Garden Construction
ALDA Landscapes has been an accredited resin installer since 2018, installing resin driveways, paths and surfaces across Reading, Newbury and the wider Berkshire area. Resin is an ideal and increasingly…
Ideas, Inspiration & Trends
Making the most out of the space available in a garden is a key component to a great design. Often manipulating the angle of the main focal lines within a…
Garden Construction
It is all too easy to neglect our front garden in favour of the space at the back of our house. However, we are noticing a growing trend – clients…
Ideas, Inspiration & Trends
Update 9/12/2019: See new photos showing the newly laid lawn below. Things are taking shape at our recent design project in Earley, with the construction of this long curved built-in…
Garden Construction
Granite paving and circular patio areas have transformed a recent ALDA Landscapes project in Woolton Hill! Our client’s brief for our designer Katie Thomas was to create better access from…
Ideas, Inspiration & Trends
We have noticed a real trend over the last 2 years for using porcelain tiles in our clients’ gardens. So much so that this month we have invested in a…
Garden Construction
A Victorian look black and white tiled path transforms a front garden in Reading… The problem An uneven and tired-looking path, which is not in keeping with our client’s Victorian…
Garden Construction
We are now an accredited installer of resin products from the The Resin Mill and recently used it on a driveway in a front garden in Newbury. Our client’s requirement was…
Garden Construction
Following on from last month’s blog, it’s time to share with you our progress and new developments at the sunken garden in Reading… all the hard (& hot) work has…
Advice
Wherever there is a change of level in a garden, some form of step(s) or ramp is required. Garden steps present designers with plenty of opportunities to make bold statements…
Ideas, Inspiration & Trends
This month in Caversham (in some of the hottest temperatures this year!) we have been constructing a sunken garden at our client’s property. Sunken gardens are a design concept we…
Garden Construction
If you are looking to create a garden with a contemporary feel, take a good look at these grey oblong shaped porcelain paving slabs – used here in one of…
Patios
Where: Farley Hill, Reading When: October 2017 What: ALDA Landscapes installed a black tumbled Sandstone paving known as ‘Sagar’. It was laid over a large area incorporating the area directly…
Patios
What a transformation and it’s all down to a new landscaping design!…. This was the case at a converted old pump house in Wargrave last month, where the ALDA team…
Garden Construction
Following on from last month’s blog, things have definitely improved from those first steps of clearing our client’s garden of 36 tonnes of concrete paving! Back then we were working…