Garden landscaping in Plymouth
A sloping garden that holds water is a building job wearing a gardening hat.
Steep plots, tired lawns and that one corner nobody has walked into since 2019. We reshape levels, build retaining structures that will still be standing in twenty years, and get the water going somewhere sensible.
Whole garden rebuild or one improvement, the standards don't change. New turf, raised beds, steps between levels, a path to the back door that doesn't turn into a skating rink in November.
Fixed itemised price, and the site goes away with us. No pile of subsoil left behind the shed as a souvenir.
The garden landscaping jobs we take on
Ask about anything not listedSloping garden terracing
Cut and fill into usable levels with retaining structures sized for the load, not guessed at.
Retaining walls
Sleeper, block or local stone, with drainage behind them so water is not pushing on the back all winter.
Turf and artificial grass
Prepared subgrade, proper edging and drainage. Grass laid on compacted clay dies by August either way.
Garden drainage
Land drains, soakaways and regrading for the gardens that turn into a bog every October.
Steps, paths and edging
Consistent risers, grippy surfaces and a route to the bins you can use in the dark carrying things.
Raised beds and planting
Timber or stone beds, topsoil worth the name, and planting that copes with salt wind if you are near the coast.
Why South West gardens need building work, not gardening
Around Plymouth you get slope, clay and a lot of rain. That combination puts real load on anything holding soil back and real water on anything flat. A retaining wall built without drainage behind it and without the right footing will lean, and it will do it slowly enough that nobody blames the wall.
So we start at the bottom. Levels surveyed, water given somewhere to go, structures footed properly, then the surfaces and the planting. It is less exciting than a mood board, and it is why the garden still looks like this in ten years.
Questions we get asked
The other jobs we do
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Tell us roughly what you want doing and where you are. We reply within one working day, and we'll say if it isn't a job for us.
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