Garden Landscaping for homes in Derby
Landscaping is the job where all the individual trades meet: the levels, the retaining, the paved areas, the lawn or artificial grass, the borders and the routes between them. We take a garden as a whole rather than as a list of separate jobs, working out how the space should flow from the back door to the far end, where the levels need holding with walls or steps, where the seating and planting areas want to sit, and how the surfaces should change between them. Then we build it in the right order, so the heavy work and the muck away happen before the finished surfaces go down instead of over the top of them.
Working in Derby
Derby is a large city with a correspondingly wide spread of property types, and the work changes noticeably between them. The inner suburbs are dense Victorian terracing where frontages are small, on-street parking is under pressure and converting a front garden into a usable off-road space is one of the highest-value things you can do to a house. Further out through the suburban ring you find inter-war semis with long rear gardens that suit a full landscaping scheme — patio, lawn or artificial grass, defined borders and a path running the length. Newer developments on the city fringes tend to arrive with a small builder-standard patio and a bare lawn, which is the most common starting point we are asked to work from. Derby's ground varies across the city, so excavation depth and drainage are worked out per property rather than assumed.
What's included
- Whole-garden layout rather than isolated jobs
- Levels, retaining, steps and terracing
- Hard surfaces, borders and planting areas set out together
- Built in sequence so finished work is not damaged