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...
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...
Not all of our ponds are bespoke one-off designs from scratch but instead are renovations of existing ponds that have failed in some way. This, however, does not hinder the creativity and workmanship shown by our team. This project is a great example of how we...
The pond at Kay Park in East Ayrshire has been officially re-opened and is being enjoyed by young and old visitors alike. The naturalisation project that Water Gems have worked on there has involved installing a boardwalk and creating a wetland and marginal beds. Plant establishment at the...
This is an infinity pool we built in East Lothian over the winter of 2019 and 2020. The basic idea was to create a relatively long thin pool with a stainless steel edge at the far end so that the pool water looks continuous with the...
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 result of several weeks' hard work in the hot sunshine in July in beautiful Elie in Fife. Water Gems Foreman, Michael, led a team to realise the design of Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens and transform a long, sloping back garden. Using...