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Built and planted

Paths, stonework and layered planting of the kind the crew builds around Burlington, with a note on how each is done. The images are licensed for commercial use. None is presented as work completed by this business.

  • A narrow cobbled path running between tall flowering hydrangeas and low planting towards a stand of trees.
    01 A cobbled path between hydrangeas and low borders. A narrow walk only stays usable when the planting either side is set back from its edge on planting day, which is how every walkway bed is spaced.
  • A dry stone wall of grey fieldstone part-built, with a person in work gloves standing behind it.
    02 Fieldstone rising course by course. Each stone bridges the joint below it and the face leans slightly back into the slope, the same batter set on every wall before the backfill goes in.
  • Rows of wooden raised beds inside a plastic hoop house, planted with young brassicas and separated by paths of red bark mulch.
    03 Raised beds in a hoop house, divided by red bark paths. Paths wide enough to kneel on let each bed be weeded and mulched from both sides without anyone treading on the soil.
  • A young rainbow chard plant with red and yellow stems growing up through straw mulch beside a wooden bed edge.
    04 Rainbow chard pushing up through straw. Mulch keeps moisture steady through a dry week and starves weed seed of light, which is why drip line is laid beneath it rather than on top.
  • A circular garden bed seen from directly above, with rings of young plants and a ring of pale stones around a central gravel circle.
    05 A round bed from above, planted in rings around gravel. The rings are pegged out with stake and string before a plant goes in, so spacing follows the scaled plan rather than the eye.
  • Tall clumps of fine upright ornamental grass growing out of red bark mulch.
    06 Upright ornamental grass in bark mulch. Clumps like these are left standing to give the yard winter structure through the snow, then cut back once at the end of winter before new growth starts.
  • Flat stepping stones set into gravel in a Japanese garden, with pruned pines and shrubs behind in soft mist.
    07 Stepping stones bedded in gravel below pruned pines. Each stone is set firm so it never rocks underfoot, and spaced to a natural stride rather than to the pattern it makes from above.
  • A close view of red-veined sorrel, its green leaves marked with dark red veins, growing in a planted bed.
    08 Red-veined sorrel in a planted bed. Leaves with colour this strong hold the front of a border as well as any flower, and they thrive once heavy soil has been amended with compost.

Marked out, built, walked through

Every job, from a single planted bed to a full bluestone terrace, passes through the same three stages, and each one is finished properly before the next begins.

  1. Prepared
    Wooden raised beds in a hoop house, filled with soil and planted with young seedlings, with bark paths between them.

    The area is measured, beds and paths are pegged out, and the soil is tested and amended first, so plants go into ground that is ready for them.

  2. On site
    A dry stone wall of grey fieldstone part-way through its build, with a worker standing behind it.

    The build follows the marks. Stone goes down course by course on a compacted base, beds are dug and filled, and levels are checked with a laser before the next stage starts.

  3. Finished
    A finished circular garden bed seen from above, planted in rings around a gravel centre.

    The yard is raked, the street swept and the finished work walked with you, so anything that needs adjusting is put right while the crew and tools are still on site.

Plan your yard with us

Tell the crew what the yard does now and what you want it to do. The reply offers the days an on-site consultation can be made.

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