Local Landscapers Adelaide Western Suburbs Landscaping Western Suburbs Of Adelaide.
If you’ve decided it’s time to renovate your front or backyard living west of Adelaide 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 western suburbs spanning more than 35 years.
Low maintenance landscaping with the use of native plants is becoming increasingly popular out west and along the coast, as is the use of natural products such as hardwood timber for decking, instant lawn for grass, stone 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 western suburb residents searching for landscapers Adelaide Western Suburbs 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 within garden renovations when landscaping the western suburbs of Adelaide.
Paving Adelaide Western Suburbs
With a range of soil conditions to contend with ranging from sandy soils to highly reactive clay soil and 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.
While always competitive on price, paving contractors from Hand Made Gardens will never cut corners to match a price.
The quality of paving Adelaide western suburb residents deserve to receive means excavation to the required depth dependant on the soil conditions, followed by compacted quarry rubble then compacted quarry sand before laying the pavers.
The licensed, local paving contractors Adelaide western suburb residents engage from Hand Made Gardens have over 35 years experience laying pavers, familiar with all the popular paving patterns and custom designs are welcome if you have an idea of something special.
Paving and landscaping Adelaide south gardens is often incorporated together with planted garden beds as a border.
Whether under a verandah, laid as a path meandering throughout your garden or surrounding your pool, there’s a huge range of pavers Adelaide western suburb home owners can choose from.
Retaining Walls Adelaide Western Suburbs
Many of the gardens throughout the western suburbs of Adelaide, close to the coast are on sloping blocks. To create more useable space, especially for the backyard, a wall is constructed to hold back the soil creating two level areas.
There are many materials and colours to choose from and most often the choice comes down to the gardens theme or style, matching the house.
The most popular retaining walls Adelaide western suburb residents choose are made using stone and rocks or concrete blocks and railway sleepers, which also works well with requests from people after low maintenance gardens.
Depending on the height, local retaining wall contractors Adelaide western suburb residents use from Hand Made Gardens handle any engineering requirements and council approvals if required, so you wont have to worry about a thing.
Again, depending on the height, the landscape design will specify a drainage system to be installed behind the wall to cater for water build up when it rains.
Garden Features Adelaide Western Suburbs
With all garden makeovers Adelaide western 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.
Often decorative, many garden features Adelaide western suburb home owners select can also be functional. A stunning paved path is a good example.
Then there are features you have in the garden that are not typically thought of to provide an element of interest but definitely can be, even raised planter boxes with paving when given some creative thought looks stunning.
With the number of licensed landscapers Adelaide western suburbs have 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 to create that dream garden you’ve always wanted and within your budget.
Instant Lawn Adelaide Western Suburbs
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.
Extremely drought tolerant, it’s tough with good repair qualities making it perfect for dogs and children to play on and because it also has resilience to shade, it keeps green during Winter, unlike Santa Anna that would yellow off.
When looking for natural grass, Male Sterile Kikuyu has become the number one instant lawn Adelaide south residents have laid.
One of the best low maintenance garden ideas is to eliminate mowing by setting up an automatic mower. 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 western suburbs 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 Western Suburbs
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 western suburb home owners have installed can cater for different areas, or zones as they’re commonly referred to with lines controlled by solenoids.
Each plant can have specific drippers added to make sure within a 30 minute period they receive the right amount of water they need.
Lawns can have pop up sprinkler systems installed, making sure all the lawn is covered evenly. All your watering programs are controlled at a panel where you can set each zones on and off time.
With Bluetooth technology, it’s also possible to control your watering system from your smart phone.
Irrigation installers Adelaide western suburb 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 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 Western Suburbs
Decks are often used to provide a level platform elevated off the ground when levelling the ground or raising the natural level isn’t possible or financially feasible.
Good quality hardwood timbers have natural charm and fit within just about every garden theme.
By far, the most popular hardwood timber decking Adelaide south home owners choose is Merbau followed by Spotted Gum for those preferring a lighter tone.
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 Western Suburbs
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.
Sometimes shade cloth can be added, a grape vine perhaps to add to the Mediterranean theme or by adding a trellis to the sides, your cottage garden theme with climbing roses is now complete.
Most verandas Adelaide south residents have built are made from timber, contrasting against the paved floor.
Paving under verandas, especially with an outdoor kitchen or BBQ goes hand in hand with each other, just as timber decking under pergolas.
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 western suburbs can help with, you should ask Martyn and the team for a quote.
Would You Like Your Garden Landscaped?
After a front or backyard renovation but don’t know where to start?
Ask Master Landscaper Martyn Hand, from Hand Made Gardens for help.
Maybe you’d like landscape designers to draw up hardscape construction plans and softscape design plans, knowing what your budget is to transform your current outdoor space into the dream garden you’ve always wanted.
Or, if you already have an idea of what you’d like for your garden makeover, the outdoor living spaces, garden features and elements you’d like to include, you may be ready to get a landscaping quote.
Since 1976, Hand Made Gardens have completed thousands of garden renovations across Adelaide Western suburbs and wider South Australia.
Landscaping Adelaide southern suburbs to Mount Compass, to Semaphore along the coast of Adelaide western suburbs, out to Dernancourt and the north eastern suburbs, all of Adelaide eastern suburbs and throughout the Adelaide Hills, Master Landscaper Martyn Hand and his team of licensed landscapers can make your dream garden a reality.
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