Find a hotel landscape gardener in Torbay - Torquay, Paignton and Brixham in Devon

Ace garden services, www.acegardenservices.co.uk , have specialised experience when it come to hotel landscape gardening in Torbay - Torquay, Paignton and Brixham in Devon. They have helped two hotels win awards from the Torbay in bloom competition as well as from the Green Business Tourism scheme.

The micro climate of Torbay*{ http://www.english-riviera.org/ } is renowned for allowing a plethora of exotics and unusual plants to thrive. Tourists visiting the bay will often leave with these plants, including the obligatory Torbay Palm, collected after an interesing days exploration. {http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/site/attractions/searchresults?src_... }
With a local GDP based on tourism { http://www.torquay.com/ } it is vital to not only preserve this garden landscape but to capitalise on it.
It is, however, easy to achieve much at a reasonable cost, particularly as modern trends for plants matches the favourable conditions for such plants found in Torbay. Exotic and architectural plants do exceptionally well here.
To name but a few:
Leptospernum {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospermum } , flourishes in the bay evocating hints of Southern Italy and the Southern hemisphere.
Echiums* {http://www.echiums.com/ }, the marmite plant - always the wow factor whether you love it or hate it. The Toorak hotel has a fine example { http://www.acegardenservices.co.uk/Bay%20Blooms%20Torbay.htm#. }
Osteospernum {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteospermum }, with year round flowering what a brilliant plant to adorn that little bank or patch of ground you never knew what to do with.
These are just a small variety of plants which can boost the impressions left on a visitors mind.
The hotel garden landscape needs to maximise on its recreational facilities, whilst also trying to enhance its natural splendour. Done well in the smallest of gardens you can create the impression of a much larger and grander garden. Careful planting of fastigiate trees and architectural shrubs, limiting beds to slopes or non practical areas. Placing seats and benches in alcoves surrounded by exotics and spaced in an erractic but accessible manner.
[The Babbacombe Model Village*{ http://www.babbacombemodelvillage.co.uk/ } and Plant World {http://www.plant-world-seeds.com/ } are two text book examples of how landscaping can be used to distort spatial awareness by the beholder, the visitor believing they are in a much larger space.]
Even the geology of Torquay, with its deep red sandstone, which tints the sheep grazing in the field on the horizon pink and the huge coral reef fossil encompassing the whole bay,( used in many buildings, on closer inspection you are clearly able to make out the different corals), instill a sense of being somewhere unusual and exciting and far from the British main. As such when the local stone is used in hard landscaping, stone walling and rockeries it can contribute further to these feelings.
A bit of planning, some careful thought, and well chosen plants added to the newly landscaped areas will change a hotel for ever.
And the reward - That people will leave the bay with the warm glow associated with time spent amongst palm trees, golden beaches and red and white cliffs adorned with Olive Trees.
The Olive are actually Holly Oak, (Quercus ilex), but don't tell anyone.
Ace Gardening Services { http://www.acegardenservices.co.uk}
- With many thanks to Pip from Cornwall landscaping { http://www.cornwalllandscaping.co.uk }