Services – Ewan MacKenzie Gardening Services

MacKenzie Plants

Ewan MacKenzie — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:48:26 +0000

MacKenzie Plants is a new secondary company that my wife Charlene and myself are setting up and will hopefully be up and running by early February 2025. I currently supply plants for Landscaping projects but have always wanted to do more. In the early summer of 2024 we bought a new house with some land that now gives us the space to start this new company which has been a pipe dream for so long…

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Wood Chipping

craig — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:17:39 +0000

We wood chip or shred all of the tree branches and hedge clippings we cut. We have two machines, the larger is a wood chipper which is capable of chipping a log up to 6 inches or 15cm in diameter. It is a very powerful machine, mainly used on our tree surgery work. The smaller, orange machine is a shredder which shreds hedge clippings and smaller branches up to 3 inches or 7cm diameter.

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Stump Grinding

craig — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:16:05 +0000

A Stump Grinder is a machine that grinds away at tree stumps, turning them in to wood chips and completely removing them from sight — down to 20 cm below the soil surface. If you have a tree or shrub stump in your garden that is unsightly or in the middle of a lawn or boarder we are able to grind it away out of sight. You can then cover the remains in soil and grass over it or plant something…

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Sports Field Line Marking

craig — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:45:44 +0000

We have two types of line marking machines , our GPS machine for initial marking and manual machines for over marking, however we are looking into a fully autonomous machine for 2025. Our MAQA GPS linemarker system uses satellite technology to reduce the time it takes to initial mark pitches by 75%. We have the only MAQA GPS sports field line marker in Scotland. In spring 2019 we…

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Winter Maintence

craig — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:57:43 +0000

In the winter months, we provide both a proactive and reactive gritting and snow-clearing service. We have several regular sites that we grit when frosty and snow clear when required. We have several snowploughs and powered brushes for clearing snow efficiently. If we can, we will come and do extra work if required when poor weather comes.

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Weed Spraying

craig — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:57:34 +0000

We have a very experienced and qualified team of staff, who are licensed to spray chemicals, and hold NPTC PA1 and PA6 knapsack sprayer, including myself and Two of our full-time staff. I also personally hold PA2 tractor boom sprayer for spraying larger areas such as sports fields. As we are qualified, and therefore licensed, we are able to purchase and apply a chemical that may only be…

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Supply of Trees and Shrubs

craig — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:57:25 +0000

I can source and supply trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals through a network of commercial growers, mainly south nurseries I work with. Most come from a nursery in Invernessshire that I worked at for four years while at school and college. I can obtain large numbers of plants for a fraction of the price that you would pay in the garden centre. I mainly get them for landscaping/

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Sports Ground Maintenance

craig — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:57:11 +0000

We look after many sports fields across Orkney, including both natural and synthetic grass. We maintain 12 grass pitches, covering some 48 acres of grass a week in the height of the summer using our tractor and roller mower. We cover all aspects — weekly grass-cutting, scarifying, weed treatment, fertiliser application, light aeration, deep aeration, rolling, over seeding, top dressing…

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Grass Seeding

craig — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:56:57 +0000

Grass-seeding is a major part of the business, and we have been lucky enough to have been involved in some major projects in Orkney over the past 18 years. We have sown in the region of 1,000 properties, mainly at most of the new social houses built in the last 15 years, private new-builds, Rendall football pitch, the new Balfour hospital,new Stromness care home and most recently in 2024 the…

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Soft Landscaping

craig — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:56:46 +0000

We enjoy a soft landscaping project, whether it’s planting some summer bedding or clearing back an overgrown garden and redesigning it for a different use.

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