Water

Shapely Pond

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's looking good surrounded by the spring green of the lawn. All the filtration that keeps the shallow...

Swan at the Lido

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...

Kay Park panoramic

Kay Park

The boardwalk, wetland and marginal beds are nearing completion over at Kay Park in Kilmarnock. It has been a long slog for all the guys, in pretty difficult conditions, so thanks to all of the team for sticking it out! The formwork for the concrete pads,...

Mudbath, Bearsden boardwalk construction in progress

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 Beatty over in Bearsden. We needed our big wellies to work on this one! The biggest...

Hailes Quarry Park, boardwalk construction

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...

Botanic Garden Pool

Botanic Garden Ornamental Pool Refurbishment

Great article written by John McMullan, Commercial Manager at EPDM roofing and lining specialist FirestonebpUK, about the Botanic Garden refurbishment project completed by Water Gems in conjunction with Firestone. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh commissioned us to carry out a refurbishment project of the trio of...

Garden Stream East Lothian

Stream Construction Project

This project to build a stream for an East Lothian client was a very interesting challenge for us. The construction of the stream required a lot of stone to be brought in. In fact, we needed roughly two hundred tonnes of stone to complete the project....

Oxgangs SUDS pool wetland

Oxgangs SUDS Pool Wetland

This is the Oxgangs SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage System) pool that we look after, which takes the water from the roofs and roads around it. Now, a few years on from when we planted it, it has turned into a proper wetland area. We look after...