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No maintenance garden design solutions

Advice, Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors, Practical Advice, Promoted

Not so long ago the idea of using artificial products (plants and/or grass) would have been dismissed as a fad but not anymore. In fact as manufacturing methods and refinements continued to innovate new and superior engineered products has resulted in a surge in consumer…

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Design Inspiration

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…

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Don't just plant it, colour it

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

Colours adds so much fun, pleasure and excitement to the garden but often many gardeners are frustrated with the results of their efforts to produce a colourful display. In urban gardens where space is often more limiting, this can be particularly challenging. Before deciding on…

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Knocklyon family garden makeover

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

As can be seen from some of the 'BEFORE' photos, the original garden looked jaded and the layout which was split on different levels only managed to make the garden appear smaller, less usable and increased the sense of a congested space. A much more…

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Mount Merrion Family Garden Design – room for enjoyment

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

Following the completion of a major refurbishment to the property, a large sub-urban garden which enjoys a delightful sunny aspect was re-designed and comprehensively re-modelled to provide an stunning and safe family garden offering plenty of scope for enjoyment by all family members. The long…

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Clever design and skilful landscaping transform a Rathfarnham garden

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

At the very outset of this project, the priorities were firmly established and several appeared much more obvious than others. For starters, the existing garden lacked any redeeming features, the space looked tired, jaded and overgrown. Planting was adhoc, whilst very limited in some areas,…

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Garden & Outdoors

Synthetic Lawns – allow the family to enjoy the perfect lawn everyday

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

Gone are the days when wet, muddy, messy lawns meant the children and/or pets could not play outdoors. Today's artificial lawns are so good, you will wonder why you never switched sooner. Here are three reasons to love artificial grass... Artificial grass comes in a…

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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…

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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…

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LED Garden Lighting – bright and beautiful

Advice, Garden & Outdoors

LED Garden lighting has become an essential design element in many new gardens. Used creatively, it is very effective to illuminate specific garden trees or shrubs or to illuminate other garden features such as walls, buildings and pathways. There are different lighting products to achieve…

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