Water

Cheese Vat Water Feature

This garden water feature just shows what a French cheese vat can do for your garden if put in the right place! This is a pool and centrepiece we created for Fiona Budden Garden Design out in East Lothian. Surrounding paviours by Boxelder Landscapes.  ...

Callendar Park

The reflective properties of water illustrated by a pond we created for Froglife, in Callendar Park, Falkirk. Apart from reflecting the sky, the trees and the local architecture, it will be a great frog spawning pond too.   If you want to find out more about this...

Small pond and cascade

As well as large ponds and pools, Water Gems build many smaller ponds and cascades and this is a great example of these projects.  Finished in August 2020, this project was a complete rebuild of an existing pond in a garden in Fife. Using Firestone liner...

Wildlife Pond

In the winter of 2019, Stuart and the team built this stunning wildlife pond on an estate in Perthshire. It sits within the beautiful garden, designed by Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens Design, alongside a new build house designed by Lorn Macneal Architects' Sula McEwan. The pond...

‘I do’

Kay Park boardwalk used as a backdrop for wedding photos! We were delighted to hear that the new boardwalk we installed as part of the pond renovation project, has featured in some recent wedding photos. We are just so glad that we had it all finished and...

Kay Park Pond, complete with fountain

Re-opening of Kay Park Pond

The pond at Kay Park in East Ayrshire has been officially re-opened and is now being enjoyed by visitors, young and old alike. The naturalisation project that Water Gems has been working on, has involved installing a boardwalk, creating a wetland and constructing marginal beds. Plant...

BALI Landscape Awards 2014, Scorched oak bench, Urbis lily bowl, Edinburgh Eton Terrace garden, built by Water Gems, designed by Carolyn Grohmann, BALI award winning 2014

BALI National Landscape Awards 2014

The 2014 BALI National Landscape award winning garden that we built at Eton Terrace was featured in the news again. This month's ESPC Premier Living magazine features an interview with Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens Design, who created the design for this garden. The garden, located in...

Shapely Pond – 1 Year On

Here are the latest photos of the 'Shapely Pond' we built last year for a client off Dalkeith Road, as part of a garden designed by New Dimensions. It is looking good surrounded by the spring green of the lawn with all the filtration that keeps...