Family Garden, Holbrook, Suffolk

Filed under: pond, paving, lighting, garden on Jan 30, 2010

The Client brief - to create a family garden out of what used to be a pub carpark, and a brick, glass, crockery dump - well thats what i discovered the garden space was made up of but all that hardcore and rubbish was hidden under a thin layer of turf, scabby grass, and weeds.

Stream & Waterfall for existing Pond

Filed under: water feature, pond, garden on Aug 05, 2009

This was a pond that had been made recently by a landscaper but a rather unimaginative effort with the pond liner clearly visible as was the pipe for the pump and the electric cable. The stream they built was one of those narrow gutters with same sized rocks lining the length and a waterfall of about 2-3 inches. In fact the stream was so flat that it also emptied at the back of the stream by the filter meaning the client could only run it for a few hours before having to fill the pond up again.

Pond and garden Suffolk

Filed under: water feature, pond, plants, planting, pergola, lighting, irrigation system, garden, design on Aug 05, 2009

The brief for this garden was to create a small natural looking pond and provide planting for the whole garden, The planting plan was to be of a tropical look using hardy palms, Ferns, and other evergreen shrubs that would add to that tropical look such as Fatsia, Dicksonia Antartica, Acuba along with Red Acers, Bamboo and a number of perennials.

Suffolk Planting

Filed under: planting, design, case studies on Jan 12, 2009

The Brief

The client had recently re-developed a public building into a home and was looking for someone to come up with a formal planting plan to fit in with her architects plan of hard landscaping.

Pergola Suffolk

Filed under: design, case studies, build on Jan 12, 2009

The Brief

A Patio which lacked a defined social area it had a couple of tables with sets of chairs and then a large and expansive lawn. We designed and built a large solid Oak pergola with a brick surround in front of which we planted a row of Lavender so that one was led from the Pergola onto the lawn

Design and build of large patio

Filed under: design, case studies, build on Jan 12, 2009

This project was to re-design and build a new patio to go where there was an old 1970,s patio made up of concrete slabs and overgrown leggy shrubs, We also undertook a smaller one at the side of the house as well. Along with the new Raj Green Indian Sandstone patios is a new planting scheme to go in the now cleared beds also an irrigation system and lighting. This stage of the project will be carried out at a later date.

Lower Sloane Street SW1

Filed under: planting, maintenance, case studies on Dec 19, 2008

This is one of our maintenance contracts. It runs down half the length of Lower Sloane Street in London SW1 its about 180mtrs long but only about 12mtrs wide. Earthmoves took over the communal garden a couple of years ago with the widening and additional planting of the shrub border as it was very narrow and left little or no room for perennials.

This venture involved much physical grunt work as dozens of railway sleepers, tons of topsoil and hundreds of potted plants had to be brought in by hand down a steep set of stairs, along a narrow tunnel, and then up and around another set of twisting stairs. This project was then followed up by a pruning of the London Plane trees that overshadowed the entire length of the garden

Guys n Dolls SW1

Filed under: plants, garden, design, case studies on Dec 19, 2008

The Brief

When we first saw the garden it was a building site. Since the shop was to sell kids clothes we wanted somewhere they could go and play or sit whilst their mums browsed the shop.

Water feature garden

Filed under: tropical, plants, design, build on Dec 19, 2008

In the winter of 2008/09 Earthmoves designed and built this garden which involved a small natural looking pond/water feature, a solid Oak Pergola as well as a tropical looking planting scheme using Hardy plants, an automatic irrigation system, and a low voltage lighting system.

As this project was built during the Winter we will post new pics of the change in planting from Winter to Summer.