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...
11th September 2018
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Re-opening of Kay Park Pond
The pond at Kay Park in East Ayrshire has been officially re-opened and is being enjoyed by young and old visitors alike. The naturalisation project that Water Gems have worked on there has involved installing a boardwalk and creating a wetland and marginal beds. Plant establishment...
4th July 2018
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Swans at the Lido Pool – Summer 2018
Remember the swans at the Lido pool that we planted up and look after for Falkirk council? We've got some lovely photos - aren't the cygnets gorgeous! They have had such a tough time this year with the female having to cope with dog and fox...
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...
17th April 2018
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Spring at The Stenhouse Lido
The Stenhouse Lido pool is bursting into life now that spring has finally come, the swans are nesting again too. There are lots of things that you would expect : some bright yellow marsh marigold, the frog spawn amongst the flag iris, and willow catkins. The swans...
From Mudbath to Curving Boardwalk
From mudbath to curving boardwalk and wetland – the Bearsden project is just about finished. These were pretty rough conditions for the guys building the boardwalk and wetland system for Balfour Beattie over in Bearsden. We needed our big wellies to work on this one! The biggest...
Hailes Quarry Park
We've really enjoyed working on this project at Hailes Quarry Park in Edinburgh. Here's Nick Easterbrook, Hubert and Stephen putting the finishing touches to the boardwalk and wetland. It looks a bit of a mud bath just now but once all the big wetland plants go...