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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The cascade pools at the new John Hope Gateway had leaked from the time they were constructed and this required a large-scale re-lining project for the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. Water Gems won the contract to redesign the lining system, and to create a walkway...