Richard Birch Gardens

20/12/2024

Samples? We don’t need no stinking samples! Thank you to for the lovely card and the most useful thing a supplier has ever sent us. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025!

05/12/2023

It's been a quite a while since our last post but we sure have been busy - spending 16 weeks 😮 in Kilmacolm transforming essentially an asphalt car park into this - the frame of what will be an incredible entertainment space. It took 3 weeks battling bedrock just to get the utilities in. There is still a lot to do in the coming year - planting obviously, a new glass walled pergola and a garage kitchen conversion. I cannot wait to see this garden develop over the years. Will keep you posted!

21/07/2023

Change of pace today - helping out our maintenance crew in Dumbarton at one of only 4 houses to be bombed during the Clydebank Blitz in WWII. Not a bad view from the office at all!

13/07/2023

Our latest build in Strathbungo on the south side of Glasgow is finally ready for viewing. At our first meeting one word the client said stuck with me - meandering. That's where the path came from and everything else fed off that. Still a few accessories to go in to personalise it but all the hard work is done. As always - huge thanks to the crew - all the access issues, managing to move 2 established Acers & an Azalea without killing them🤞🏻 & the bloody weather meant the run in was a busy one - we finished it at 8pm! Also not helping was the portable toilet company not servicing their bog for 3 weeks! 🤢

Indian Sandstone patio - - in brown
Block path - Clocha - Rose
Storage - Store It out pro - 1200L

13/04/2023

21/03/2023

Happy Spring Birches! It’s so exciting to see colour popping out everywhere. Cannot wait to ditch the thermals! Coming soon - what we’ve been up to for the last 3 months. It’s amazing!

22/02/2023

Check it out - my hippeastrum is finally blooming. 6 trumpets for 6 quid. A quid a trumpet! You usually only get 4. Bargain!

26/01/2023

The porcelain tiles for our current garden build arrived today and they are gorgeous! 😍😍😍Looking forward to getting them laid over the next couple of weeks.

02/12/2022

Stand By For Action! New job - new toys! Back in Uddingston for a couple of months.

Now taking bookings for Summer ‘23.
Get in touch to make your gardening dreams come true.

18/10/2022

Introducing the drone footage of our Lanzarote inspired garden brought to you by CJW Media Paisley

After years of coming back from their Canary Island bolthole to a garden needing a lots of attention the client had had enough. So the brief was for very modern, as low maintenance as possible & with a 750mm stainless steel sphere as a focal point. Not a bad place to start!

It was an epic project. An 8 month design process then a 10 week build battling the elements & suppliers - at times we were not sure which was worse!

The entire garden was running the wrong way so in order to create the most even surface possible it had to be raised by nearly 200mm at the house. We had to install snorkel vents to ensure the house could still breath but to have minimal transitions throughout it was worth the extra 48 tons of type 1!

The porcelain tiles are Arrento in Grey & Silver.
The raised bed is clad in Stoneface Veneer Nero.
The composite deck is in Ebony & Antique with LEDs recessed into the border.
The spots & side lights are
The rocks are Firebird Gneiss from
The composite fencing frame was fabricated by the client with the boards and the water feature also supplied by the client.
It sits on an an island of black basalt & polished black Chinese cobbles.
The "lava" mulch is jet black

The planting was chosen to be as striking as possible, to bring some warmth from abroad and help soften the hard landscaping. A large Phormium Tenax Variegata sits in the corner flanked by Trachycarpus Wagnerian, Cordyline Australis 'Red Star', smaller varieties of Phormium & a Fatsia Japonica. In the raised bed are two Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' with a Yucca Rostrata 'Blue Swan' in the middle. In the bed at the house there are 3 Phormium Yellow Waves.

Despite their tropical appearance - all these plants are hardy down a minimum of -5° and a maximum of -15° so once established should last through many a Scottish winter!

Incredible work again by all my team.
Such high standards - our minimum standards - as always.
Thank you 🙌 👏 💪

15/10/2022

The Faerie Stone was hand carved and given to the client as a present. It was the starting point for the whole garden and responsible for the idea to build a water feature with the stone centre stage into the gap we found in the old Glenfield Scouring Works wall. The backing is Millboard Vintage Oak, the reservoir & blade Corten Steel and the stones Rainbow cobbles. It would be fair to say we are pretty please with it! 😁😁😁