Ark
Landscape Gardeners. Ark has been vetted and approved by TrustATrader. Covering all Essex and Hertfordshire areas.
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Register GuaranteeAbout Ark, Braintree
With more than 10 years’ experience in the trade the landscape gardeners at Ark provide outstanding landscaping services to commercial and domestic customers in Essex and Hertfordshire.
We are a reliable firm of gardeners and are proud of the great eye for detail and unrivalled knowledge and experience of our team. No two garden designs are the same which means that every project undertaken by Ark has its own unique twist making it eye catching, functional and easy to maintain.
Each landscape gardener will take the time to get to know their customer so that they can establish their needs and wants. They will apply their broad range of skills and knowledge to find the best materials, flora and techniques to ensure that the customer is 100% satisfied. No job is too big or too small – our garden designers apply the same high standards to commercial and domestic jobs of all sizes.
Our garden designers offer a range of garden design and maintenance services, including:
- Full Landscape Design Service
- Turfing
- Lawns
- Hard Landscaping
- Block Paving
- Garden Maintenance
- Fencing
- Decking
- Small Tree Work
- Pruning
- Garden Clearance
- Pond maintenance
If you are interested in any of our services and would like to find out more please do not hesitate to contact us. Our friendly team are waiting to help you to transform your outdoor spaces.
Please mention Trustatrader when calling.
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- 81- New block paving laid
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- 81-New block paving laid
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- 81- New block paving laid
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- 81- New block paving laid.
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- 80- Spanish style garden, complete transformation
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- 80-New patio
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- 80- Spanish style garden including bonded gravel, rendered walls, lights, new turf, decking and a shed base with new patio.
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- 80- Spanish style garden including bonded gravel, rendered walls, lights, new turf, decking and a shed base with new patio.
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- 80- Spanish style garden, complete transformation.
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- 79- Slabbing around pond
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- 78- Step created
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- 77- New picket fence
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- 76- Freshly laid bark and plants to customers request
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- 75- New slabs and black ice chippings either side
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- 74- porcelain slabs, sleepers and new turf
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- 73- Turf, Decked steps and planters
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- 72- New turf
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- 71- Lattice fencing and posts
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- 70- New turf laid on different levels of garden
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- 69- New fencing and gate
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- 68- New fencing
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- 67- New fencing
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- 66- New corner decked area
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- 65- Raised planter bed with sleepers, new patio with lights fitted
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- 63- New porcelain patio and path with new turf
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- 62- New tiles fitted around area of choice
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- 61- 240 square meters of porcelain area with grey edgers
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- 60- New brick edging around pond
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- 59- New porcelain slabs to customer request
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- 58 Fencing
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- 58- Corner decked area and new fencing for customer
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- 57 - New composite grey decking with darker grey edge
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- 56-back garden- levelled out garden- new turf, pergola, privacy trellis fence and porcelain slabs with some raised beds
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- 56- Block paving with raised beds
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- 55- New large area of turf laid
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- 54- Before and After turf and stepping stones
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- 53- After picture of a garden makeover
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- 52- After Back garden- block paving continued throughout. Sleepers and steps with turf laid. Finished with picket fencing and gates
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- 52- After- Front driveway. Block paving
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- 52- Before garden refurbishment - Front driveway and back garden
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- 51- Before and after garden makeover with porcelain slabs
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- 50- porcelain slabs
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- 49- grass grids installed for parking. Base laid with grids and seed on top
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- 48- installation of a new like for like picket fence
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- 47- all shrubs cleared and block paving drive extended
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- 46- Sleeper border around tree and ivy cleared
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- 45- New composite Decking
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- 44- Slopped garden, levelled out and changed to a contemporary design
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- 43- Replaced raised patio with added brick path
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- 42- Complete garden refurb
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- 41- Before and after pond refurbishment
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- 40- New pond construction
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- 39- Pond maintenance- Before and after
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- 38- New updated bridge at customers request
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- 37- New fencing with trellis
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- 36- returfed and levelled out with top soil
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- 35– new fencing- top left before- remaining 3 after
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- 34- before
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- 34 -before
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- 35-after grass returfed levelled out with top soil
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- 35- after close up on planter beds with integrated lighting
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- 35- after- full planter bed made from sleepers with a mixture of plants
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- 33a Before
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- 33b- After- High footings and bespoke green house base precisely built to accommodate new green house being built on top
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- 33c- After
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- 32- Complete garden refurb- before and after
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- 28- New raised patio area with brick wall and steps. Indian sandstone slabs.
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- 31- Cleared bank full of ivy , sleeper retaining wall with small ever greens
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- 30- Slabbing with retaining sleeper wall and picket fence to secure for customers children - before and after
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- 29- Garden refurb , decking fencing and slate slabs with some turfing
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- 27- Indian sandstone cobbles
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- 25- patio ready for hot tub
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- 26- seating area with grey bricked edge and returfed
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- 24- Fence with trellis
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- 23- Topps tiles maintenance contract
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- 22- Creating a soft barked play area
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- 21- New fencing
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- 20- Hedge cutting
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- 19- Dug up garden ready for a complete refurb , with fencing , sleepers , turf and planting
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- 18- fencing and supports along bridge.
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- 17- New picket fencing coated in ronseal sky
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- 16- New small decorative omega fence
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- 15- New close board panel with concrete gravel boards and posts
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- 14- Small pattern rail bridge replacing the old rotten one
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- 13- Transforming a concrete low level pad into a levelled decking area
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- 12a- before- composite decking, garden returfed and new fencing.
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- 11a- fencing
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- 10a- turfed and paved edging
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- 9a- before- sunken block paving done by company before. Releveled and returfed.
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- 8a - before- customer was left with this from a previous company
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- 7a- before relevel into two tiers, returf, decorative stone and raising drains.
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- 5a Garden refurb
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- 5c- before and after
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- 4a- before decking area
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- 3a Indian sandstone paving -before
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- 2a raised planter beds
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- 1a complete garden returb
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| Provider | SB-Simply Business |
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| Verified | 23rd March 2023 |
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Reviews (108)
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Average rating: 5.0 out of 5
Review by Malcolm
on 24th June 2024
"Ben, Mark and Liam worked very hard and long hours. They were always very punctual , polite and very tidy. The works they have completed is to a very high standard and are perfect. Nothing was too much for them as we kept adding more jobs to their list. They updated us on a regular basis as to how it was all going. Any problems were sorted swiftly and anything we found to be not quite right was rectified. If we need any works done in the future we will be using Ben and his team. We highly recommend their services."
- Initial impression Initial impression: 5 out of 5.0
- Punctuality Punctuality: 5 out of 5.0
- Cleanliness Cleanliness: 5 out of 5.0
- Quality Quality: 5 out of 5.0
- Value Value: 5 out of 5.0
- Overall opinion Overall opinion: 5 out of 5.0
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Average rating: 5.0 out of 5
Review by Rob Ewers
on 3rd June 2024
"Incredible job by Ben and his team! Completely redesigned the back garden and it looks even better than we could have hoped. All of the guys were really nice to deal with and left the site as tidy as possible throughout the work. Ben had lots of great ideas which really helped deliver a fantastic end product. All very honest add trustworthy… no concerns at all about recommending to others."
- Initial impression Initial impression: 5 out of 5.0
- Punctuality Punctuality: 5 out of 5.0
- Cleanliness Cleanliness: 5 out of 5.0
- Quality Quality: 5 out of 5.0
- Value Value: 5 out of 5.0
- Overall opinion Overall opinion: 5 out of 5.0
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Average rating: 5.0 out of 5
Review by Keir Hughes
on 5th April 2024
Keir Hughes - Image 1 "Ben, Mark and the rest of his team did an amazing job with our driveway, kept us up to date with how it was going at each stage and were super considerate of my children and created a safe clean pathway for them to use each day when home from school. Really good people and easy to deal with, made sure the job was completed to a high standard before they finished. Would absolutely recommend them and have already contacted Ben regarding further work."
- Initial impression Initial impression: 5 out of 5.0
- Punctuality Punctuality: 5 out of 5.0
- Cleanliness Cleanliness: 5 out of 5.0
- Quality Quality: 5 out of 5.0
- Value Value: 5 out of 5.0
- Overall opinion Overall opinion: 5 out of 5.0
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Review by Michelle H
on 8th January 2024
"Ben and his team worked very hard to give me the dream drive I had been waiting 10yrs for! Their work they complete to perfection, asking us and updating us at every opportunity. They made sure the area was safe for our disabled child when he returned from school in his taxi, stopping what they were doing and making way for him to get past and reducing the noise until he was safely in the house and gave him a wave when the team noticed him at the window looking out! We will be using Ben and his team in the future for maintenance to our trees and hedges. I highly recommend their services. You will not be disappointed"
- Initial impression Initial impression: 5 out of 5.0
- Punctuality Punctuality: 5 out of 5.0
- Cleanliness Cleanliness: 5 out of 5.0
- Quality Quality: 5 out of 5.0
- Value Value: 5 out of 5.0
- Overall opinion Overall opinion: 5 out of 5.0
