Colinton Gardening Services - garden landscaping for Edinburgh

We have a series of articles offering advice for your Edinburgh landscape gardener project. These articles range from how to set a budget through to where to go for landscaping materials. I hope these articles help you with your garden makeover project.

This raised bed was installed in an area of garden in deep shade. Using appropriate plants for deep shade, evergreen for year round interest and low maintenance means this troublesome part of a large garden is now a interesting feature. There were other landscape gardener services employed in thi...

Our landscape gardener services were employed to install a retaining wall. This is part of a larger garden design and landscaping project here in Edinburgh. We chose wooden sleepers as this is a much more cost effective than brick/stone landscaping materials. Clearly, building a retaining wall us...

A recently built raised bed from our landscape gardener services. This raised bed was built using wooden sleepers and planted with herb.

Raised beds don't have to be square or rectangular. For this Edinburgh garden landscaping project we designed two wooden sleepers raised beds that were installed in a neglected part of the garden.

A recent garden makeover and renovation project in Edinburgh. We do a lot of winter garden tidy up projects at this time of year. This project included mono-block driveway repairs and a complete renovation of the rear garden. We renovated some stonewalling, strimmed the waste ground, re-establish...

Most of our garden landscaping work at this time of year is providing a winter tidy of gardens - cutting back herbaceous growth and trimming hedges. We came across this spirea which is deformed through a process called fasciation - in this case this mutation caused the stem to be flat. This is qu...

This landscaping project included cladding the steps with the same Indian Flagstone slabs used for the garden patio.

This garden landscaping project used Indian Flagstone buff-brown slabs to match the existing walls/bricks.