Garden Guru2022-03-10T14:12:12+00:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices|
You can have both a child friendly garden and adult friendly garden at the same time with GardensRUs. When children come into our lives, the garden that was a peaceful and relaxing haven becomes a place for ballgames, cycling, den making and mud pits, and the garden can become an area more for the [...]
Garden Guru2021-07-14T17:10:58+01:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
If you are looking to put some colour into your borders, we can recommend two beautiful plants that will flourish year after year. Lavatera Ruby Star is a semi evergreen shrub with vibrant pink flowers. Lavatera works well at the back of borders as it can grow [...]
Garden Guru2021-07-14T16:44:47+01:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Design, Uncategorised|
We recently completed a garden makeover on behalf of a Client. The makeover included both a patio and pathway. We would like to thank our Client for sending these photographs in to us and we would like to say that we are very pleased to have been of assistance. We hope our client enjoys many sun [...]
Garden Guru2021-06-16T12:16:32+01:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Sometimes our gardens can feel overwhelming. Curveballs happen in life and we may find that for a whole variety of reasons, we do not have the time to look after the garden in the way we would like, and that the garden that was originally to be our dream garden becomes a major stressor in [...]
Garden Guru2021-06-16T11:55:05+01:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Growing your own vegetables and fruit is a fabulous and very satisfying thing to do and which is a great activity for all the family to get involved in. There is still time in the season to do this. We find that children enjoy growing tomatoes and love picking the juicy red tomatoes directly off [...]
Garden Guru2021-06-08T13:12:22+01:00May 26th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Creating a child friendly garden can be very important, especially if the children are very young. Having an uncluttered soft bouncy lawn edged with soft shrubs such as Santolina, Ribes, Wiegela, Rosemary, Philadelphus, getting rid of any split canes or spiky plant supports, having a lockup shed, and filling in ponds (even shallow ones) will [...]
Garden Guru2021-05-13T13:49:18+01:00May 13th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
If you feel that your garden or yard space is too small to grow fruit then please do give us a call to discuss. There are many ways in which fruit trees can be grown and we are here to help. Fruit trees can be trained against most walls or fencing or they can be supported [...]
Garden Guru2021-04-23T11:53:43+01:00April 23rd, 2021|Categories: Design, Garden Maintenance, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|Tags: five sisters zoo, fsz, gardensrus, grass, scotland, stockists of turf, turf, turfitt, West Lothian|
Our brand new Garden Centre presently stocks turf. The Garden Centre is located in the Car Park of Five Sisters Zoo, so there is no requirement to enter the Zoo. The cost of the Turf is £3.50 per square metre. Please either call at the Garden Centre or email Brian at brian@fivesisterszoo.co.uk to order [...]
Garden Guru2021-04-23T11:38:49+01:00April 23rd, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised, Uncategorized|Tags: bedding plants, five sisters zoo, flowers, fruit, fsz, gardensrus, hanging baskets, herbs, planters, scotland, strawberries, Tomatoes, West Lothian|
It is the time of year when we start to think about filling our surroundings and the garden with more colour and scent by incorporating summer bedding plants , planters, and hanging baskets. Hanging baskets and planters can be used for a multitude of purposes such as growing herbs, growing trailing tomatoes, growing strawberries and, of [...]
Garden Guru2021-04-15T13:27:16+01:00April 15th, 2021|Categories: Design, Uncategorised|Tags: client reviews, gardensrus, happy clients, scotland, West Lothian|
'GardensRUs recently excavated our garden and added a drain and returfed. They also removed the old patio slabs and replaced with timber decking. All in all the work took five days and our garden is looking great. Very professional, efficient and helpful, quick turnaround to get a quote and to proceed with the work. Thanks [...]
