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Glasgow South: Busby Garden Design Complete

You may remember reading about Matthew’s first successful design which was for a small sun-lover’s garden in Busby?  If not then you should take a look to see his approach to the design but anyway here is the finished garden – minus planting which we’re doing next week!!

This garden was built in the Busby area, next to Clarkston in the southside of Glasgow, Scotland by Nicky Patterson and Matthew Thomson of GardenImprovements.com

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Originally posted 2009-10-06 15:55:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Landscaping Glasgow South: Thornliebank

Thornliebank landscaping Glasgow by you.Here is an example of a recent landscaping project we undertook in Thornliebank near to Giffnock in the southside of Glasgow.  Andrew S asked us to landscape and revamp the front garden which had been left in a bit of a state by the builders who had recently put an extension onto the rear of the house.

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Originally posted 2009-10-21 19:05:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Glasgow South: Busby Garden Design Film

Here is the completed project with plants from Matt’s small garden design in Busby from earlier this year;  the second in our YouTube series!  Let us know what you think!

To see a commentary of the design process for this project please click here

Originally posted 2009-10-26 18:13:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Ayrshire: Family Party Garden in Stewarton – Finished Works

Welcome to our very first article in our brand new Project Portfolio Series.  This garden has been designed by Nicky Patterson and built by the team of garden designers and landscapers at GardenImprovements.com.

This project comes from Stewarton near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. This was a rather extensive build  with a lot of hard landscaping and with a lot of hard graft we got the job done to a very pleasing finish. The photo below is a reminder of how it looked before we started. (more…)

Originally posted 2009-07-14 11:29:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Stewarton Garden Design on Youtube

Hi! This is the first of hopefully many of our garden designs and landscaping projects that we’ll be adding as YouTube videos.  This project comes from Stewarton in Ayrshire:

To see a commentary of the design process for this project please click here

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Nicky Patterson, Designer @ Gardenimprovements.com

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Originally posted 2009-10-22 14:40:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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East Kilbride: Large Family Garden Design near Gardenhall – Complete

Welcome to another project article in our Project Portfolio Series.  This garden has been designed by Nicky Patterson and built by the team of garden designers and landscapers at GardenImprovements.com.

The clients were Richard and Karen E from the Stewart Milne developement at Jackton in East Kilbride near Glasgow in Lanarkshire, Scotland. (more…)

Originally posted 2009-07-20 07:30:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Glasgow South: Small Garden Design Giffnock

A contemporary and bright design for very small 7x6m plot in Glasgow’s southside.  This space really was very confined and we were required to offer more than 1 patio as well as bringing in some style, focal points and a sense of space!!

Designer: Nicky Patterson

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Originally posted 2010-02-23 10:00:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Ayrshire: Small Family Garden Design in Stewarton – Complete

Welcome to our next article in our brand new Project Portfolio Series.  This garden has been designed by Nicky Patterson and built by the team of garden designers and landscapers at GardenImprovements.com.

This project comes from Stewarton near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. You can see the design process for this Ayrshire garden here and there follows the finished article as a landscaped garden! (more…)

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Originally posted 2009-07-16 07:00:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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