About Us

Water Gems is made up of an enthusiastic, diverse and hard-working team of people. Many have worked with Water Gems for a number of years and have built up an excellent range of skills and specialisms. We operate regular training and professional development courses for everyone, which allows us to work on an ever widening range of projects. Please meet the team.

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Stuart Booth

Director

Stuart has a wonderful eye for water-based design and is our specialist in “informal” pond construction, streams and cascades. He has a degree in Interior and Environmental Design and an HND in Art and Design. Stuart is also great in a digger, is a trained Firestone liner installer and ticketed for herbicide spraying.

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Struan Reid

Director

Struan is our Landscape Manager and Head Foreman and oversees most of our landscaping work. Whether it’s a question about machines or materials, he’s always our go-to man for coming up with a solution. With a background working in Ireland on large sites, we’ve yet to see Struan get fazed by the scale of any of our jobs.

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Heath Urquhart

Director

Water Gems’ Landscape Architect, Heath joined the team from SRUC with a BSc in Garden and Greenspace Design and now creates our planting plans, designs gardens and oversees landscaping projects. Outside of his day job, Heath also finds time to volunteer with community based gardening projects and helps Binny Plants plan and build their RHS Chelsea stands.

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Nick Easterbrook

Nick Easterbrook is our water technician. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is brilliant at putting together filter and lining systems and the technical bits of pond building generally. Nick does a lot of our boat work and is a trained OASE technician, an approved Firestone EPDM installer and is also ticketed for aquatic spraying.

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Rachael Booth

Rachael originally joined the team to take charge of marketing and all things social media. She now works closely with the directors, helping with the day to day operation of the business. She brings lots of enthusiasm, positivity and good ideas to the team.

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Kevin McKie

Kevin is a valuable member of the water team bringing a positive, intelligent approach to all his work. He has a particular facility for working with timber constructions, for example decks, boardwalks and garden bridges.

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Nigel Gray

Nigel is part of the landscaping team with several years of experience in the field. He is experienced in all types of landscaping work and in driving a digger, an invaluable skill for large projects. Nigel has a creative flare that matches his practical approach.

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Kenny Wright

With a background in stone masonry, Kenny has masses of ability with natural stone. He uses this, and his eye for detail, to create beautiful, technically difficult water features.

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Bruce Scott

Bruce works with us on projects on both the landscaping and water-based sides of the business, helping out wherever needed and is a trained Firestone liner installer. He is a cheerful, hard-working member of the team.

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Lee Cockburn

Lee joined the team in 2020 with a background in farming and lots of experience in woodwork and fencing. Lee brings a calm, practical mind to his construction along with providing a detailed finishing touch.

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Archie Sanderson

Archie has a keen interest and academic background in all things horticultural. He is enthusiastic and positive and as a result is a valued member of our landscaping team, developing planting plans and carrying out plant based projects as well as working on garden construction.

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Rob Chalonstone

Rob has a degree in Media Practice. He utilises skills developed whilst constructing sets at music festivals to improve the designs and construction of our water features and ponds.

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Ralph Chater

Ralph has a degree in Interactive Media. He is practical, positive and hard-working and uses these attributes to contribute to both our landscaping and water teams.

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Ben Jones

Ben previously worked for a water-feature company, so brings lots of experience of water-based projects to his work. He is practical, hard-working and easy to get along with, so is a great asset to both our landscaping and water-feature teams.

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Nick Benge

Consultant

Nick has a degree specialising in Ecology and a Masters in Aquaculture, and knows everything you ever needed to know about ponds!

AWARDS

The quality and standard of our work has been recognised over the years by the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI). Water Gems have won several awards since joining the association, including the Grand Award in 2009. We also have two gold medals to our name for show gardens at Gardening Scotland.  In 2023, two of our projects won their categories at the Pro Landscaper Project and Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards ceremonies in London.

Awards are not only an excellent way of showing our clients how well we do things, but they are also a tremendous motivation for the people who work for, and with, Water Gems. Our aim is to carry out award-standard work for all our clients.