Local Landscapers Adelaide Hills (Landscaping Adelaide Hills Suburbs Of SA).

If you’ve decided it’s time to renovate your front or backyard living throughout the Adelaide Hills with professional landscaping, perhaps with some of the low maintenance landscape design ideas you’ve seen on our website, the local landscapers from Hand Made Gardens have a proud history of landscaping Adelaide’s hill side suburbs spanning more than 35 years.

Low maintenance landscaping with the use of native plants has always been popular across the hills, as is the use of natural products such as hardwood timber for decking, instant lawn for grass, rock used to construct retaining walls and steel used for many garden design elements including statues, wall art and fire pits.

Complete garden makeovers are a specialty of Hand Made Gardens, led by Master Landscaper Martyn Hand (MLSA). Because of the extensive range of landscaping services offered to residents searching for landscapers Adelaide Hills for their front or backyard garden renovation, they can deal with just one business from the initial landscape design plans through to construction.

Read on to learn about the core services professional landscapers from Hand Made Gardens are often asked to integrate for garden renovations when landscaping the hills side suburbs.

Paving Adelaide Hills

With a range of soil conditions to contend with ranging highly reactive clay soil to large amounts of rock, before laying pavers the appropriate base must be prepared. This is often an area many ute & wheelbarrow gardeners skimp on making their quote cheaper.

The licensed, local paving contractors Adelaide Hills residents engage from Hand Made Gardens have over 35 years experience laying pavers, familiar with all the popular paving patterns, custom designs are welcome if you have an idea of something special.

Paving and landscaping Adelaide Hills gardens is often incorporated together with garden beds planted out as a border.
Whether under a verandah, laid as a path meandering throughout your garden or around your pool, there’s a huge range of pavers Adelaide Hills home owners can choose from.

Retaining Walls Adelaide Hills

Naturally, many of the gardens across the hill side suburbs of Adelaide are on sloping blocks, with many on a severe slope. To create more useable space, especially for the backyard, a wall must be constructed to hold back the soil to create two level areas. Multiple splits with steps may be required depending on the severity of the slope and the length of the area.

Depending on the height, local retaining wall contractors Adelaide Hills residents use from Hand Made Gardens handle all engineering requirements and council approvals if required, so you wont have to worry about a thing.
Again, depending on the height, the landscape design hardscape construction plans will specify a drainage system to be installed behind the wall to cater for water build up when it rains.

Garden Features Adelaide Hills

With all garden makeovers Adelaide Hill side suburb residents request, structural elements are included as a focal point or feature. Limited only by your imagination, there are statues, pots, urns and bird baths available in all shapes, sizes and colours to suit any budget. You could look at having an element custom made, designed to suit your gardens theme.

With the number of licensed landscapers Adelaide Hills residents can reliably use decreasing, Hand Made Gardens has grown to offer a holistic, one-stop-shop range of landscaping services.
Whether you’re starting with a blank slate, after a backyard renovation or complete garden makeovers to both your front and back, the landscape design service can help you come up with a plan that works within your budget.

Having over 35 years experience, landscape designers can come up with garden design solutions for any block to create that dream garden you’ve always wanted and work within your budget.

Instant Lawn Adelaide Hills

Nothing beats the feel of natural turf, especially on bare feet. Mention lawn to people wanting low maintenance gardens and they immediately tense up with the thought of having to weed, water, mow and fertilise. While that used to be the case with most grasses popular years ago, there are new species available these days that are very low maintenance indeed.
One example is Male Sterile Kikuyu, that comes as an instant roll out lawn.

One of the best low maintenance garden ideas is to eliminate mowing by setting up an automatic mower. From experience, Master Landscaper Martyn Hand recommends two brands, Stihl and Husqvanas.
Both have a number of models catering to the size and slope of your lawn. They charge themselves when required and because they only take a few mm off at a time, fertilise your instant lawn at the same time.

Automatic irrigation systems Adelaide Hills residents have installed take all the time and guess work out of watering your lovely grass. You’ll never need to pull out and move the sprinkler, but perhaps best of all, you wont have to remember to water.

Irrigation Systems Adelaide Hills

Watering plants and lawn is something that is required to keep them alive, obviously more so during Adelaide’s Summer months.
Water is a valuable resource often wasted and is becoming more expensive every year. Instead of hand watering your garden beds with a hose, and moving the sprinkler to different positions every 20 minutes during ad breaks, there is a way to water your garden efficiently and cost effectively by installing an irrigation system that’s automated.

Automatic irrigation systems Adelaide Hills home owners have installed can cater for different areas, or zones as they’re commonly referred to with lines controlled by solenoids.

With Bluetooth technology, it’s also possible to control your watering system from your smart phone.

Irrigation installers Adelaide Hills residents use from Hand Made Gardens are licensed and experienced with the latest water saving technologies that will save you time, money and keep your plants and lawn healthy too.

Before installing plants and a watering system, the soil should be improved by digging in a good quality organic compost and sand mixture, especially if there’s a lot of clay, rock and roots underground that has depleted the soils nutritional content.
After conditioning the soil, planting and installing the irrigation system, a thick organic mulch laid over the top will minimise evaporation and retard weed growth too.

Timber Decking Adelaide Hills

Decks are often used to provide a level platform elevated off the ground to take in the views, when levelling the ground or raising the natural level isn’t possible or financially feasible.

Timber deck builders from Hand Made Gardens are licensed and with over 35 years experience recommend using hardwood timbers as opposed to softwoods.
Hardwood timber decks are more durable and will last longer compared to the treated pine softwoods full of knots.

Sealing timber decking with a good quality oil is also highly recommended and should be repeated yearly to keep the wood in good condition.
Combined with matching privacy screens you can create beautiful looking outdoor living areas, great for entertaining.

Pergolas & Verandas Adelaide Hills

To keep the party going outside for as long as possible, throughout the whole year a verandah with solid roof is the perfect solution.
Often attached to the house with polycarbonate roofing to let light through while blocking out some of the Sun’s heat, they also provide protection from the rain.

Typically placed away from the house, a pergola doesn’t have a solid roof but can provide some shade protection.

Paving under verandas, especially with an outdoor kitchen or BBQ goes hand in hand with each other, just as opening the inside of your home to the outside with large sliding doors.
It all depends on your preference and the theme you’re wanting to create.

With more than 35 years landscape design experience, Master Landscaper Martyn Hand is well placed to help you with garden design ideas and planning out your dream garden.
And why if you’re looking for professional landscapers Adelaide Hills you should ask Martyn and the team for a quote.

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