FOR ALL options, small to huge…water features, ponds to lakes, swimming ponds,
natural and formal, waterfalls, fountains, water features,
RHS Gold Awarded for Ponds and Planting…traditional, marginal and surrounding garden planting,
Koi or goldfish, wildlife and boggy, rills and streams, Japanese and Asian creations
MASSIVE CHOICE ON THIS HOME PAGE…
large and small we do them all, so do not be put off by the scale of some of these,
as all can be made smaller or larger by design…
which is our role as we are NOT JUST BASIC POND BUILDERS…and with us great design costs nothing!
And not just for the pond, but, for the garden if required
AND ALWAYS…ALL OUR OWN PLANTING BOTH IN AND AROUND THE PONDS…
using experience based on Royal Horticultural Society Gold Awards for Design AND Build of Ponds and Planting
DESPITE THAT ALWAYS AT COMPETIVE PRICES FOR THE SAME QUALITY OF DESIGN AND MATERIALS
Above…City Garden and ready now for it’s planting
Stepping stones give you an alternative to the arch beyond…just a little extra design touch, as that is what we do!
And below…well can’t you just FEEL yourself unwinding at the end of a busy day!
ALL SHAPES ALL SIZES AND ALL NEEDS
PONDS FOR WILDLIFE…NATURALISTIC AND PROPERLY PLANTED
(OTHERWISE THEY ARE NOT/DON’T WORK AS “WILDLIFE” PONDS), AS BELOW AND THROUGHOUT
All our own nothing taken off Pinterest
All here and all below
CHILD-SAFE SHALLOW PONDS WITH PROTECTED
BUT NOT OBVIOUS HIDDEN DEPTHS…that can be removed in later yearsSPECIALIST NATURAL ROCK SWIMMING PONDS
PURE WATER, BEING FILTERED BACK VIA A POWERFUL WATERFALL, WITH A PLUNGE POOL ABOVE, AS WELL AS PLANTING FILTRATION, ALL WITHIN A ROCKSCAPE…NEVER A HOLE FILLED WITH PEBBLES!Below…SAME RECLAIMED ROCK…BUT SMALLER
In
PORTFOLIO #1
you will see that we are also
RENOVATION, DE-SILTING, MAKEOVER and BEAUTIFICATION SPECIALISTS…
AND HERE IS A TASTER, before and after below
Below…A Pond and Landscaping Makeover combined.
Note, the distant white wall and yellow shrub (front right) to get your bearings
Wildlife or fish, calm as above, cascading as below
(all our own work nothing taken off Pinterest).
Want More than the 100+ on this page? Well,
PORTFOLIO #4
has a massive selection, without the words, of options and ideas
PORTFOLIO #1 is RENOVATIONS and REPAIRS…such as the below
P #2 is AQUATIC PLANTING (all our own nothing taken off Pinterest).
WETLAND – BOG and GARDEN PLANTING
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NOTE:
we are also Royal Horticultural Society Gold Awarded Landscapers, so…
P #3 is LANDSCAPING
around the ponds and the garden itself such as, these below…
P#4 is SWIMMING PONDS and an INSPIRATIONAL TREASURE CHEST OF IDEAS,
options and permutations from our past work to inspire you to…
CALL OUR POND EXPERT DESIGNERS
DIRECT HOTLINE…for A RELAXED, INFORMATIVE,
pre information discussion and hopefully, make a booking
OR,
FOR A QUICK RESPONSE: AS WE ARE OUT MOST DAYS BEING
HANDS-ON,
JUST SEND A TEXT TO ONE OF US ON SITE
with brief details and needs and we usually call you back in 15 mins!
07551042493
07931466030
MONDAY to FRIDAY 8am to 8pm
ALSO HERE FOR YOU BUSY PEOPLE
SATURDAYS and SUNDAY 9 am to 6 pm
ALL WITH
FREE DESIGN
SAVING AROUND £1000 COMPARED TO OTHERS!
Others,
with little or zero RHS Awards for Pond Building, Design and Planting
OUR PONDS HAVE BEEN VOTED No 1
by
Royal Horticultural Society Judges FIVE TIMES
and despite that always at comparable prices for the same quality and materials!
NATURALISTIC PONDS MADE FROM RECLAIMED STONE, PICKED (by us)
DIRECT FROM QUARRIES…THEN RE-WORKED,
FROM HUGE PILES OF OF UGLY SHAPED RUBBISH.
BY OUR POND BUILDERS, AS YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BUY SUCH QUALITY STONE (as used by others, off the shelf) FROM MERCHANTS
Renovations — & —Repairs
WE JUST LOVE SORTING OUT PROBLEMS and BEAUTIFYING EYESORES,
that 99.9% of others avoid on our scale!
RENOVATION EXPERTS (100+ here and in Portfolio No1)
NOTHING SCARES US, WE HAVE SEEN AND BEAUTIFIED THE WORST!
£££’s—min £7k to £50k+ for the very worst—£££’s
GIVEN THE BUDGET WE NEVER WALK AWAY!
Whatever you need you will find it here, guaranteed!
DE-SILTING/MAKEOVER SPECIALIST…before and after’s below
Below before and after…part of a much larger
LANDSCAPING, POND and PLANTING PROJECT…note the white building to get your bearings
CALL OUR POND EXPERTS DIRECT HOTLINE
OR, TEXT FOR THE QUICKEST RESULTS
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07931466030
MONDAY to FRIDAY 8am to 8pm
ALSO HERE FOR YOU BUSY PEOPLE
SATURDAYS and SUNDAY 9 am to 6 pm
QUICKEST RESPONSE: AS WE ARE OUT MOST DAYS BEING HANDS-ON SEND A TEXT 07551042493
WITH NAME AND BRIEF DETAIL AND WE COULD GET BACK TO YOU IN 15 MINS! FOR A FRIENDLY NO PRESSURE CHAT/CONSULTATION/SITE VISIT/ SURVEY AND FIXED PRICE QUOTE
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NOTE
PLEASE DO NOT BE PUT OFF BY THE SCALE OF SOME OF THESE
WE DO ALL SIZES LARGE and SMALL
WE FIT…NEW LINERS, SMALL TO HUGEAnd Below…FINISHED JUST 6 MONTHS LATER…spot the liner???
Nope, and that is the skill that you get with us, anybody can fit a liner, but then!!!
Voted No1 by RHS JUDGES FIVE TIMES…
DESPITE THAT ALWAYS COMPETITIVE
45 YEAR to INDUSTRIAL, PEOPLE/ANIMAL/HOOFPROOF QUALITY 100+ YEAR LINERS as above and below.
New Forest and Oxfordshire…where the Deer roam freely with their massive sharp hooves!WE ARE
THE UK’S EARLIEST BUILDERS OF
PROPER (as in the GOLD AWARDED planting) NATURAL SWIMMING PONDS…and all of that experience is available to you
AND BELOW…
THIS WAS ONLY FINISHED SIX MONTHS EARLIER, PURE CLEAR MOUNTAIN FRESH, NATURALWATER…
IMAGINE DIVING OFF THAT DECK, OR SUNBATHING AMIDST NATURE…with not a slab or composite deck in sight!
WE ALSO BUILT THE NATURALISTIC BOTHY using local stone…as we are also highly experienced in the use of natural stone for walls, rock gardens and waterfalls as you have/will see!LINERS, THAT ARE BESPOKE, MADE TO FIT, WELDED ON-SITE OR FACTORY MADE, FOR EVEN THE LARGEST POND
Full one-stop service. Domestic to Field Ponds and everything in between.
All sizes, all styles, Natural and Formal…Semi-Detached (as below) to Country Houses!
Then there’s
MAKEOVERS
AND GENERALLY RESURECTING PONDS ADDS HUGE AMOUNTS TO THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY
Surrey
FUTURE-PROOFING…for a just retired Pond Loving couple
Before and After Above and Below, note the open door to get your bearings…
MALVERN HILLS…
Project history… the clients moved to a house with stunning views (see below) apart from this! Before and after…note the distant yellow shrub, to get your bearings for the transformation
MAKEOVERS
FROM DIY FAILURES TO “PROFESSIONAL” POND BUILDERS EYESORES…
how would you like to wake up to these next two!!!
AND THIS IS A SOME POND BUILDERS IDEA OF “NATURAL”…
just look at the “BEACH” cobbles stuck into concrete like silver balls on a cake!
FORTUNATLEY THE CLIENTS HAD THE MEANS TO RIP IT OUT
AND START AGAIN, and below is OUR version!
And while we are at it we planted the whole garden with semi-mature Acers etc
WELCOME TO EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE, ALL IN ONE PLACE,
ALL THE INSPIRATION TO ENGAGE WITH US THAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED IS HERE
NEW PONDS and RENOVATIONS
So when you’ve been inspired enough…
CALL OUR POND EXPERTS DIRECT HOTLINE
OR, TEXT FOR THE QUICKEST RESULTS
07551042493
07931466030
MONDAY to FRIDAY 8am to 8pm
ALSO HERE FOR YOU BUSY PEOPLE
SATURDAYS and SUNDAY 9 am to 6 pm
QUICKEST RESPONSE: AS WE ARE OUT MOST DAYS BEING HANDS-ON SEND A TEXT 07551042493
WITH NAME AND BRIEF DETAIL AND WE COULD GET BACK TO YOU IN 15 MINS! FOR A FRIENDLY NO PRESSURE CHAT/CONSULTATION/SITE VISIT/ SURVEY AND FIXED PRICE QUOTE
officeofwaterworks@yahoo.comWe do them all…SMALL
and MEDIUM
LARGE
and HUGE
NATURAL and FORMAL
SMALL – MEDIUM – LARGE PONDS – EXPANSIVE PROJECTS – OR (as above) JUST DIFFERENT!
AND WE DO EXTRA LARGE TOO!ABOVE:
(you will note, there’s no planting, as the client wanted a purely reflective pond, and it works)
THIS OVERFLOWS
YOU CAN JUST SEE THE OUTFLOW (TOP LEFT) TO MAKE THIS WATERFALL, NEXT BELOW…
this can be modified, re-sized to fit anywhere with a two level garden. This is all made with reclaimed Yorkstone taken from an old building, and given a NEW LIFE!!!!
Local Teams and Nationwide**
WHERE DO WE WORK…WELL WHERE DO WE NOT WORK…
So if you live in or are a one hours drive for the below we have you covered.
** OR FOR EXTRA SPECIALIST PROJECTS WE STAY AWAY
Here’s 600+ New Ponds and Renovations at we have done in:
Guildford – Glasgow – Gloucester – Leeds – London and Greater – Poole – Torquay – Bristol – Worcester – West Midlands – Cambridge – Cardiff – Peak District – Hampton Court – Malvern – Stafford – Northampton – Newbury – Perthshire – Brittany – New Forest – Birmingham – Colchester – Leicester – Corbridge – Edinburgh – Peckham!!! – Enfield – Stanmore – Barnes…to name but a few
WE DO SUPERB RENOVATIONS THAT OTHERS RUN AWAY FROM!
See below and in PORTFOLIO #1
To get your bearings, note the yellow shrub we shaped and turfed around top left hiding the shed
KOI PONDS ALL SHAPES ALL SIZES
WOW LOOK!
FREE POND AND GARDEN DESIGN!!!
WHY-EVER WOULD YOU WANT TO PAY AROUND £1000+ EXTRA
WHEN YOU CAN SEE 600+ OF THE “REAL THING HERE” AND THEN HAVE A VERSION,
TRADITIONALY DESIGNED, BY YEARS OF ACTUALLY DOING IT/HANDS-ON PRACTICAL VITAL EXPERIENCE…
BACKED UP BY 600+ IMAGES HERE OF “REAL” PAST WORK! AND NOT A CAD DESIGN IN SIGHT,
JUST REAL BEAUTIFUL PROJECTS!
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SO, HOW DOES IT WORK…FOR 100+ OPTIONS AND 1,000’S OF INSPIRATIONAL PERMUTATIONS
GO TO PORTFOLIO #4
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JUST FIND THE STYLE AND THE FEEL OF THE ONES YOU LIKE
WE CAN EASILY REDESIGN/DO YOU A “VERSION” OF ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE HERE, TO FIT ANY GARDEN SPACE!
THEN WE VISIT, FREE AGAIN, AND PERSONALY DESIGN YOUR/OUR VISION
CAN YOU FEEL THE BLISS!
Reading your book, sipping your G&T or dining next to these
Before and After #3 and #4 note the gate above to get your bearings
So have you been inspired enough to:
CALL OUR POND EXPERTS DIRECT HOTLINE
OR, TEXT FOR THE QUICKEST RESULTS
07551042493
07931466030
MONDAY to FRIDAY 8am to 8pm
ALSO HERE FOR YOU BUSY PEOPLE
SATURDAYS and SUNDAY 9 am to 6 pm
QUICKEST RESPONSE: AS WE ARE OUT MOST DAYS BEING HANDS-ON SEND A TEXT 07551042493
WITH NAME AND BRIEF DETAIL AND WE COULD GET BACK TO YOU IN 15 MINS! FOR A FRIENDLY NO PRESSURE CHAT/CONSULTATION/SITE VISIT/ SURVEY AND FIXED PRICE QUOTE
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BEFORE and AFTER
TOWN GARDEN
COMPLETE MAKEOVER WITH BIRD AND GENERAL WILDLIFE ATTRACTING FISH POND
Family Run. Local Teams and Nationwide. Hands-On Personal Service with working Directors
All here and all genuine and ALL OURS! And if you see them on other sites they have been lifted!
Family Run.
Local Teams and Nationwide. Hands-On Personal Service with working Director
OLD PONDS TURNED BACK INTO NEW or ALMOST CERTAINLY, even BETTER!
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We also do SUPERB RENOVATIONS, FIXES, MAKEOVERS and FIT SMALL to HUGE LINERS…
however bad, nothing scares we have seen it all before
from £12k to £50k+
OMG YOU MAY SAY, NOW HERE’S SOMETHING OTHERS WOULD RUN AWAY FROM…now, see it happy again, below and just finished and freshy planted.
To get your bearings, note the yellow shrub we shaped and turfed around top left hiding the shed
BEFORE and AFTER…SEMI – DETACHED TO COUNTRY HOUSES
OLD PONDS TAKEN APART, RE-LINED small from £12k+ to large £30k+ to massive £50k /75k+
AND GENERALLY RESURECTING PONDS ADDS HUGE AMOUNTS TO THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY
FUTURE-PROOFING…for a just retired Pond Loving couple
Before and After Above and Below, note the open door to get your bearings…
MALVERN HILLS…Project history… the clients moved to a house with stunning views (see below) apart from this! Before and after…note the distant yellow shrub, to get your bearings for the transformation AND HERE IN CHIPPING CAMPDEN, THE SAME SITUATION AGAIN, JUST WORSE!!!Before and After…we don’t run away, nothing scares us, we have seen and fixed them all before
however impossible YOU may think, CALL US THERE IS HOPE! (See 100+ examples in Portfolio No1) such as …
LINERS – LINERS – LINERS
NEW LINERS FITTED ALL SIZES SMALL TO HUGE
Before and After Below…could yours be worse than this!!!
Well don’t despair, as you will see we have the the ways and means, given the budget and our creativity, art and experience…we get from this…
and with a lot of land sculpting, to this…
or this, as below…
and other than a great 45 year, bomb-proof liner, what is the next most important ingredient of a natural (man-made) pond that looks like its always been there???
PLANTS OF COURSE!!! SO AGAIN WE SAY, WE ARE NOT JUST BASIC POND BUILDERS WE KNOW HOW TO DIG AND PLANT A POND SO THAT PLANTS THRIVE, too shallow they die, too deep they die!
AND WE HAVE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOC’ and OTHER GOLD AWARDS TO SHOW FOR IT! AND DESPITE ALL THAT KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU GET WITH US…ALWAYS AT COMPETITIVE PRICES FOR THE SAME DESIGN LEVELS AND PLANTING
You will find those above and lots more in PORTFOLIO #1
JUST FIND THE STYLE AND THE FEEL OF THE ONES YOU ONES YOU LIKE…
AND BECAUSE OF OUR UNRIVALLED EXPERIENCE AND CHOICE 600+,
WE CAN EASILY REDESIGN, SHRINK, ENLARGE and/or DO AN EXACT COPY TO FIT ANY GARDEN SPACE!
MIDLAND COUNTIES
THE SOUTH EAST: LONDON/GREATER LONDON/ESSEX/SURRY/BERKS
CHESHIRE/SHROPSHIRE MANCHESTER MID and NORTH WALES
SCOTLAND
CALL OUR POND EXPERTS DIRECT HOTLINE
OR, TEXT FOR THE QUICKEST RESULTS
07551042493
07931466030
MONDAY to FRIDAY 8am to 8pm
ALSO HERE FOR YOU BUSY PEOPLE
SATURDAYS and SUNDAY 9 am to 6 pm
QUICKEST RESPONSE: AS WE ARE OUT MOST DAYS BEING HANDS-ON SEND A TEXT 07551042493
WITH NAME AND BRIEF DETAIL AND WE COULD GET BACK TO YOU IN 15 MINS! FOR A FRIENDLY NO PRESSURE CHAT/CONSULTATION/SITE VISIT/ SURVEY AND FIXED PRICE QUOTE
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Below is…PART OF A FULL LANDSCAPE GARDEN AND POND PROJECT
in LYMINGTON, NEW FOREST (Southern Counties Team)
ALL OF THE EXAMPLES CAN BE MADE LARGER OR SMALLER TO FIT ANY GARDEN SPACE
SO, DO NOT BE PUT OFF BY THE SCALE OF SOME OF THESE…
WE DO THEM ALL, AS YOU HAVE JUST SEEN…SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE and HUGE
Small/Medium NEW Naturalistic, Fish and Wildlife Rock Ponds start at £14k
Up to wherever your needs, imagination and budget takes you!
Repairs £7k and Makeovers from £12k
100’s of Happy CustomersNEXT A LOVELY RAISED POND IN OXFORDSHIRE…WITH OUR SPECIALIST NATRAL STONEWORK,
WIDE ENOUGH TO LAY ON WITH A FOOT IN THE WATER!
Before and after Renovation…(South Bucks)About to be transformed by our South Midlands Team, and not BEFORE time!
There are 12 LARGE KOI IN THERE!.
ABOVE IN SURREY
Above: BROADWAY in The Cotswolds
FORMAL RILL, WITH SPLASH POOL AND WATERFALLS GOING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS… (SEE FULL STORY LATER)
SET WITHIN OUR LANDSCAPING and PLANTING…yes we are also Royal Horticultural Awarded Horticultural Landscape Gardeners.
DO YOU NEED MORE THAN JUST A POND ? NOT A PROBLEM.
WITH OUR LANDSCAPING AND POND PACKAGES…IT’S EASY
BERKSHIRE…in the far distance that is the Thames!
And below a Clients Holiday Home in Perthshire and below that is how it looked “before”…which is a bit of a “WOW” TRANSFORMATION!
(North of England & Scotland Team) NATURALISTIC OR AS HERE ABOVE AND BELOW FORMAL…
ALL OF THE EXAMPLES CAN BE MADE LARGER OR SMALLER TO FIT ANY GARDEN SPACE
SO, DO NOT BE PUT OFF BY THE SCALE OF SOME OF THESE…
WE DO THEM ALL, AS YOU HAVE JUST SEEN…SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE and HUGE
SUPERB RENOVATIONS and MAKOVERS
HERE IS WHAT OUR UNIQUE SERVICE OFFERS…
#1…NO UPFRONT DEPOSITS MONTHS IN ADVANCE TO SECURE A SPACE
#2…FIVE – TEN – FORTY-FIVE YEAR GUARANTEES…
EVEN OUR PLANTS ARE GUARANTEED FOR TWO YEARS
#3…ESTIMATES…what are they?
V
FIXED PRICES…Ha Ha!
WE THINK “ESTIMATES” ARE FOR
AMATUERS…
THERE’S NO NASTY SUPRISES WITH US,
#4…WE GIVE FIXED PRICES
AND WE, IN MOST CASES, IT’S US
(Baring hidden underground hazards,
we once found a WW2 Bomb Shelter buried in a garden where we were to build a pond)
THAT COVERS THE RISK WHICH IS MINIMAL GIVEN OUR VAST EXPERIENCE
All shapes and all sizes and all needs, all here…this is a Wildlife Pond, fed by a calm tricking stream to help keep the water oxygenated,
which could be made smaller or larger to fit any space
ABOVE AND BELOW…CHIPPING CAMPDEN in THE COTSWOLDS…by our South Midlands Team
WHERE WE WERE ASKED TO COME BACK ONCE A YEAR FOR FIVE YEARS TO DO YET ANOTHER PART OF THE GARDEN! NOW THAT IS SOME RECOMENDATION!!!
#3…FREE DESIGN! YES…FREE POND
&
GARDEN DESIGN ON ALL PROJECTS
( SAVING AROUND £1000+)
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FREE, YES NATURALLY THAT IS PART OF WHAT WE DO!
SO, WHY-EVER SHOULD YOU HAVE TO PAY EXTRA
FOR A DESIGN DONE BY PEOPLE WITH LITTLE OR NO AWARDS FOR POND DESIGN
WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO GET RIGHT BOTH VISUALLY AND PRACTICALY!
WE HAVE 20+ AND 30 OTHER TOP DESIGN, POND and PLANTING AWARDS INC’
Royal Horticultural Society Golds and despite that at competitive prices with free design!
AS EVEN THE SMALLEST PROJECT WILL BENEFIT FROM A HIGH LEVEL GARDEN and POND, RHS AWARDED, DESIGNERS EYE
#6…HUNDREDS OF HAPPY CUSTOMERS
(100% CHECKABLE REVIEWS ON THE CONTACT PAGE),
such as the below whose body language says it all
RICMOND on THAMES ABOVE by our South East Team
BISHOPS CASTLE by our Shropshire Team
BELOW…and another very happy client taking a picture of the just finished pond and minimalist rock and gravel garden!
And YES despite all, that, at prices that start at JUST £12K…BUT NOT THE TWO BELOW!
WE ARE HIGH LEVEL, NATURAL ROCK SPECIALISTS
(WE HAVE TO BE TO GET THESE RESULTS)
AND HERE, YOU WILL NOT SEE A HOLE IN THE GROUND FILLED WITH TEN TONS OF BEACH PEBBLES
WITH A PATIO SLAB WATERFALL LIP FROM TRAVIS PERKINS.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL…IT TAKES THREE YEARS TO TRAIN OUR POND BUILDERS BEFORE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO BUILD ON THERE OWN! ALL TRAINED ON THE JOB AND NOT IN A CLASSROOM ON A ONE WEEK COURSE!
Here is Phillip, and as you can see, he already cares, at GRAND DESIGNS, LONDON, who turned out to be one of our most creative in the use of natural stone, here we used RECLAIMED Lakeland Slate (unlike others that would use easy to get bags of PEBBLES AND BOULDERS RAPED FROM OUR BEACHES)
WE DO…JAPANESE and ASIAN STYLE PONDS and GARDENS…
and below is here is the real THING, in Japan, that we use for inspiration
ALL or PARTS THAT YOU SEE BELOW WE CAN CREATE…in YOUR GARDEN…
as we did for The Bank of China…Chelsea Flower Show
HERE IS A SUPERB, KOI POND, STREAM AND PLANTING (just being finished) in (back to reality) Stanmore Middlesex,
you won’t believe what this looked like before…note the ancient Oak…and it’s pointy slit rhside
Day 0ne…GETTING READY FOR A NEW LIFE…and what a new life
AND IF YOU WISH WE CAN ALSO DESIGN A COMPLETE GARDEN AND PLANT IT AROUND A POND…HERE’S ABOVE A TOWN GARDEN WILDLIFE POND! SURROUNDED BY OUR PLANTING JUST TWO YEARS AFTER FINISH!
JUST FEEL THAT PEACE, IN WHAT WAS ONCE YOUR RUBBISH OLD LAWN!
OUR PONDS AND GARDENS VOTED No 1 and BEST in SHOW…WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT,
by ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY JUDGES FIVE TIMES!
Despite that always at competitive prices for the same quality Design, Build and Materials!
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT, A ONE-OFF, LIKE THESE WELL LOOK IN PORTFOLIO #4