Whether you've recently moved to a new house and the garden is over grown or an existing garden needs redesigning, reputable Brighton garden services firms can provide the solution. We have the established gardeners you need with the garden design skills to transform exterior areas or provide garden maintenance services including hedge trimming and lawn restoration. Structures can be included in garden designs, such as pergolas or rustic wooden archways, stone statues or ornaments like sun dials and bird baths, or storage sheds, greenhouses and summer houses.
At properties where children regularly visit, having a garden that is child friendly will probably be important. Quality gardening companies in Brighton will structure designs for gardens around this element, whether a separate area for playing is needed or erection of climbing frames and swings, or pathways that are non slip and easy to navigate to make slipping and tripping less likely. Gardens can be fitted with fencing around borders so children remain inside garden areas and water features or garden ponds can be covered so outdoors, children are not at risk from water features.
It can be effective to incorporate water into your garden, whether you'd like a pond digging to house goldfish or koi carp, or you want the sound of water from a fountain and pump. You can choose from many water feature types, from liners and containers that can be sunken, to metal, moulded stone or natural slate monoliths giving bubbling, trickling or cascading water. Free standing water features can be best for patios, however stately gardens of period properties can encompass more extravagant water features, like stone animals or figures spouting water and collecting in pools of troughs. Brighton expert gardeners can design water features acting as centre pieces in gardens.
Gardens nearly always have flower beds, whatever size outdoor area properties have, or if gardens concerned are at the back or front of homes. Borders can be stocked with many plant types so foliage and flower colours and textures can be varied and additionally providing food if in a herb or veg garden. Experienced Brighton garden services companies can create designs for colour schemes and companion planting to enhance the exterior of your home, whether wildlife gardening is your priority, a winter garden with colourful leaves and barks in cold months, or flowers and colour year round. If you need low maintenance planting options, hardy shrubs and perennials can be planted, or specimen tree planting to provide focal points.
Decking is often laid to provide a garden feature which offers space for seating and looks good. Decking is often laid in entertaining areas of gardens by homeowners, and position garden tables and chairs on it. Bedding plants in troughs or pots can add colour. Built in wooden containers are another alternative which can be incorporated into decking edges, or erecting wooden pergolas around decked areas so plants can be grown over decking area or wooden posts can have brackets and hanging baskets hung on them. Decking can have wooden balustrades and handrails, with various spindle designs on offer and matching gates can also be built in. Various wood styles and types are also on offer, and tanalised timber can be chosen to prevent wood rotting, or wood preservative can be used to treat surfaces.
Increasing popularity is being seen for wildlife gardening, with more people choosing to incorporate wildlife attracting features. This includes species of plants that appeal to wildlife by increasing the availability of natural food sources, i.e. flowers rich in nectar that attract butterflies and winter food sources for birds in flower seed heads. Garden ponds can be a key part of a wildlife garden, offering toads, newts and frogs a home and giving bees the water they need to make honey. Corners left to be wilder can be excellent additions, providing natural habitats for beneficial insects or field mice and hedgehogs. Natural solutions for pests in your garden can also be provided, through predatory insect encouragement like lacewings.
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