Category Archives: Landscape gardeners Edinburgh
Patio and Decking
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- Here’s a picture of a project we completed recently in Corstorphine , Edinburgh , showing Sandstone Paving Patio and Raised Timber Decking
Landscape Gardeners and Decking in Edinburgh
Here’s a Hardwood Timber Deck that we built for a client in Edinburgh. The Deckboards are Indonesian Yellow Balau, FSC approved.
The clients wanted a space to entertain in the garden that could be easily accessed from the patio doors. The Deck has been installed at the same height to internal floor to give seamless access. The Deck is split levelled to give ease of access to the garden.
Uplighters were fitted to lower deck and L.E.D lights to upper deck and steps and Balustrade to upper level.
Landscape Gardeners Edinburgh
Here,s a Landscape Gardeners Decking project we recently completed in Rathυo, Edinburgh. This a Redwood pine timber deck with the boards laid smooth side up. The deck was stained black using Joten Demmideck Decking and Garden stain. The balustrade is constructed from stainless steel pillars and glass panels.
L.E.D lights were also fitted to the perimeter of the deck.
Patio in Barnton, Edinburgh
– here’s some pictures of our latest project in Barnton, Edinburgh. Showing a terraced patio constructed from sandstone paving in random bond, with a spherical stone water feature.
Landscape Gardeners Edinburgh
Landscape Gardeners Edinburgh
Patio with water feature
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Paving Edinburgh
Paving Edinburgh, here,s a patio that we installed for a customer in Currie, Edinburgh. We used Marshalls Fairstone Paving to create a patio in random bond with mortar joints. We also installed a hardwood timber deck and garden fencing with gate.
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How to Choose a Landscape Gardener
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Choosing a professional landscape gardeners for your landscaping, garden design and build projects is an important decision and one you’ll be glad when you get right.
A professional, experienced landscape gardener can take most of the hassle out of the design and build of your garden so you get real peace of mind knowing that your outside space will grow and develop in the way that is best for you. A little time and effort spent now will yield a great deal of pleasure for many years to come.
How to choose a landscape gardener
Experience – Gardens are as unique as their owners so you should choose a landscaper who has the confidence and experience to deal with whatever they might find in your garden. Your landscape gardener needs to be able to interpret your ideas and find the best way to achieve them in your garden.
Communication – The most successful projects always have good clear communication, so make sure you get involved with your landscape gardener right from the start. Always let them know how you feel about what they are proposing.
Case studies – ask to see examples of their work. Any good landscaper will be proud of their work and they will probably have loads of photos or even a video for you to look at. Although looking at images can give you some idea of someone’s work they can never do full justice to beautiful landscaping and design. A good way to start is by looking around and finding landscape designs that you love. Choose neighbourhoods that tend toward the style you desire.
Testimonials – it’s always a good idea to get as many testimonials from some of their past customers as you can.
Quote – Make sure the garden landscaper puts their quote in writing on official headed paper showing a postal address and full contact details.
A little time and effort spent choosing the right garden landscaping company will ensure your garden project runs smoothly and within budget.
The Garden Construction company are a landscaping company that have many years experience and offer a comprehensive range of landscape gardening throughout Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and Perthshire.
Whatever the size of your project we’d love to talk to you about your ideas, call us today, freephone on 0800 328 6458 for a free consultation and quote. We are friendly, honest and very good at what we do.
Garden Designers
Garden Designers
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for a client in Edinburgh requiring Garden Designers, sited just off Holyrood park- Designed And Build by Garden Construction Co. The customer had taken out the kitchen window and installed a large triple patio doors to newly converted kitchen dining room. The area immediately to the back of the house was originally a brick retaining wall 1m from house wall and 1.2m high.We excavated the area by hand as it was inaccessable for a digger. We then constructed concrete block retaining walls with timber copings and cement rendered them , to be painted by client. After fitting the patio doors were fitted we created this deck design for Rachel to make full use if the space in conjunction with her new kitchen. The deck is fitted to the floor level of the kitchen and matches the colouring of internal floorboards an the deck boards run in the same direction as the kitchen floor boards to give the feeling of continuity giving the deck which also makes the kitchen seem bigger and the deck part of the room. With the patio doors open in the summer this area really does become a stylish outside room.The deck also reflects light back into the kitchen which is quite dark being East facing.
Timber Decking to patio doors with rendered walls and timber copings, redwood pine decking. garden-co.com
timber decking with grooved non-slip surface.
The steps to upper terrace were constructed fom timber sleepers with stone paving inlays for treads.
MORE DECKING
decking with pergola
Decking fitted here smooth side up.Most deck boards are reversable being grooved on one side and smooth on the other. This deck is well complimented by the planting scheme , rhodedendron to foreground ,and bamboo to centre. the pergola adds height to the design and in this case we trained a damson fruit tree over the top of the framework to form a canopy to the deck area.The various pot plants such at the Acer “bloodgood” give interest to the timber decking and also soften the strong lines of the deckboards. Planting to the edge of the deck that spills over onto the boards such as the Geranium with the blue flowers to bottom right ” johnsons Blue” also serve the same purpose of softening the deck. A blue l.e.d. uplighter was fitted to the base of the pergola to illuminate the damson tree in the evening . The blue light gives the foliage a lovely silvery appearance at night.
Geranium ” Johnsons Blue”
Herbacious cranesbills , decked out from early-summer to autumn with lots of large flowers blue . It is a lovely plant that looks best when allowed to make a dense patch of ground cover, with its mounds of elegantly divided leaves. A good plant for a cottage garden or informal border .
Geranium ” johnsons Blue”
Acer palmatum Bloodgood – One of the best purple-leaved Japanese maples. make sure you pick a good pot to really set the planting off. Remember – unglazed pots will crack in the frost.
Bloodgood Japanese Maple Acer palmatum var. atropurpureum ‘Bloodgood’, great foliage to contrast against green vegetation and makes a striking pot plant