Hard Landscaping

Landscaping offers wide opportunities to use a range of alternatives to established materials, so if doing something “different” appeals, think about...

Balconies and flat roof spaces can offer a great opportunity to produce a really different sort of garden area and although they impose their own...

Although the days of the great walled gardens have largely gone, walls still have an important role to play in even the most modern outdoor space....

Long-established as the hard-surface of choice in warm, dry climates, decking has become increasingly popular in Britain over recent years – as its...

While the word “patio” automatically conjures up the instant image of an area of paving slabs in almost everyone’s mind, despite their widespread...

Fences are often seen as just a way of marking a boundary or as a means of keeping your dog in – or next door’s out! However, they can be decorative...

For most landscaping projects, while the plants provide the colour and clothe the finished design, it is the elements of hard landscaping – the...

It makes a lot of sense to re-use reclaimed materials for hard landscaping in the garden. New regulations now make builders responsible for...

Paths and steps form both practical and design elements in the landscape, linking the different parts of the garden as much by eye as they do...

Patios and terraces have become firmly established as essential features of the modern garden, offering a way to broaden the usefulness of our plot...

Pergolas, arches and trellises are unbeatable additions to any patio, terrace or pathway, adding new height to the vertical dimension, while...

There are few gardens that will not benefit from some kind of pond or water feature and with today’s advanced range of liners and materials, coupled...

Adding ramps and paths that allow wheelchair users to access a garden is getting more common. Wheelchair access for private gardens can be tricky...

For many of today’s gardeners, the inspiration to build planting areas amid stone and gravel comes from concerns over climate change and the...

With the possible exception of the plants you choose, there are few elements in the garden which offer quite so much scope for an expression of...

Container gardening is one of the most flexible and versatile ways of growing plants and the diversity of candidates for these conditions is rivalled...