This rear garden landscaping project commenced this week, the site team have been preparing the site for a new lawn drainage system which once complete will be a huge lawn and garden area. As you can see, the topsoil layer is being stripped and stockpiled to make space for the new french drainage runs which […]
Five bench plinths and benches formed in recycled materials were installed recently at an Environment Agency site in London, to provide recreational seating with a public space. This area was landscaped by Oakleigh Manor in 2003, and the grounds maintenance staff have been pruning the shrub borders and the trees surgeons have carried out their […]
Day 12 Its been freezing and its the last week of March, it felt like summer today, peaked at 4 degrees. The team have been battling with the temps, but made great progress installing the concrete foundations for the steps, the remaining retaining walls and made good headway with the paddlestone walling. The picture is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
