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Summer Kitchens Make A Comeback In Style : TreeHugger

If you’ve got a big garden – something like this would be superb!! Summer kitchens were common a hundred years ago since stoves took a long time to heat up and a long time to cool, and in the summer

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Glasgow West Garden Design: Rural Relaxation in Kelvindale

A west-end garden design from exciting designer Nicky Patterson of Clarkston based Glasgow Landscaping and Garden Design firm GardenImprovements.com

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Glasgow South: Small Low Budget Makeover in Mount Florida

I’m happy i have met the clients needs and hopefully in the near future they’ll be rockin’ out to some gigs in there new garden very soon!

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Glasgow South: Contemporary Garden Design in Pollokshaws

An exciting garden design in the southside of Glasgow from designer Nicky Patterson from Clarkston based garden design and landscaping firm GardenImprovements.com

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Ayrshire: Terraced Family Garden Design in Stewarton

The Plan is to incorporate a circular theme based on the client’s own idea of having circular steps from the back doors: I have developed this throughout the space to produces an orbital series of elipsing circles to form each element in the garden design.

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Renfrewshire: Entertainment Decking Garden Design in Howwood

My initial ideas for the garden design were to compliment the shape of the plot – Robert didn’t want the space to be divided up in the manner that it had been previously and wanted to view the whole area from the vantage of the requested deck area. My use of diminishing circles accentuates the length of the garden certainly, but helps to lead the eye down and around the garden and take in the pleasure of the planting.

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Great Garden Umbrellas and Parasols

A funky and modern twist on the traditional garden parasol design: these can be used when the garden design is such that a traditional umbrella structured parasol might compromise the overall theme of the space. Coolaroo Shade Sails are bold,

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Glasgow South: Stylish Chill-out Garden Design in Giffnock

The cascade water feature pools into a rill which follows down into the reflective pool. The rill heightens the audio and visual qualities of the garden – and will also act as a handy wine and beer cooler!!

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Great Hammocks for the Garden

Check out these fantastic stand-alone hammocks as seen on SpotCoolStuff: Hammocks have come a long way since pre-Columbian natives in South America wove together sheets from the bark of a Hamack tree and strung them up between two poles. Hammocks

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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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