News

28.04.14
SPRING IS IN THE AIR!

Our garden project at Levens in the South Lakes is now complete and looking fabulous with fantastic vibrant colours of tulips against the limestone walls. The House is integrated into a hillside with step embankments and terraces with a southerly aspect commanding wonderful...

06.03.14
NATURAL PONDS ARTICLE 1e: PATHWAYS AND EDGING FOR INFORMAL PONDS

Ideas for pathways and edging for informal ponds:

Boardwalks
Board walks are great to create elevated pathways over marsh areas that have a fluctuating water levee. This allows access without disturbing wildlife habitats and also creates a natural effect using...

06.03.14
NATURAL PONDS ARTICLE 1d: TOP TIPS FOR MARGINAL AND AQUATIC PLANTING FOR WILDLIFE

Provide for a range of aquatic plants that give wildlife such as frogs and newts both shelter and a place to rest, a place for aquatic larvae to grow into small flies that attract bats and dragonflies and also to oxygenate the pond.

Marginal plants provide larvae food...

06.03.14
NATURAL PONDS ARTICLE 1c: POND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

What to consider when designing a natural pond:

Location-It is important to consider the location of the pond for both practical and aesthetic reasons. For aesthetic reasons you may want to consider the view from the house, seating areas and the reflection of light...

06.03.14
NATURAL PONDS ARTLE 1b: CREATING A RESERVOIR FROM AN EXISTING STREAM

Creating a reservoir

The images below show a project that we recently completed at Hilltop near Ulverston. An existing stream was widened and dug out to a depth of about 1meter and lined using the method described above. The newly created pond was then dammed using a...

06.03.14
NATURAL PONDS ARTICLE 1a: CREATING A LARGE NATURAL POND

Tapping into an existing water table

These garden lakes and ponds near Broughton in Furness were created over a number of years. The first pond was created by us in 2006 while the latest was created in 2013. They established quickly over a few months and continue to...

06.03.14
DESIGN ELEMENTS-WATERFEATURES

At Chris Rabone Landscapes we pride ourselves in high quality design and an eye for detail.
We are launching monthly feature articles on a range of design elements to include advise and inspiration for your garden. Design articles will include paving, walling and steps...

18.02.14
DESIGN FEATURES

We will be launching monthly feature articles on a range of design elements to include advise and inspiration for your garden. Design articles will include paving, walling and steps, garden furniture, rockeries ans timber structures. The first of the series will be on water...

17.02.14
Stormy weather

We trust your Cumbrian gardens have survived the recent high winds and rainfall! Our maintenance crew have been busy tidying up fallen branches. Please give us a call if you need advise on tree work that may need carrying out.

We visited the competition winners in...

27.01.14
Spring is coming!

Congratulations to the runners up in the Cumbria Life Magazine garden design competition. We are offering 20% discount in garden design fees, all entrants will be receiving a letter in the post this week.

Snow drops are appearing in the Cumbrian gardens that we...

20.01.14
Garden Design Competition

Our competition that we launched for a free design service in the Cumbria Life Magazine was a success and we will be contacting the winner this week.

We are busy this week at a beautiful cumbrian garden building natural stone walls for a sunken seating area and...

15.01.14
Happy New year! We are looking forward to working on garden design & landscaping schemes in Cumbria & Lancashire in 2014!

We are currently designing a scheme near Dumfries for an award winning contemporary house which has a very steep hillside garden overlooking the Solway Firth and a beautiful old property in the countryside near Ulverston.

The landscaping team are busy working on a...

12.12.13
Accessible ramp and garden

The garden at Kirby-in-Furness is progressing well. We have completed all the earth works and and most of the stone walls using local slate. The accessible ramp has been shaped and is ready for pouring the concrete, this will have an exposed aggregate finish. Some of the...

19.11.13
Current projects

We are currently landscaping gardens in Kirby-in-Furness near Ulverston-in-Furness and also in Levens near Kendal, Cumbria. The gardens are in beautiful locations and have fantastic views to take advantage of. They both involve the creation of accessible walkways around the...

11.11.13
Town House in Windermere

This summer we completed the design and construction for a garden in the grounds of a beautiful Victorian building in Windermere. The area that required designing was part of a gravel parking area elevated about 10 metres above the ground floor of the house. It commands...

04.11.13
Garden maintenance tips for late autumn and winter

As the nights are drawing nearer and we have had the first frost of the year it is time to prepare the garden for the winter months ahead. These are a few of the jobs that our maintenance crew will be carrying out in the next few weeks.

Bulbs
Now is a good time...

29.10.13
Beautiful Country Estate on Windermere Lakeside

We have recently completed extensive landscaping in a large garden to create a fabulous setting for a newly built country house on the shore of Lake Windermere, near Ambleside. The landscaping involved a large amount of groundworks to reshape the existing site, pond &...

21.10.13
Holiday Cottage Garden and Planting near Penrith

Our recently completed gardens for Hilltop near Ulverston as featured in our last weeks news article will be widely covered in various magazines and newspaper articles. Also refer to Lakelovers (cottage reference number 1057) for further images of the outstanding gardens and...