This landscaping award went to Carol Horne, Gilford Rd. Sandymount, Co Dublin, for her front driveway and back garden. This was a challenging landscaping contract due to range of landscape expertise required to execute correctly.
The work carried out to achieve this award winning garden can be summarised below:
Front:
- Extend entrance
- Supply, spread and compact 50mm layer of Ballylusk dust
- Supply and install apron using 200x100x50mm tumbled oatmeal cobbles
- Supply and create path using oatmeal granite slabs bordered with tumbled oatmeal cobbles
- Supply and create beds using 200x100x100 tumbled oatmeal granite cobbles
- Dig out beds and fill with topsoil
- Plant up beds with suitable plants
- Plaster wall
- Supply, spread and compact 25mm layer of 14mm Ballylusk gravel chippings to finish driveway
- Re-point capping on wall
- Install low voltage lighting from the Hunza range
Back:
- Spray lawn and beds with translocated herbicide
- Supply and lay armoured cable for garden lighting
- Remove unwanted plants front/back and over hanging branches from neighbour, cart to dump
- Remove gravel and geotextile from existing beds and dump
- Repair section of wall
- Plaster walls and shed with waterproof cement render
- Supply and install retainer for raised seating areas using cement rendered 4” solids
- Supply, spread and compact quarry screenings to make up levels for paving
- Supply and install raised seating areas and step using Egyptian limestone slabs laid on bed of mortar treated with waterproofer
- Seal slabs before pointing
- Treat Egyptian patio for efflorescence
- Seal slabs after pointing
- Supply and install 1.2M hit & miss wall extension around garden using 4×1” pressure treated Scandinavian Spruce, paint with Ronseal range
- Supply and install edging for lawn using 200x100x50 Portugeuse granite cobbles
- Supply and spread 25mm layer of screened topsoil over existing lawn for new turf
- Supply and install instant roll out lawn
- Plant up beds with suitable trees, shrubs and perennials
- Mulch beds front and back with 50mm layer of Greenking soil conditioner including geotextile liner to reduce maintenance
- Supply and install dividing frame with door, paint with Ronseal range
- Supply and install new door and window to shed
- Supply and install new door to boiler house
- Fill gaps in roof of shed
- Supply 10 litres of cleaner
- Paint walls front, back and side with two coats of paint
- Replace downpipe and shoulder and set up water butt and pump
- Supply and install trellis wire front and back and train plants
- Replace fascia, gutter and downpipe on shed
- Supply box for gas bottle
- Re-paint wall extension and supply paint
- Supply and plant suitable shrubs and perennials
- Supply and install synthetic grass to roof of shed
- Install low voltage lighting system from the Hunza range
- Remove all rubbish and cart to dump
The client was very happy with her award and garden. If you require a landscaping expert to build or enhance your garden, please give me a call on 086 8198444.
