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...
The 2014 BALI National Landscape award winning garden that we built at Eton Terrace was featured in the news again. This month's ESPC Premier Living magazine features an interview with Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens Design, who created the design for this garden. The garden, located in...
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...
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...
Chris and Michael have been doing a good job on Inveresk Village project, 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 mortar being...
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...
Wildflower seed planting at a large West Lothian garden project that we are involved in. 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 a (rough) lawn already....
The gabion wall construction in West Lothian has started. The baskets are filled with a facing layer of sandstone from CED Stone, then backfilled with a conventional quarry stone for gabions. Once finished this retaining wall will hold up the soil banking behind it. It makes a...
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...
