Turfing
We offer a full range of services from design and inspiration to land preparation, turfing and maintenance of your lawn.
Our client's garden is south facing, with the rear lawn getting sun all day. The overall project consisted of 700 square meters of turfing, as well as a Wildflower Meadow and numerous Wildflower Banks which we’ll cover in another article. We arrived on site as building works were continuing, and scheduled our works around the builders. The design of the lawn had two horseshoe stepped banks, which then ran all the way up the sloped garden to a pond situated at the back. The garden had been created with a coarse topsoil which had not yet settled, so when we first stepped onto it, your foot sunk a couple of inches in.
Denning Case Study ~ Turfing Spring 2025
With that in mind the first job was to roll the site and compress what we already had in order to get a firm starting point. We then brought 6 tons of compost in and started to shape the bank to get a lovely smooth flow to the curve and the graded tiers. We spent 3 days raking and rolling the entire site, using both our tractor pulled spring tine harrow, as well as hand rakes and graders. Once everything was flat, compressed and we’d removed a ton or so of stones from the topsoil! We then worked our way across the flat gradient of the lawn, before we started on the horseshoe stepped banks.
The banks were separated by a set of stone flagged steps, and on one side the two tiers blended into one. There were also covered water and electric inspection hatches that needed to be worked around and blended into the banks. Due to the gradient of the slope we used compostable lawn spikes to hold the turf into position until it rooted. We then took on the pond and cut in around the flag stones, and then came down through the orchard.
On completion, the client then extended the lawn, as on seeing the site in real life compared to their designer's drawings on paper, they felt like they could push it further. Which just goes to show, sometimes you need to see something in front of you before you can make a decision.
