Early Years

Creative design and build projects for the education industry

• Established in 1976

• Family owned and operated

• In house project managers

• In house skilled craftsmen

• Financially stable with an excellent track record

• Strong environmental policy

• Committed to using sustainable sources and supply chain

• Health & safety accreditation with CHAS & ROSPA

• 10M public liability

Outstanding natural play and learning environments for early years

Our background..

There is certainly much to be learned in a garden. Come rain or shine, our creative and inspirational gardens will provide your children with a connection to nature all year round.

• Designs and visualisation

• Project management

• Planning applications and building control

• Structural design/calculations and drainage design

• Groundworks and construction

• Bespoke carpentry and timber constructions

• Specialists surfacing works including wetpour, rubber mulch, artificial grass, paving ,

resin bound gravel, imprint concrete, tarmac, etc…

• Landscaping and landscape construction

What can we do for you..

• Water play

• Sand play

• Mud play

• Activity trails

• Paths, roads and tracks

• Tunnels and mounds

• Dens

• Construction zone

• Role play cabins and play houses

• Gazebos

• Story time areas

• Growing areas

• Sensory gardens

• Blackboards, art boards and mirrors

• Minibeast areas

• Surfacing

• Sail shades and canopies

• Visuals, designs and completed projects

Contents..

Learning through play

Water play is one of the most relaxing and rewarding activities a child can experience. Water play also helps in other areas of a child's development. Water play is also a very important sensory play feature.

Our popular fresh water pump runs direct from the mains water supply and provides great potential for natural learning and imagination.

Many other water play options are also available. Please contact our sales team for more information.

Children have the opportunity to learn and understand the following :. Volume and the concepts of full, empty, shallow and

deep. Weight and the terms heavy and light. Buoyancy and the terms float, sink and submerge. Cleaning and the states of clean and dirty, dry and wet

and the concept of evaporation.

Water play

Bringing the beach to your nursery garden. Sand provides hours of fun and promotes and encourages imaginative play!

Sand is an amazing sensory experience for children to explore their sense of touch. They are able to play and discover the wonderful texture of sand!

Children love....

• digging holes

• digging tunnels • making sand castles • burying objects • hiding their feet!

Sand play

This marvellous outdoor play kitchen will provide children with hours of messy and imaginative play time fun . Mud provides a fantastic sensory experience. Mud comes in many forms and provides endless options for experimentation and discovery.

"Mud, mud, glorious mud“

Understanding the importance of our physical world is an essential part of a child's development.

Mud play

Mud box

Activity trails are the perfect way to get children outdoors and encourage physical development and coordination in an exciting, varied and challenging environment.

Bridge Triple balance beam and traverse wall

Stepping logs Single balance beam Mini picket gate

Stile and crawl through tyre

Our trails are individually tailored to suit your requirements and provide an adventurous challenge to all.

Activity trails

From smooth surfacing to wood decking, bricks or cobbles .... we can design wonderful pathways , roads and tracks to enhance your garden area. Children will have great fun riding their trikes and bikes around and will learn to develop safety and social skills in addition to the physical benefits .

Block paved and wet pour road tracks - favourite path surfaces in our garden projects.

Rustic block paved pathway

Textured/reclaimed paving

Paths, roads and tracks

Mounds to tumble down and tunnels to crawl through... young children love crawling through tunnels . Tunnels and mounds provide wonderful opportunities for creative play whilst enhancing your play area and providing natural looking hills.

There are so many great skills in addition to crawling that your child can learn from a play tunnel. Play tunnels are a great confidence builder......

.....and one of the best learning tools you could ever choose.

Tunnels and mounds

Den areas

A living willow den or tunnel can form a lovely leafy hideaway and shady play area for your children.

Our simple but effective den making zone comprises of machine round pressure treated timber poles which are concreted into the ground at varying heights. In addition we provide a robust camouflage net which can be draped over the poles to create a real hide away den.

Children will have hours of outdoor fun in our timber log cabin playhouses. They are ideal for creative play and will keep little ones entertained whilst encouraging imagination during playtime.

Is it a house?....

Is it a shop or restaurant? .....

Provide children with a fantastic environment in which they are able to play and learn.

Role play cabins and play houses

Let’s play builders!

Children love having their very own realistic building site. We build our construction zones using real bricks or blocks and top them off with smooth cement capping. A timber frame with orange safety mesh helps to create that work in progress look.

Work as part of a group, taking turns and co-operating. Interact with others, negotiating and discussing plans.

Construction zone

Constructed from machine round poles with rustic roofing boards, our gazebos are natural looking and hugely functional. Make full use of available outdoor space and provide a great environment for learning and teaching.

With a number of varieties available, our gazebos create a very useful and attractive sheltered area in the Garden.

Gazebos

Celebrate the Great Outdoors at Story time! The outdoor environment is a rich and natural space for learning and development . We can design wonderful story time areas to suit your requirements.

Wooden mushroom seats are placed around a story tellers chair, creating a cosy area for reading and learning.

Why not add character to your story time area with a wonderful storytellers chair. It creates the perfect finishing touch to an enchanting story time area.

Story time areas

Our polycarbonate greenhouse is a safe way of helping children learn about growing. The greenhouse is normally designed to go onto a solid level existing surface and securely fixed down accordingly. We also put down sleeper planters to create an area for the children to grow a wide variety of plants and learn about growing edible plants such as herbs and vegetables.

Growing areas

We carefully select from our safe sensory plant list to create the perfect sensory area.

Children learn about the world through their senses: touch, sight, sound, taste and smell. Creating safe, diverse and developmentally appropriate outdoor leaning environments can offer benefits across curriculum and developmental areas.

Children learn about their relationship with the natural world around them.

Sensory gardens

Children will love using our mirrors for role playing activities, spying on friends or simply pulling funny faces!

Why not brighten up your outdoor play areas by installing a collection of mirrors , art boards and chalkboards solidly constructed from sustainable materials. Children will have hours of outdoor artistic and creative fun.

Blackboards, art boards and mirrors

Using all natural materials, these safe havens for interesting bugs and creepy crawlies create a fun way of learning more about nature.

What’s more exciting or compelling to children than minibeasts?

Encourages children to: • Treat animals in the environment

with care and sensitivity.

• Observe and recognise some simple characteristics of minibeasts and other living things.

• Work together as part of a group or in pairs, taking turns and sharing fairly.

• Develop curiosity and interest by exploring their surroundings using their senses.

Minibeast areas

Naturestep is a natural looking, practical surface created from recycled rubber mulch which is mixed with a resin binder and wet poured onto a prepared sub base.

Lawn deluxe is our luxurious 36mm pile natural look artificial grass with the ‘c’ shaped yarn. This product has been widely used throughout children’s play areas and has proved its hard wearing qualities. We believe this is the nearest thing to natural grass on the market.

Softstep is one of the most practical playground surfaces and is available in a variety of colours...

This product is created using EPDM rubber granules and mixed with a resin binder then wet-poured onto a prepared sub base and levelled to a smooth finish.

Softstep (Wetpour)

Naturestep

Lawn deluxe – Artifical grass

Surfacing

Sail shades create a shaded functional and decorative feature to any garden. We offer many bespoke options to suit your space and budget.

Canopy shelters offer protection and shade from the elements, helping to ensure pupils get maximum benefit from playing outdoors.

They can be free standing or attached to a building and a huge range of dimensions, colours and structures are available including unique tailored made designs to fit your requirements.

Sail shades and canopies

Other play items... Slides Pull up ramp

Rockers Talking tubes

Finger maze

Musical Play Panels and instruments..... many more options available

Rain wheel Totem poles

Play Panels

From design to completion...

From design to completion...

Rod I just wanted to let you know how delighted the children and parents are with the new garden here in Cardiff – we have had a lot of very positive comments from parents and the children love the water pump and sand pit especially! I also wanted to thank Dave, Mike and Perry for their hard work last week – they were fantastic! We have over the years had a lot of different contractors working with the nursery but we have never had a group as accommodating as yours. Nothing was too much trouble for them considering the amount they had to do in a short time, they were still happy for the children to see the digger they were using and talk to the children about what they were doing in the garden. They were courteous and professional at all times and became part of the team for the time they were with us. I just wanted to give some positive feedback to you about them and please pass on our thanks to them as well. Regards Nichola Martin Nursery manager Cardiff

A few testimonials from our clients.....

Hi Rod,

We were very pleased with the work, and would like to say the following.

Staff Very courteous. helpful and polite. Kept their working area very tidy. Keen to help with any queries.

Work Brilliant transformation to outside area. Very pleased with the planters. Good quality of materials. Amazed at how quickly the work was completed.

Jo Evans Children's Centre

“Thank you for the tremendous amount of work that you and your team achieved over the summer. Your huge contribution has made a significant difference to our Academy, and has had a very positive impact on the self esteem and aspirations of the school community.

Thank you for all your time and effort.”

Paul McKeown, Principle