Garden Landscaping for homes in Mapperley
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 Mapperley
Mapperley sits on high ground on Nottingham's north-eastern side, and the elevation is the defining feature of working there. Properties along and off the ridge frequently have gardens that fall away steeply behind the house, which turns a straightforward-sounding patio into a terracing and retaining job if it is going to be done properly — level platforms cut and held, steps linking them, and drainage designed so water is taken away rather than allowed to build behind a wall. The area has a good stock of solid inter-war semis and detached houses with bay frontages, alongside Victorian villas on the older streets and later infill development. Bay-fronted properties reward a driveway design that works with the frontage rather than simply paving the whole thing flat to the boundary.
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