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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.

Killing a tree is sometimes the sensible answer, whether it has outgrown its spot, its roots are heading towards your drains, or a stump keeps throwing up shoots. Below we cover the legal checks to make first, methods our arborists use, and how to stop a stump coming back.

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.

Scottish property law doesn’t use T-marks on a title plan, and it doesn’t hand you the fence on your left by default either. Working out which boundary fence belongs to you comes down to your title deeds instead.

A risk assessment in tree surgery is the process our arborists use to identify what could cause harm on a job, from overhead power lines and root damage to who else has access to the site, and to decide how to control each hazard before any cutting starts.

A garden fence runs the full length of the plot, so its colour and style sit behind every other feature in the garden: the planting, the patio, the shed. Choose one that clashes with those and the whole layout looks disjointed, even when everything else has been done well.

Your lawn still looks patchy even though you mow it every week, and a spongy green-brown layer is building up underneath the grass. Scarifying clears both away, but the timing matters as much as the technique. Learn more in our guide.

A garden bar can be as simple as a shelf fixed to a fence with two stools underneath, or as involved as a fully insulated cabin with its own bar top and shelving. Here is some inspiration.

Your garden’s soil is still warm from summer, even though the nights are drawing in. That warmth doesn’t last much beyond September in Central Scotland, so it’s worth using while it’s there. Here’s what’s worth planting this month.

The lawn still needs a cut, the roses are hanging on, and there might be a few tomatoes still ripening in the greenhouse. But the nights are drawing in fast, and the first frost isn’t far off. Here’s your ultimate guide to gardening in September.

September is a productive month if you’ve got a Scottish garden. What’s actually ready depends on whether it grew outdoors or needed a greenhouse to get there in the first place.