Kay Park Pond, complete with fountain

Re-opening of Kay Park Pond

The pond at Kay Park in East Ayrshire has been officially re-opened and is now being enjoyed by visitors, young and old alike. The naturalisation project that Water Gems has been working on, has involved installing a boardwalk, creating a wetland and constructing marginal beds. Plant...

Kay Park panoramic

Kay Park

The boardwalk, wetland and marginal beds are 99% finished over at Kay Park in Kilmarnock. It has been a long slog for all the guys, in pretty difficult conditions, so thanks to all of them for sticking it out! Working on this was completely different from...

Nesting Wrens

Nesting Wrens

One of our clients has a house martin nest under their porch. In the winter it is used by wrens to sleep in, and a whole bunch of wrens have been using it during the recent cold nights. You can see it takes them about 10...

Mudbath, Bearsden boardwalk construction in progress

From Mudbath to Curving Boardwalk

From mudbath to curving boardwalk and wetland – the Bearsden project is just about finished. These were pretty rough conditions for the guys building the boardwalk and wetland system for Balfour Beatty over in Bearsden. We needed our big wellies to work on this one! The biggest...

Hailes Quarry Park

We've really enjoyed working on this project at Hailes Quarry Park in Edinburgh. Here's Nick Easterbrook, Hubert and Stephen putting the finishing touches to the boardwalk and wetland. It looks a bit of a mud bath just now but once all the big wetland plants go...