A private client approached us to help them rewild an area of field in County Durham. We created a 20m by 13m biodiversity pool with a larch deck, beach area and all native planting. In addition, we scraped off large areas of turf and used...
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...
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,...
A note from Nick Benge, Water Gems’ founding director. . . "These are some of my favourite water features that we have done. I love the way the water surface sits higher than the edge of the trough and the curved meniscus edge to the water. ...
The brief here was to create a pool with clean lines, two waterfalls and a pool hut. The work was done over the winter of 2018/19 in some pretty bad weather and we discovered various underground services that were not on any drawings but the end...
This is the “shapely pond” that we built over the summer of 2017. Apart from the pond we also re-laid the lawn and did various other work in the garden. The design originally came from New Dimensions Garden Designers where the brief was for a shallow, reflective,...
The 2010 Gardening Scotland show garden we created at Gardening Scotland won us a gold medal and the coveted Best in Show title. We designed and built an ambitious structure from rebar - reinforcing bars used in the construction industry....