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Granite driveway design and landscaping in Terenure

As is so often the case with driveway design and installation, the emphasis is on providing more space and scope for car parking with plants and borders taking a subordinate role. Space permitting, the scope and results can be so much better. Here as well…

Contemporary garden design and stylish landscaping in Dublin 9

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors, Practical Advice

An impressive example of high end urban garden design and landscaping with many discerning features including natural granite paving, raised planter beds, unique planting scheme boasting several focal points. Privacy is ensured by specimen bamboo planting, safely contained in raised planters and under planted with…

Garden & Outdoors

Ways to put a spring into your garden

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

As soon as there is a glimmer of stretch in the evenings is usually the time when many of us start to look critically around the garden and consider making changes to breathe new life and purpose into aspects of the space which may be…

Family garden design landscaping in Terenure

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

For our latest project we are in Terenure, this time to re-design and re-landscape the garden belonging to an old property which had recently been sold and refurbished by the builders on behalf of the new owners. We were commissioned to develop a new design…

Landscaping ideas for family garden in Leopardstown

Garden & Outdoors

As we enter Day 5 of this project, the construction is continuing to make good progress. Boundary walls, rendered and painted are now a distinctive and stylish backdrop and helping to increase the sense of extra space in this garden. Meanwhile work on the the…

Small gardens – design and landscaping ideas

Garden & Outdoors

What are the key factors which determine the price of a property? A popular response and a favourite quote of many Estate Agents is "Location, location and location!” Similarly when designing and landscaping gardens, 'space, space and more space' is the key ingredient. Space for…

Family garden in Stillorgan is stunningly rejuvenated by creative design and expert landscaping

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

Our current project in many ways is a very rewarding experience and satisfying undertaking. Similar in size and scope to many large family garden sites of similar vintage, offered much design potential and excellent exploitable garden opportunities but from the outset the key objectives and…

Garden & Outdoors

Garden patio landscaping

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

Progress on our current project enters a very important phase, the building of patios and pathways, which are common to most gardens and critical to the overall space enjoyment and use. Patio design is not only about what size and finish but positioning of patio…

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Design and landscaping the garden of an Edwardian property in Terenure

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

If I am honest, landscaping front gardens is always of particular interest to me. Why you may wonder is the difference between landscaping a front or rear garden? Well there are several reasons but two in particular are worth noting. Landscaping front gardens is often…

Garden & Outdoors

Landscape Gardening in Rathmines – controlling the spread of mature Bamboo

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

Bamboos are very popular plants with many gardeners, frequently used in urban gardens to provide evergreen screening for privacy or simply as elegant lush background planting displays. Once established, bamboos are very resilient plants and often the only routine but essential maintenance is watering during…