when there's a hosepipe ban?"

"I don't want my garden's future decided by however dry this summer gets."

"I don't want to water my garden by hand every evening."

"I'm going away for three weeks — the pots will be dead by the time I'm back."

"My plants keep dying and I don't know why."

"I don't want to waste water — or my water bill."

Three ways to get your garden watered automatically

Every system starts with a free assessment — we design around your garden, then give you a fixed price before any work starts.

Essential

For smaller gardens

Automatic drip irrigation, done properly.

Automatic drip irrigation
Timer / controller
Pressure regulation & filtration

Typical system: drip + timer

Smart — Most Popular

For larger gardens

Multi-zone automation, built with drought in mind.

Multi-zone automatic irrigation
Soil & rain sensors
Seasonal adjustment
Designed with hosepipe bans in mind

Typical system: multi-zone automatic irrigation

Water Secure

For premium gardens

Rainwater-first watering, with mains as backup.

Rainwater harvesting & storage
Pumped irrigation
Full automation & monitoring

Typical system: rainwater harvesting + pump + irrigation + automation

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Capture rain. Store it. Water your garden with it.

Rainwater you collect and store can provide a valuable source of irrigation water that isn't dependent on mains supply restrictions.

See What Your Roof Could Collect

Your water shouldn't depend on someone else's rules.

The rules aren't one universal standard — each water company sets its own conditions for what's still allowed. We design systems around your supplier's actual rules, not a generic claim.

Understand Your Supplier's Rules

Simon working in a client's garden border in Sussex

The difference

Irrigation designed by gardeners, not plumbers.

An irrigation installer knows pumps and pipework. As a sister company to The Good Gardener, we also know what plants actually need — how hedges behave, how newly planted shrubs differ from established borders, how pots dry out faster than beds, and how demand changes through the seasons. We design irrigation around your garden, not just the easiest way to run a pipe.

Common questions

Often yes — most water companies allow an approved drip or trickle system that isn't handheld, has a pressure-reducing valve and a timer, and delivers water directly to the soil without spray or run-off. The exact wording varies by supplier, so we check your specific water company's rules as part of your assessment rather than assuming one blanket answer.

It depends entirely on your garden's size and layout, which is why we quote after a free assessment rather than publishing a fixed price list. Installed systems from £750.

Yes — that's one of the most common reasons people get a system installed. A timer-controlled system waters on schedule whether you're home or not, and can be adjusted remotely on smart controller models.

For a garden of any real size, a stored-rainwater system can supply a meaningful share of your watering needs, and it sits outside mains water restrictions entirely. We'll size a system to your actual roof area and garden demand as part of your assessment, rather than guessing.

Let your garden look after itself.

Automatic irrigation designed around your garden, your plants and your water supply.

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