Victorian Gate Lodge, East Lothian

**Gallery update - new photos added July 2023** The brief from the owners was simple – make it beautiful! They wanted their tired garden transformed into a tranquil and relaxing natural space that linked to the surrounding countryside and welcomed the local wildlife. Following the removal of...

Orwell Cottage

In amongst tall tenement buildings in Edinburgh’s Dalry district sits Orwell Cottage, a tiny, one bedroom Airbnb property with the smallest of garden spaces wrapped around it.  We were invited to turn this hopeless garden space into something special, partly to enhance the property but...

Haddington Wildlife Garden

One of our specialities is transforming relatively sterile gardens, dominated by grass and paving, into natural wildlife havens, with ponds, stone features and wildflower beds. We designed and built this wildlife garden using local stone to create raised planting beds, path & pond edging, and a...

Juniper Green Garden

Our clients had recently purchased a lovely mid-century house and they wanted an outdoor space that offered a social entertaining area, as well as a place to enhance a home-based business. It needed to look cohesive, while still giving individual zones. Following some demolition works...

Maggie’s Centre, Edinburgh

Through the Autumn and Winter of 2018/2019 we carried out some soft landscaping work at Maggies Edinburgh as part of an extension to the Centre including clearance, earthworks, soil improvement and planting.  The garden had been designed by Maggies supporter Emma Keswick with most plants...

Large pool with sculpture

Edinburgh Garden

This garden was built through the winter and spring of 2020 and designed by Ruth Gebbie for our clients in the Grange area of Edinburgh. The original brief was for a garden that included a moving water feature with a sculptural element, lighting, terracing and planting,...

Merchiston Garden

This Edinburgh garden is one of two 2016 BALI award-winning gardens and was built as part of the complete refurbishment of a Georgian property....

BALI Landscape Awards 2014, Scorched oak bench, Urbis lily bowl, Edinburgh Eton Terrace garden, built by Water Gems, designed by Carolyn Grohmann, BALI award winning 2014

Eton Terrace

A low maintenance garden where vegetables as well as flowers and shrubs could be grown, this garden has been featured in several press articles and publications, most notably The English Garden in May 2016....

Henderson Row front garden, black slate slabs, basalt setts, gravel garden, built by Water Gems, designed by Carolyn Grohmann

Henderson Row Garden

The owner of this front garden in Edinburgh's Henderson Row had reached the end of her tether with her overgrown, high maintenance front garden. She asked garden designer, Carolyn Grohmann, to come up with ways of simplifying the garden, reducing the maintenance, but still allowing...