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...

Portfolio image, Trossachs Boardwalk, wooden bench seat, flowers, trees

Trossachs Boardwalk

Harmonising with Nature in the Trossachs Our client wanted to enhance this area of naturally wet ground for both her family and the local wildlife. Small, unlined ponds, as well as a boardwalk, shelter and bench give this space further purpose and interest for both. The boardwalk, constructed...

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....

Portfolio image, Aviemore garden, trees, pond, wildflowers

Aviemore Garden

Shepherd House is the home of Sir Charles and Lady Ann Fraser, and has been recognised as one of the best small gardens in Scotland....

Culross garden built by Water Gems, designed by Carolyn Grohmann

Culross

With stunning views over the medieval village of Culross to the Firth of Forth and the bridges beyond, this award-winning garden has a very special location indeed....

Great Stuart Street Edinburgh, BALI award-winning garden, built by Water Gems, designed by Carolyn Grohmann

Great Stuart Street

Edinburgh New Town gardens are often a challenge. They can be tricky shapes, shady as a result of the high buildings around them and access from the street is frequently via a rabbit warren of passageways or through the property itself. ...