Decking & Sleepers

Decking continues to be a popular choice for garden landscapers and opens up a host of possibilities for adding new areas or rooms to a garden, or the ability to revitalise an old paved area. The traditional garden deck is usually sited as an extension from the house, providing a transition between indoors and out, however standalone decks within the garden are becoming increasingly popular, w...

Railway sleepers continue to be a popular choice for landscaping projects, as these wooden slabs are cost-effective, versatile, durable and suit both rustic and modern settings. They have a variety of uses in the garden including raised beds, retaining walls, lawn edging, steps, even garden furniture. Sleepers provide a fantastic way to create striking, eye catching landscape design feature...

Raised beds constructed from railway sleepers are a great way to introduce additional growing areas to your garden, and have several applications: Dividing a garden area, such as creating a decorative edging wall to a garden area or patio – raised beds can be laid directly onto a hard surfaceCreation of different visual planting heights in your gardenImproved accessibility to the bed by g...

The installation of geotextile membrane is one approach you can rely on when it comes to the ongoing battle against weeds. Weeds can thrive beneath garden decking, often with plenty of room to grow and really take hold. You can try to deal with this at deck level, pulling out the portion of the weeds that finds a way out between the timber boards, but in the long term you’ll be fighting a losi...