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Landscape Gardening in Rathmines – controlling the spread of mature Bamboo

Bamboos are very popular plants with many gardeners, frequently used in urban gardens to provide evergreen screening for privacy or simply as elegant lush background planting displays. Once established, bamboos are very resilient plants and often the only routine but essential maintenance is watering during…

Garden & Outdoors

Family garden landscaping in Leopardstown

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

Despite the very poor weather good progress has been achieved on replacing the previous garden with a much more appealing and practical design. A very space hardly overlooked made it an easy decision to replace the old deck with a raised patio. Sweeping curves are…

Garden & Outdoors

Sandyford landscaping project

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

Preparing ground for a new lawn is a slow process often requiring some patience as overworking or rushing the grading process of the top layer potentially risks damaging the micro structure of the soil. Good dry conditions are essential, working soil in wet weather will…

Garden & Outdoors

Small garden landscaping with sense appeal

Advice, Garden & Outdoors, Uncategorised

Creating a new design for a small sub-urban garden is an interesting but exciting challenge. Putting things in the correct order and position is very important, for example, design and locate the patio where it is most likely to be used and bearing in mind…