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...

Accessibility Garden

This large but uneven front garden in Edinburgh’s Morningside area required a complete makeover to create a garden space with accessible ramp, parking, bin storage, seating and privacy.  The clients were keen that the garden did not look like it had wheelchair access. Materials include black...

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...

Glasgow Science Centre

In September 2020 the Glasgow Science Centre approached us with a request to improve the existing shallow concrete ponds that wrap round the building.  These had always presented a maintenance problem. The Centre was to host part of the COP26 Climate Change Conference in 2021...

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...

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,...

Inverleith

Sitting not far from Edinburgh’s Botanic Gardens, this family garden was re-worked to create more usable spaces for our garden enthusiast clients. Planting beds were enlarged and re-shaped, a patio was re-laid to adjust levels, a granite sett area was created with an Urbis water bowl...