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Press Coverage for Nicky and GardenImprovements.com

You may have been fortunate enough to catch our superstar Designer and Landscaper Nicky Patterson on a live TV makeover last week. Here’s how it all happened!

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Save our bees: the detriment of arrogant development and the plants that could halt bee decline.

When I first started landscaping around 10 years ago, it seemed that every client’s mantra was “no maintenance” and this was more often than not transposed into a garden design that, in order to satisfy the client, mostly comprised concrete

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We’re gearing up for 2010

Well our 2009 garden building year was cut a week short by the snow and ice and we have had an extended break over winter of 4 weeks!  We are champing at the bit and raring to go for 2010,

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New-Build: Old Problems

I am always excited by the prospect of these garden designs since the grounds are indeed left as a blank canvas and we, with the clients, can truly indulge on a personalised and bespoke design that will fit well with the client’s lifestyle aspirations and procure the most function possible from their new garden space.

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Thanks to Our Staff and Customers

The snowy weather that affected the east coast of the country last week arrived to the GardenImprovements.com studio in Glasgow at the weekend. Clearly this early onslaught of winter has had a dramatic effect on the country’s ability to do

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Website Update!!

We received some mixed feedback form our December 2008 website revision with the flash navigation and music uploading.  I decided to remove the flash navigation and music altogether and changed the layout slightly to be simpler. We have retained some

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Landscape and design with Artificial Lawns

When commissioned to design and landscape a new garden (especially around Glasgow) I am often asked to “have a look at the drainage”, or “do you think it’d look odd without a lawn, Nicky?” -  this is especially true for

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Accessible Garden Designers!!

We have now installed our chat facility at the GardenImprovements.com website so that new customers can contact us directly to quickly ask about our service before they proceed with their enquiry!  You can ask us if we work in your

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Don’t Move: Improve!!

The importance of garden improvements for your properties and more importantly the important role that design holds in this process.

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Eat From Your Very Own Kitchen Garden!!

Green, Lean and Credit Chrunchy – Have your own kitchen garden!! We are offering to design and build a kitchen garden for your garden in January or February 2009 for a credit CRUNCHILY friendly 20% off both drawings and labour!!

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