Village gardens and estate gardens, both done properly.
Spondon keeps its village feel even though the city has grown around it, and the gardens reflect that. Older houses around the church with mature plots and established planting, then estate housing spreading out towards Locko Road and Oakwood with tighter, squarer gardens.
We work across this whole side of Derby, so Spondon, Chaddesden, Oakwood, Borrowash and Ockbrook are all a few minutes from base.
The mature gardens around the village core do not suit a hard, uniform slab. Natural Indian sandstone laid in a random pattern settles into an established garden far better, and it weathers rather than staining.
On the newer estate houses the opposite is true. Porcelain in a clean grey looks right against modern brick and doors, and it stays looking the same year after year with almost no work.
A lot of Spondon estate gardens are a rectangle of lawn with a strip of paving by the back door. The quickest win is usually to stop treating the patio as an afterthought: build it big enough for a table and chairs with room to walk behind them, then use a path, a step or a change of material to break the rest of the garden into areas.
Sleeper beds along one boundary and a gravel or planted border do more for a plain rectangle than any amount of expensive paving.
We handle patios, paths, steps, retaining walls, sleeper raised beds, brickwork, turf and artificial grass in house, so a full makeover is one team and one price rather than three trades and a lot of chasing.
A recent patio and path job on this side of the city is featured below. It is a good example of tying a garden together instead of stopping at the slabs.
Indian sandstone, porcelain, block paving and decking.
Complete transformations from design to delivery.
Premium artificial turf and natural lawn installation.
Raised beds, borders, steps and timber features.
Walls, raised planters, steps and feature brickwork.
We work throughout Spondon and the surrounding Derby villages, including:
Anything else you want to know? Get in touch and we'll be happy to help.
Bigger than most people first ask for. A table and six chairs needs room to pull the chairs out and walk behind them, which is a lot more than the strip most houses come with. We mark it out on the ground at the quote visit so you can see the size rather than guess from a number.
Yes, all of them, plus Ockbrook, Breadsall and out towards Draycott. This is home turf, minutes from base, so there is no travel added to the quote.
Yes, and doing both together usually works out better. The levels have to be set once, the spoil goes out in one lot, and the lawn meets the paving properly instead of sitting proud of it. We lay real turf and premium artificial grass, and we will tell you honestly which suits your garden and how you use it.
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