Stratford landscaping project update…

Another beautiful day. A few more of these and I might start to believe that the winter from hell is finally over.

Our Chipping Campden project is pretty much wrapped up. Alison Heitmann, the designer, has been busy planting the garden over the weekend so I’ll get over and take some photographs in the next few days.

It also means that all of our attention can go onto the Stratford project which has been designed by Sally Hopkinson. This is a reasonably straight forward build comprising York stone paving around a swimming pool (the paving that arrived yesterday) and a large area of Breedon gravel with York sett edges. There’s also a flight of steps and some other details to attend to.

The site threw a new challenge at us in the guise of removal of a large iron balcony and staircases. At first glance you’d think this would be very interesting for a salvage yard and I was hopeful that we could get it removed for nothing. Not so. Not one of the local guys we approached was prepared to touch it so in the end we had to pay to have it removed. Once it was down a friend of the clients decided to take it on. Good luck!

We’re only just beyond the groundworks stage with this one. The dig is finished and the hardcore is in and some of the sett edging is now down.

I was able to photograph progress on Friday and here’s a small gallery of the going so far with a few ‘befores’ and ‘durings’…