Stuart

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Why should I have my garden designed – part 1

Posted on: 27 Mar 2013

                Part 1 – The finances Lets not bet around the bush! There are no short – term financial gains, you have to pay professional people to do a professional job, then it pays! Why & How If your garden is designed and built professionally will it will […]

Sevenoaks, Kent – Landscape Design & Build project update

Posted on: 19 Mar 2013

Day Six After Snow, during milder weather & rain,  somehow the team are making good progress. Its roll up your sleeves and crack on attitude that the guys are pushing this project on with so well. As you can see, my last update structural retaining walls are being erected, tier 1 & the radial tier […]

Spring is here, Get your new vegetable garden started!

Posted on: 17 Mar 2013

Hi everyone, Its time to get the vegetable garden started, you will be rewarded with great tasting food for the home, lower supermarket bills and its also great fun. Heres a few tips for you to get started. If you don’t want the hard work, our Horticultural team will do that for you. Good luck, […]

New Garden Design & Build project commences in Sevenoaks, Kent

Posted on: 14 Mar 2013

This new project commenced this week, and finally the snow early this week is thawing today. This project is a re-designed rear garden scheme involving the creation of a new larger rear terrace, a terraced lawn area at 75cm above patio level, retained by natural stone faced retaining walls. then a large set of steps […]

What to plant in difficult soils and places within your garden

Posted on: 14 Mar 2013

Just a few tips to help you choose plants within those tricky situations within your garden. Heavy Clay Soil in Deep Shade Clay soil is easily compressed when wet and water can be slow to drain away.  This can make it cold and wet in winter and if this is compounded by being in a […]

Landscape Design & Build project, Whitstable Kent.

Posted on: 06 Mar 2013

We were back in Whitstable today at this Winter 2012 project to complete the remaining hardscape works before implementing the new low maintenance planting scheme. The project is looking really good however we have had a problem with the paint system used on the aluminium pergola structure. Unfortunately, the primer does not appear to of bonded […]

New resin bound gravel driveway surface, Mid Kent, laid today!

Posted on: 06 Mar 2013

The sun was out again today, and so were the resin team. This resin bound gravel surface, colour Harvest Crunch, area 370m2, was laid today, the laying team were on site at 7am carrying out the preparation, started laying at 850am, worked through the day intensely to complete the area at 520pm. There are 2 […]

Resin bound gravel driveway – installed today in Shenfield, Essex

Posted on: 05 Mar 2013

The Resin Gravel team were back in action today laying this new resin bound gravel driveway. This driveway was due to be surfaced 1 week before christmas 2012, after 2 months of freezing or wet periods we were finally glad to blow the cobwebs of the resin gravel kit and get laying this new driveway. […]

New project – 3 acre lake scheme – soft-landscape phase

Posted on: 03 Mar 2013

This project commenced this week, the initial stages shown in the photo are completing the island planting scheme before the lake lining is installed and the filling process starts, which will prevent access to the island. The team are installing a 1.5m deep root barrier around the rim of the island to contain all roots […]

Landscape Design, Paving & Resin Bound Driveway, Front Drive update

Posted on: 24 Feb 2013

Landscape Design, Paving & Resin Bound Driveway Driveway works update. Friday saw a busy day for us on site. With the sawn granite sett picture frame installed and cured we were able to lay the 220m2 of base coat tarmac. The whole area was set out with string lines and pins the get the appropriate […]