ABOUT US
If you’re reading here, it means you want to find out if we are the right company for you. I could start listing all our skills and that we do landscaping not like the other companies do. I could tell you that we have more than 30 years of experience in the industry, that we undertake any kind of project, and that we have a sound horticultural studies background. Or that we made our experience working in three different countries on two different continents, managing projects costing up to 1 million pounds.
I leave all this to the other companies. What I want to tell you is that we are passionate about our job. We love it! Well, most of it. When we go home in the evening, we want to leave something behind us that we are proud of.
Most of our operatives come from backgrounds different from horticulture because we value the right mindset more than experience. We can teach a skill, and an operative can acquire experience, but the right mindset is something a person has or will never get. A can-do attitude is the foundation of our success, and any of our operatives will never tell you, “It’s not my job”.
Philosophy
It takes 100 years’ time to create the top-soil, the first layer of soil where roots of plants and most of the micro-organisms leave. Its balance is paramount to life’s thriving but it’s easy to be destroyed. This is why we at Softscape Gardens Ltd promote designing and landscaping to be the least intrusive possible.
Since any garden is a unique ecosystem, we always prefer working with what is already on site. As far as it is possible we improve the existing soil instead of replacing it, reduce the impact of hard-landscaping to the minimum, limit the use of chemicals, and do not alter the order the elements of the garden have in nature.
This approach may not yield the most immediate outcome, but it evolves in a very long-lasting final result of easier upkeeping. It also minimise the impact work have on the environment, lower pollutions, and, last but not least, reduces the total cost of building the garden.
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WHAT WE DO
Soft Landscaping
Hard Landscaping
Resin bound surfaces SuDS compliant
Soil management drainage and improvement SuDS compliant
Maintenance
Permaculture
Garden restoration
Irrigation systems
Turfing
Fencing
Consultancy
Plant selection and budget optimisation
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Countryside garden in Norfolk
The 600 square meters of a new built bungalow in the heart of the Brekland recently completed. A big faux flag stone patio, taking half of the front of the building, linked the house to the garden stretching out on to the lawn. The garden is in a small village, divided from the main road by another property and facing a field left at fallow.
New-build in Cambridge
A terraced new-built family house in a central area of Cambridge with a small, square garden enclosed by the house and the garage, visible through the broad glass wall and only access to the garage via a concrete slabs path running in front of the house and along a fence.
Terraced house in Cambridge
A terraced house in a busy area of Cambridge with a small back garden of only 30 square meters sank to the basement level and shaded by the house and a very tall brick wall dividing the garden from the next-door garden. The only access to the garden was through the house and then the basement.