Little Sparta, Water Gems, remedial work, pond cleaning and maintenance

Little Sparta

Little Sparta is a world-famous concept garden, and is widely acknowledged as the acclaimed Scottish artist Ian Finlay’s greatest work. ...

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....

2010 Gardening Scotland Show Garden

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....

Henderson Row front garden, black slate slabs, basalt setts, gravel garden, built by Water Gems, designed by Carolyn Grohmann

Henderson Row Garden

The owner of this front garden in Edinburgh's Henderson Row had reached the end of her tether with her overgrown, high maintenance front garden. She asked garden designer, Carolyn Grohmann, to come up with ways of simplifying the garden, reducing the maintenance, but still allowing...

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....

Swimming ponds, Garden in Inverleith, Edinburgh by Water Gems

Inverleith Garden

This Edinburgh garden is the one passers-by can see from the Water of Leith Walkway and as a result it is very well known among Edinburgh dog walkers and residents. It is also the garden which won us the coveted Grand Award at the 2009...

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. ...

Golden Orfe in Lloyds TSB water feature, Water Gems, pond cleaning and maintenance

Lloyds TSB

When Scottish Widows asked us to come and look at the three shallow pools outside their offices, we found a site that was in need of serious care and attention. ...