By Susan Wood|2021-07-14T17:38:48+01:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
You can have both a child friendly garden and adult friendly garden at the same time with GardensRUs. When children come into our lives, the garden that was a peaceful and relaxing haven becomes a place for ballgames, cycling, den making and mud pits, and the garden can become an area more for the [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-07-14T17:10:58+01:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
If you are looking to put some colour into your borders, we can recommend two beautiful plants that will flourish year after year. Lavatera Ruby Star is a semi evergreen shrub with vibrant pink flowers. Lavatera works well at the back of borders as it can grow [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-07-14T16:44:47+01:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Design, Uncategorised|
We recently completed a garden makeover on behalf of a Client. The makeover included both a patio and pathway. We would like to thank our Client for sending these photographs in to us and we would like to say that we are very pleased to have been of assistance. We hope our client enjoys many sun [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-06-16T12:16:32+01:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Sometimes our gardens can feel overwhelming. Curveballs happen in life and we may find that for a whole variety of reasons, we do not have the time to look after the garden in the way we would like, and that the garden that was originally to be our dream garden becomes a major stressor in [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-06-16T11:55:05+01:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Growing your own vegetables and fruit is a fabulous and very satisfying thing to do and which is a great activity for all the family to get involved in. There is still time in the season to do this. We find that children enjoy growing tomatoes and love picking the juicy red tomatoes directly off [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-05-26T14:04:37+01:00May 26th, 2021|Categories: Garden Maintenance, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Its a great time to plant vegetable plants and flowers directly into the ground without any cold weather protection. Please do visit our online shop or our Garden Centre which is in the Car Park of Five Sisters' Zoo (no entry to the Zoo required) which is open from 10.00am to 5.00pm every day of the [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-06-08T13:12:22+01:00May 26th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
Creating a child friendly garden can be very important, especially if the children are very young. Having an uncluttered soft bouncy lawn edged with soft shrubs such as Santolina, Ribes, Wiegela, Rosemary, Philadelphus, getting rid of any split canes or spiky plant supports, having a lockup shed, and filling in ponds (even shallow ones) will [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-05-26T14:00:12+01:00May 26th, 2021|Categories: Garden Maintenance, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
GardensRUs have a new specialist service which includes all elements of arboricultural work. We undertake hedge trimming and removal and tree pruning, felling and removal, whether a single or multiple job. All our staff are fully qualified and professional tree surgeons. Please contact us for a free no obligation quote however small, big or complicated the [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-05-13T13:49:18+01:00May 13th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|
If you feel that your garden or yard space is too small to grow fruit then please do give us a call to discuss. There are many ways in which fruit trees can be grown and we are here to help. Fruit trees can be trained against most walls or fencing or they can be supported [...]
By Susan Wood|2021-05-13T13:49:38+01:00May 13th, 2021|Categories: Design, Gardener's advices, Uncategorised|Tags: five sisters zoo, fsz, gardensrus, Hydrangea, hydrangea flower, music collection, scotland, West Lothian|
With their showy flowers, Hydrangeas have an old fashioned charm about them. Although they are low maintenance plants, if they have the proper care they will reward us with many blooms in the Summer months. Hydrangeas enjoy morning sun and afternoon shade. They also enjoy being planted in a slightly acidic soil which should be [...]
