Hertfordshire
Landscape gardeners in St Albans
Three published gardens: Guilder, Mason and Readshaw. Patios, curves, and one we still maintain.
St Albans is where the portfolio is thickest. Wendy Guilder’s garden has a circular sitting terrace, curved paths and stepping stones. Mr Mason’s plot was a small patio and a half-dead lawn, rebuilt with sandstone, new fences, block edging, a deck and fresh turf, and it is now maintained every month. The Readshaws’ garden steps up from a conservatory patio into circles of lawn, planting and gravel.
Rear gardens in the city are often long and surprisingly private. They suit a layout with a place to sit by the house and a simpler area further down, rather than one idea stretched eighty feet. Soil on the older plots can be poor after years of use; on the Mason garden, seeding topsoil was brought in before the turf went down.
Clay gives way towards chalk as you move through the district, so planting and lawn prep are judged on the garden in front of us, not on a county-wide recipe. St Albans City and District Council is the authority for tree preservation orders and conservation areas.
Services in St Albans
Work in and around St Albans
Wendy Guilder’s back garden
A St Albans sitting terrace with a circular patio, curved paths and a raised bed behind a brick wall.
John Mason’s garden
A St Albans plot with a tired patio and half-dead lawn, rebuilt and then maintained each month.
The Readshaws’ rear garden
A tired St Albans lawn remade as circles of patio, grass, planting and gravel.