We were recently commissioned to built a drystone wall and feature for a clients garden in Angus. Projects like this are always exciting for us as drystone wallers as there is an opportunity to add a little extra artistic flair to our work. We were also very lucky to be working with clients who were happy to give us some creative freedom and were excited to see the final result.

We recently rescued a York Stone wall that was to be torn down, and we thought this recycled stone would be perfect for this project. This is one of the huge benefits of using stone for your garden projects, it is almost infinitely recyclable.

Working amongst the beautiful Angus countryside was a real pleasure, especially as we were blessed with good weather for almost the entirety of our build.

A view over a wheat field to blubells and a cottage surrounded by tall trees. Angus Scotland

The feature was a curved wall, 3.5 metres long, one end sitting at 1.2 metres and the other at 1m tall. York Stone is a lovely stone to work with but requires a fair amount of careful shaping to ensure it sits tight and level in the wall. You can see our handmade banker, that we use as a surface on which to shape stones, in the image below.

We decided to include a niche in the structure as an added area of visual interest. We found two beautiful feature stones for the top and bottom surfaces of the nuche and settled on a vertical stone backing which we felt was a unique design element that the clients would really appreciate. You can see the beautiful tonal differences in the stone in the image above. The niche is 30cm high and 20cm wide, offering a really functional space within the structure. This feature is set against the backdrop of the Angus hills and we created an undulating cope line to mirror the lines of the hills behind it.

The top of a drystone wall cope line with grass and hills behind it. Garden feature built in Angus by The Drystone Company Perthshire

We are incredibly happy with the final piece, as are our clients. Projects like this are very satisfying to work on, and it was definitely fun to be flexing our creative muscles.

A sansdstone, drystone garden feature. The drystone wall is curved and is higher at one end than the other. Drystone walling in Perthshire. Drystone wallers working in Perthshire, Fife, Angus, Stirlingshire, Kinross, Lothian

Unique Drystone Wall and Garden Feature in Angus

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The Drystone Company Interviewed by Hidden Scotland.