4th September 2020
Inveresk Village
Struan has been out to the garden at Inveresk and it is filling out beautifully! Designed by Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens Design. ...
19th August 2020
Rebar vegetable enclosure
This vegetable enclosure, built in a garden in Edinburgh, has woven and welded rebar raised beds and path edging. The enclosure metal frame and netting will protect the plants from birds but still allow the plants to be exposed to the sunlight and rain. ...
18th June 2020
in Gardens, Wildflower
Mummy hare and her two leverets
These are some photos from a client in Fife where we have done a lot of wildflower and hedgerow work. Mummy hare left her two leverets hiding in the garden while she hopped off for the day before coming back for feeding time at dusk. The garden also...
9th June 2020
A conversation with our Landscape Architect, Heath Urquhart
Read about Heath's inspiring journey so far, from farming in New Zealand to landscape design in Scotland - Gardening dreams and peonies. ...
1st May 2020
Edinburgh garden in progress
This beautiful garden in Edinburgh is in progress. As said by the client, they are going to have a ‘WOW’ garden! Well done team, great work and cant wait to see the finished result!...
Inverleith garden – 11 years on
Eleven years later, the pool is still crystal clear right through to the floor 2m down and the clients swim in it every morning. The rebar garden shed is doing well too – the green roof has thrived and the steel rebar rod has hardly changed...
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. Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens Design was the designer and is interviewed in this month's ESPC Premier Living magazine. The garden, which is...
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...
16th January 2018
Inveresk Village
Chris and Michael have been doing a good job on this project in Inveresk village, outside of Edinburgh. Designed by Carolyn Grohmann, this small courtyard has lots of tricky detail with fanned granite setts, reclaimed Yorkshire flagstones, black slate, paving, Corten steel, and pebbles set into...
14th November 2017
Wildflower Seed Planting
Some new ways to do wildflower seeding at the big job that we are doing out in West Lothian. Wildflower and hedgerows are a great combination for new wildlife habitat, and will look lovely too. An Autumn sowing has germinated really well and is looking like...
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