Cheese Vat Water Feature
What a French cheese vat can do for your garden if put in the right place! This is a pool and centrepiece we did for Fiona Budden Garden Design out in East Lothian. Surrounding paviours by Boxelder Landscapes. ...
23rd October 2020
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Callendar Park
The reflective properties of water illustrated by a pond we dug for Froglife in Callendar Park, Falkirk last winter. Apart from reflecting the sky, the trees and the local architecture it will be a great frog spawning pond too. ...
2nd September 2020
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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 of this year, the project was a complete rebuild of an existing pond in a garden in Fife. Using...
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...
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...