Case study · Edinburgh

Laverockbank

A richly naturalistic garden where sandstone paving and a bespoke curved retaining wall, hand-cut coping stone by coping stone, frame a planting scheme that has settled beautifully into its surroundings.

Scope Build to your plans
Area Edinburgh
Year 2024
Investment £50–100k
The project

A richly naturalistic garden where sandstone paving and a bespoke curved retaining wall, hand-cut coping stone by coping stone, frame a planting scheme that has settled beautifully into its surroundings.

Delivered during a major property refurbishment, this project saw us meet the client on site and build the landscape to a design already prepared by Nick at Burton Hall Garden Design, working alongside the main contractor throughout.

The brief

With the design in place, the brief was pure execution: bringing a scheme with real structural ambition to life around an ongoing refurbishment, without disturbing what was already working.

The build

Sandstone paving runs throughout, alongside a retaining wall that wraps around one side of the property and a bespoke curved wall finished with hand-cut coping stones. A gravel driveway with planting to either side leads in, and a naturalistic planting scheme by Nick has matured beautifully in the years since. A large existing lawn was left untouched, exactly as it should be.

The coping stones were the hardest part of the build: sourcing oversized stones, marking them out, then cutting and buffing each one to shape. It took skilled, patient stonework to get the crisp finish the design demanded.

The result

Natural, mature, timeless — a garden that looks like it has always been there.

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