Water Gems have recently completed the construction of a new pond at Rosewell, next to the Dalkeith to Penicuik cycle path. We started working on this new pond in January and we are delighted that it is now finished. We are looking forward to seeing...
In the winter of 2019, Stuart and the team built this stunning wildlife pond on an estate in Perthshire. It sits within the beautiful garden, designed by Carolyn Grohmann of Secret Gardens Design, alongside a new build house designed by Lorn Macneal Architects' Sula McEwan. The pond...
From mudbath to curving boardwalk and wetland – the Bearsden project is just about finished. These were pretty rough conditions for the guys building the boardwalk and wetland system for Balfour Beatty over in Bearsden. We needed our big wellies to work on this one! The biggest...
We've really enjoyed working on this project at Hailes Quarry Park in Edinburgh. Here's Nick Easterbrook, Hubert and Stephen putting the finishing touches to the boardwalk and wetland. It looks a bit of a mud bath just now but once all the big wetland plants go...
This is the Oxgangs SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage System) pool that we look after, which takes the water from the roofs and roads around it. Now, a few years on from when we planted it, it has turned into a proper wetland area. We look after...
The above photo is of Nick standing in the boating lake in Rosyth during the launch of the new wetland and boardwalk project, that we designed and planted up. The picture Nick is holding shows how the pond was used many years ago, as a...
Rosyth boating lake was a bleak, shallow concrete pool which was drained most of the time. See the photo which looks more like a car park than a boating lake! We designed the wetland and boardwalk and planted it up. Although, on an early February...
Beautiful morning in Ormiston, East Lothian where we've been working for the local Countryside Ranger service. We have been working to dig out and clean up a pond that was badly silted up. We've also cleared out some of the trees to help give better access...
Gifford monk - not the fat jolly kind with the funny haircut, but the concrete pond outlet kind. A monk is a very old design for a pond outlet structure. It is believed to be so named because abbeys were the first places to keep fish...
Water Gems have been installing a Firestone EPDM liner in a pond near Stirling. The guys have been persevering to finish lining this big pool. There's been lots of tricky details to do and the team has had to cope with a certain amount of unhelpful...