Author: Tamsin, Secret Garden
Brimstone Ash Decking Construction
25 October 2024
Along with creating the framework, the boys have also been digging post holes, to construct a new fence around the garden. The garden looks out ...
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Georgian Townhouse Garden Adjustments
23 October 2024
Team Glenn set to work scalping the two small lawn areas, along with the removal of the old slab stepping stones. As with many Bristol ...
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Rotten Decking Removal – Preparation for Brimstone Ash
16 October 2024
The aim of this landscaping project is to remove the rotten decking, and replace it, as well as adding in new flower borders, with a ...
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Autumn Gardening: Gunnera and Ginger Lilies
14 October 2024
We really enjoy working in this garden. It’s not your usual suburban garden, and is filled with a variety of sub tropical plants. Today we ...
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Block Paving Driveway
10 October 2024
Bowland Stone delivered three different sizes of charcoal rumbled blocks to our site. First off, these were used to edge the borders and the drainage ...
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Driveway Construction Continues…
6 October 2024
A lot of preparation had been done the previous week, with the base layer of type 1 compressed with a wacker plate. Two drains were ...
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Reclaimed Brick and Slabs in Garden Design
29 September 2024
We enjoyed working on this steep garden project, creating decking with storage underneath, a new lawn, reclaimed slab patio, and a three tiered, raised border ...
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Driveway Construction
27 September 2024
The existing driveway was simply tarmacked, but had super weedy borders, and was generally in a bad state aesthetically and didn’t look very inviting. Our ...
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Starting a Mini Garden Meadow
22 September 2024
Since heavily scarifying and planting native meadow plug plants previously, which wasn’t as successful as we’d hoped, we decided that the ground needed further preparation ...
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The Terraced Garden Continues…
17 September 2024
If you’d like to see the very start of this project, click here to see our previous blog post about it. The timber frame for ...
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