Garden Guru2020-08-18T14:37:42+01:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Design, Garden Maintenance, Uncategorised|Tags: clear area, decking, garden, landscaping, more manageable garden, patio, relaxing garden|
Our Clients were working from home. They asked us to create a more manageable garden and a more relaxing space. We cleared the old planting area, created wooden decking, and added a small patio area, with a border for planting. [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-20T17:49:25+01:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Design, Garden Maintenance|Tags: 5sisterszoo, Children, fairygarden, family, fivesisterszoo, landscaping, scotland, westlothian|
At GardensRus, as well as undertaking residential landscaping projects, we also undertake a range of commercial landscaping projects. In 2019, Our Landscaping Team completed work 0n the Fairy Garden at the Five Sisters Zoo, West Lothian, Scotland, the Fairy Garden being a very popular attraction for both children and adults alike. Please do [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-20T11:39:57+01:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Design, Garden Maintenance|Tags: hot tub, plum slate chippings, privacy, slabbed pathway, trellis, turfed barbecue area|
Our Clients asked that we create an area for a hot tub, with some privacy. They also wished for a separate turfed Barbecue area to be created. We created wooden decking and added a trellis for privacy. We also replaced a slabbed pathway, and similar slabbing was used throughout the garden. Plum slate chippings were [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-20T11:13:37+01:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Design, Garden Maintenance|Tags: garden, house, kerb appeal, Monoblock, power washing, weeds|
Power washing is one of those truly satisfying tasks. It may take a while to power wash a patio or driveway, but the finished result can be truly sensational and long lasting, and can vastly improve a house's kerb appeal. In this photograph, we power washed a Client's Monoblock and then filled the gaps with sand, [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-17T10:55:13+01:00July 17th, 2020|Categories: Garden Maintenance, Gardener's advices|Tags: crops, feed, greenhouse, greenhouse jobs, July, ventilation, water|
Here is a list of jobs to do in the greenhouse in July: Pick all crops in the greenhouse as soon as they are ready. Water and feed all crops in the greenhouse regularly. Thin out biennial seedlings and prick out Winter/Spring bedding. Keep on top of ventilating the greenhouse and apply a further layer of [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-17T10:57:17+01:00July 16th, 2020|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices|Tags: Children, Football, Fun, Games, Gardens, Make believe, plants, strong plants|
We would like our children to have fun in the garden. We would not like to have to ask them to stop kicking a ball around, playing make believe games, or having sword fights just because we are worried of the damage that may be done to the garden plants. Here is a list of plants [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-17T10:55:43+01:00July 16th, 2020|Categories: Design, Garden Maintenance|Tags: borders, Design, evenings, garden, garden landscaping, goardendesign, landscaping, makeover, patio|
Our Clients were looking for an area where they could enjoy the early evening Sunlight. We created a levelled patio area with retaining walls. Further into the garden we created borders with wooden sleepers. GardensRus supplied the plants to complete the garden makeover. Our client was delighted with the work. We were pleased [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-16T12:19:14+01:00July 10th, 2020|Categories: Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|Tags: delphinium, forgetmenot, foxgloves, honesty, July, seed sowing, stocks, strelitzia, sweet rocket, wallflowers|
July with its high levels of light and warm long days is a great time for seed sowing perennials, biennials, and indoor exotic plants and, if we sow them now, they will flower next year. Here is a list of Flower Seeds to sow in July: Pansies. Delphiniums. Forgetmenots. Honesty. Stocks. Foxgloves. Strelitzia. Sweet Rocket. Wallflowers. [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-16T12:18:58+01:00July 10th, 2020|Categories: Garden Maintenance, Gardener's advices|Tags: clematis, cut flowers, garden jobs, July, lavender, philadelphus, prune shrubs, roses, things to do in the garden, wisteria|
Here is a short checklist of things 'To Do' in the Garden in July relating to Climbers, Shrubs and Trees: Cut Lavender for drying. Deadhead and prune Roses. Clip fast growing hedges and Privet. Prune Wisteria and Philadelphus. Take softwood cuttings of shrubs. Take cuttings of Clematis. And thinking ahead: Order Spring flowering bulbs from [...]
Garden Guru2020-07-16T11:41:54+01:00July 8th, 2020|Categories: Design, Uncategorised|Tags: adding value, garden design, garden maintenance, house price, kerb appeal, moving house, selling houses|
In 2019, it was estimated that a neat and tidy garden could add as much as 20% on to the price of a house. If you are thinking of selling your house at some point in the future and would like to try and add some value to your house before putting your house on [...]
