Elderslie – dry stone garden

This was a small job landscaping in Elderslie, Renfrewshire adding dry stone to this garden.  It was a mostly straight-forward job, done in two phases in September and November. There were some weather issues making for type 2 working fun!

The orginal garden

The clients had spent quite a bit of effort on modelling their back garden, particularly the new lawn.  They wanted to have a low dry stone retaining wall to enclose the grass in their garden with some chunky steps.  Then there was a small section of gravel and paving that had been “temporarily” laid – he liked it, she didn’t.  So it had to get a redo too.

The rebuilt dry stone garden

The garden was landscaped using Alston stone to create a low retaining wall with flat cap stones.  Two curved sections of edging were laid to create borders and a path into the shed area and “crazy” paving with gravel was laid.  Finally a chunky set of steps gave access to the lawn.

All materials were supplied by Border Aggregates in Kelso and CED Stone Scotland in North Lanarkshire.

You can see more examples of my dry stone walling work on the projects page.