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A lasting garden layout, starts which choosing the right landscaper for the job. Here is our guide on picking the right company for your outdoor area. 

Healthy grass needs sunlight, water and nutrients, with enough room in the soil for its roots to develop. Before you plant grass seed, it helps to understand what is limiting grass growth.

Your front garden is often the first part of your home people see. Whether someone is visiting or simply walking past, a well-kept garden can make the house feel welcoming before they reach the door.

October sits after the growing season has slowed but before the first proper frost locks the ground up, a window worth using for a handful of plants. These are common plants to care for this October to help your garden flourish next spring. 

When landscaping a garden, we plan the surfaces and planting together, with construction work usually completed before new planting goes in. This guide explains what each part involves, where ongoing maintenance fits in and what affects the cost.

By October the growing season across central Scotland is winding down, but the jobs in the garden are as busy as ever.  We look after gardens and grounds across Glasgow and Lanarkshire through every month of the year, here’s common tasks.

An apple tree left to its own devices doesn’t stop fruiting completely, but it does worsen as time increases. Pruning opens the canopy to light and air, keeps the tree a manageable size, and channels its energy into fewer, better apples rather than a tangle of unproductive growth.

Autumn trees create beautiful foliage. We plant and prune trees like this every week at GGM Landscaping, across gardens from Cambuslang to the wider Central Belt. Here is our advice to add to the scenery.

A lawn that dips near the fence or humps catches rainwater in the low spots, scalps under the mower on the high ones, and makes a patio or shed built on top sit slightly wrong. Flattening a garden helps solve these problems.

A garden that falls away from the house looks out over itself. Fortunately, there are many ideas to make sure of your downward sloping garden.

Landscaping your garden can add value to your home while giving you more reason to spend time outside. How much a landscaped garden could add depends on the property, its location and the work involved.

An outdoor living space is any part of the garden built for staying. For most gardens, that means a solid patio or deck as the base, something overhead for when it rains, and a reason to still be outside once the sun’s gone in. Here is inspiration to create the…

Screening, hedging, planting and structure are all valid privacy solutions, and which one works best to create privacy in your garden depends on the boundary, the budget and how quickly you need results. Here’s our guide to increasing privacy in your garden.

A tree in your garden can be dying without threatening anyone, and it can be perfectly healthy while carrying a structural fault that puts a limb over your driveway, because danger and health simply aren’t the same question.

A branch that’s cracked but still hanging in the canopy is more dangerous than one lying flat on the lawn. Wind, rain or its own weight can bring it down at any moment, and there’s often no warning before it lets go.

A tree surgeon spends most working days outdoors, climbing into a tree’s crown on ropes or working from the ground with a chainsaw, chipper and winch. Three routes lead into the trade: an apprenticeship, a college course, or direct entry through short courses, each with different qualifications behind it.

A fence panel’s height on the label tells you nothing about how it’s built. Closeboard, overlap, hit-and-miss, picket, slatted and decorative panels are the main garden fence types, and picking between them comes down to privacy, wind, noise and upkeep more than price.

In a compact back garden, the fence usually sits within a few metres of the back door and the patio, so the style, height and material carry more weight in that outdoor space than they would in a larger plot. Here are some small garden fence ideas for your space.

Tree surgery covers the practical work of keeping a tree alive, safe and structurally sound: pruning, felling, disease treatment and stump removal, each one chosen for what a specific tree needs.

Post caps, gravel boards, fixings and post supports rarely get a mention when you’re picking a new fence, yet a fence post rotting at ground level or a fixing rusting through is what we get called out to fix far more often than a fault in the panel itself.