Full-garden work built around your ideas, turfing and turf removal, raised sleeper beds, decking, ground preparation and drainage. We're collaborative, not design-led: you bring the vision, we bring the recommendations and the build.
15+ Years
Combined experience
MyBuilder
Verified profile
Homes & Commercial
Restaurants, hotels, gyms
6am – 8pm
7 days a week
Highlands-wide
Inverness & surrounding
Landscape work spanning turfing and turf removal, raised beds and sleeper structures, timber decking, ground preparation and drainage. Groundwork is included as part of landscaping and garden jobs, it isn't offered as a standalone trade for extensions or builders.
Homeowners planning a garden reset, house-movers making a new garden their own, and commercial premises (restaurants, hotels, gyms) upgrading outdoor space for guests and staff.
When a garden layout no longer works for how you actually use it, when new turf or beds are needed after building work, when a slope needs terracing or a wet corner needs draining, or simply when you're ready to invest in the garden properly for the first time.
Landscape work is where good groundwork earns its keep, turf on badly-prepared soil dies patchy, raised beds without drainage rot from the base up, decking without proper joist supports goes bouncy in a year. Doing the invisible half properly is what makes the visible half last.
Turf rolled straight onto compacted or weed-ridden soil looks fine for two weeks, then dies unevenly. Preparation, cultivation, levelling, weed treatment, top-dressing, is 80% of a successful lawn.
Wet corners, boggy lawns and standing water aren't cosmetic problems, they kill planting, rot timber, undermine paving and attract midges. Landscaping without drainage thinking bakes those problems in.
Deciding one element at a time, a patio here, some decking there, a raised bed later, usually costs more than a joined-up plan, and produces a garden that reads as a patchwork rather than a coherent space.
We work from your ideas and vision rather than imposing a design service you didn't ask for. Recommendations, not lectures.
Cultivation, levels, drainage and sub-base work included as part of the landscape job, not skipped to hit a lower quote.
Ground properly prepared, high-quality turf rolled tight, aftercare notes handed over. A lawn that beds in, not one that patches out.
Correct fixings, correctly-supported timbers, damp-proof detailing where timber meets ground. Structures that survive Highland winters.
Wet corners, boggy lawns and standing water designed out through soakaways, channel drains or level changes, not covered up with mulch.
Elements planned and sequenced together, not built piecemeal, so the finished garden reads as one intentional space, not a patchwork.
You tell us what you want the garden to do (kids' space, entertaining, low-maintenance, produce) and we walk the plot with you, flagging what's realistic and what to prioritise.
We come back with clear recommendations, materials, planting approach, sequencing, and a fixed quote for the agreed scope. No design fee, no lock-in.
The invisible work: cultivating soil, correcting levels, installing drainage where needed, laying membranes, building sub-bases for hard landscaping.
Turfing, raised beds, sleepers, decking, patio, planting or whichever combination the project involves, sequenced so nothing gets damaged by later trades.
Site left clean and finished. We give you honest aftercare notes (watering the new turf, first-year care for planting) so the garden bedrock we've built doesn't fall over in month three.
We're not a design studio and don't offer a formal garden-design service. What we do is listen to your ideas, walk the plot with you, and give you honest recommendations on what will work, what won't, and what a sensible sequence is. If you want a formal design drawn up first, we'll happily work from someone else's drawings, but the majority of our landscaping customers come to us with a rough vision and let us build it, not a set of blueprints.
Turfing is one of the jobs where preparation is everything. We cultivate the topsoil to at least 100mm, level it accurately, treat any weed pressure, top-dress with a fine tilth, then lay quality supplier turf in tight-butted rows. New turf needs consistent watering for the first three to four weeks, we hand you clear aftercare notes so the lawn establishes rather than dies back. Turf removal (for a new patio, driveway, decking or planting bed) is a routine part of landscape jobs and includes disposal of the lifted material.
Sleeper beds are one of the most cost-effective ways to transform a garden, instant structure, planting depth, and visual weight. We build to your dimensions using new hardwood or softwood sleepers (never used railway sleepers, which leach creosote), fixed with correct-length landscape screws or timber-lock fixings, and lined where the beds will hold soil against timber to slow moisture damage. Sleeper retaining walls (for terracing sloped gardens) are engineered with proper deadmen or ground anchors where load requires it.
Timber decking is a great addition to a level or gently-sloped garden. We build on treated timber joist frames sitting on concrete pad or post foundations, spaced correctly for the deck board thickness, with the deck boards themselves screwed (not nailed) for long-term stability. Deck heights over 300mm above finished ground get suitable balustrading. Composite decking is available where budget favours near-zero long-term maintenance over the up-front cost.
Ground preparation covers levelling, cultivation, weed treatment, membrane laying and sub-base construction, the invisible work that makes everything else last. Drainage covers soakaway installation, channel and gully drains, French drains for boggy areas, and correcting existing surface-water problems. Both are offered only as part of garden and landscaping jobs, we don't take on standalone groundworks or drainage as trade services for builders or extensions.
For restaurants, hotels and gyms we've delivered outdoor seating areas, entrance planting, terraced grounds and boundary work. Commercial landscape jobs are scheduled around your trading hours where possible and finished to a standard fit for public-facing space.
Straight answers on cost, timing, materials and what happens after the job's done. Anything else, call 07398 794085.
Tell us what the garden should do and we'll come back with recommendations, a clear plan and a fixed price. No design fee, no lock-in.
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