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Gardening & Maintenance Services Inverness taking care of the garden, hedges and fences; building raised flower beds, creating gardens for new homes and garden maintenance in Inverness
Wildlife friendly gardens are becoming increasingly popular, with features that attract wildlife being incorporated more often. Plants that attract wildlife are often included, because of the natural source of food they provide, e.g. nectar rich flower species to attract bees, and winter food sources for birds in flower seed heads. Another key wildlife garden feature is a garden pond, enabling frogs to lay frog spawn 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 hedgehogs who can eat slugs. Garden pests can also be controlled naturally through predatory insect encouragement like lacewings.
Whether you've just moved house and have an overgrown garden or renovations of the exterior of your property are needed, reputable garden specialists in Inverness can assist you. We can source quality gardeners with the garden design skills to transform exterior areas or deliver expert garden maintenance like restoring lawns, cutting trees and trimming shrubs. 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 buildings for gardens such as sheds, summerhouses or workshops.
Flower beds are found in most gardens, however big or small your outdoor area, or whether the garden is at the front of back of a house. Lots of plant types can be planted in borders giving different colours, textures and heights or plants and additionally providing food if in a herb or veg garden. Established gardeners in Inverness can plan companion planting designs and colour schemes 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 schemes that give year round colour. For gardens that are easier to maintain, hardy shrubs and perennials can be planted, or creating focal points with specimen plants and trees.
Decking is commonly used to provide a garden feature which looks attractive and provides seating areas. A lot of gardens use decking in entertaining areas and stand barbecues and patio furniture on it. Troughs or planters can add colour from flowers too. Built in wooden containers are another alternative which can make up part of decking, or covering decked areas with pergolas 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 a range of spindle designs to select from and wooden gates matching the designs can be built in too. Various wood styles and types are also on offer, and rotting can be stopped with wood treatments like tanalisation, or surfaces can be painted with wood stain.
Water can be an attractive addition to gardens, whether you want a garden pond to hold fish or encourage wildlife, or be combined with a fountain and pump. Various water feature types can be selected between, from liners and containers that can be sunken, to slate or stone monoliths and ball fountains with different water effects, from trickles to cascades. Free standing water features can be best for patios, however stately gardens of period properties can encompass more extravagant water features, like fountains spouting from animals or stone statues gathering in pools or troughs below. Inverness expert gardeners can design water features to create garden centre pieces for your exterior area.
If you have children, a child friendly garden will likely be a priority. Expert Inverness gardeners can make sure this is a focus of garden designs drawn up, whether space to enable playing is desired or erection of climbing frames and swings, or incorporation of non slip pathways so tripping or slipping over can be avoided. Gardens can be fitted with fencing around borders so children remain inside garden areas and water features or garden ponds can be covered to reduce danger to children when outside.
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