Nailsea Patio Supplies : the Aladdin’s cave for landscapers and serious water gardeners.

If there was ever an Aladdin's Cave for landscapers then Nailsea Patio
Supplies is it and John Marshall the owner is the Genie of the Lamp!

A tiny part of the vast array of hard landscaping products: The land on the horizon is another storage area mostly for natural stoneHere, between the A38 near Bristol and the M5 right next to Nailsea Railway Station, you’ll find all those impossible to find hard landscaping materials that you need in any quantity: paving, walling, both ‘recon’ and natural, brick, stone, slates, gravel to pebbles of every size from every corner of the country and mulching materials of every type and colour imaginable from shredded tyres to broken glass. And the prices? They are not design for the pick and mix hand scoop, we talk in tonnes and square metres here and the prices encourage you to buy in those sorts of quantities. There are ornament and containers, pergolas and archways. On top of that there is fencing, edging, sleepers (old and new), timber and the decking. There is proper top soil too and silver-sand for horticultural use; I haven’t seen that being sold by the ton for years. John even recycles old building products for use as hardcore or footings or fancy mulches. There is a lot of recycling going on here. Wait until you see some of the exotic mulches that seem straight out of an outré garden designers’ handbook with crushed and tumbled coloured glass,bricks, metal, rubber and most attractive of all, recycled toilet bowls!

Water Gardening Products

Water gardeners can get all they need here. This water fall is an outlet for a bio-filter.Water gardeners can get their liners, bio-fiters, UVs and pumps here and there is all the kit to be had for the legendary Oase swimming ponds, but that kit is not the ‘cheap cheerful’ stuff that will just about do the job for a budget. This is for the serious project where quality and reliability comes before price.

Nailsea Patio Supplies has everything a landscaper needs to make the garden of his or any of his customers’ dreams. It is the most amazing conglomeration of products for hard landscaping construction that I have ever seen. Thank all things that are good it’s in the South West. I had become despondent because there was nowhere where you buy a reasonable range of paving, walling, stone or pond equipment for miles around the Bristol area. Products could be found but it usually entailed paying bitterly through the nose or scurrying around for one product here and another there, taking more than the best part of a man’s day off a job even for the simplest project. But unbeknown to me there was Nailsea Patio Supplies, and it has been there in nestled in Nailsea near Clevedon for years.

John used to work for a very busy stone haulage contractor for many years and during that time built up a list of contacts as long as your arm. When he retired from haulage he and his wife put allThe clarity of the water in the highly populated koi pond show the effectiveness of the filtration their savings into John'. s dream of creating a ‘hard landscaping centre’ and started to use that list of contacts to fuel the investment. Now there are acres of products lined up in bags ready for rummaging through or to be delivered straight as they are. If there did happen to be something that you wanted and it wasn’t at Nailsea Patio Supplies, if it can be found John will get it for you on condition that the quantities made it worth while or he thought other visitors to the centre would buy it. It would be all part of the service.

As a businessman, if John has a fault then it might be that he is too generous. Nothing is too much trouble. For instance the water garden kit they sell for the large part is only the best, but the packaging may look a bit worn and dishevelled. That’s because if you want to see how some complex filter box or pump kit goes together, out it comes and a hands on demonstration ensues.

Oase pond products can be a bit intimidating for the beginner or newcomer to them, but as soon as you get ‘hands-on’ with them the logic behind their construction becomes obvious, and what’s more you can feel the quality.

John Marshall, the owner of Nailsea Patio SuppliesLANDSCAPING TEAM

If there is a grand project for a pond, massive filtration or straightforward hard landscaping scheme then the Marshall family spring into action as a team. Brian, John’s son, is a fully fledged builder working with his team fulltime on projects that come through Nailsea Patio Supplies. Meanwhile Sandra, John’s wife keeps the helm steady in the office. As a testament to their proficiency, Oase has designated Naisea Patio Supplies as their main dealer for the South West and their preferred installer for the Oase swimming pond kits. The Oase Swimming Ponds are effectively swimming pools that are kept clean by the activity of plants and the bacteria associated with them. You can see how effective the system is because John has installed one of the smaller systems on site. They are also a Brett Approved installation team for Brett building products.

At first site Nailsea Patio Supplies doesn’t look too pretty, but when you take stock of what is there the reality of what is there emerges. How can you make piles of hard landscaping products look pretty? Once the appreciation of what is there begins to dawn on you then you can see the beauty of it: a gem down by the railway line in Nailsea.

MULCHES GALORE!

A small sample of the varieties of small pebbles available

Small samples on display of mulches and gravel from all over the country available by the tonne

Some of the more unusual gravelly mulches.: The central one described as 'Ivory' is in fact clean crushed 'loo bowls'

Shells for your beach!

The Oase Swimming Pond for Sale and Installation from Nailsea Patio Supplies

The Oase swimming pond at Nailsea Patio Supplies

The water is so clear you can still see the creases in the liner 4 feet down

This demonstration swimming pond is the smallest sized pond in kit form that Oase and Nailsea Patio Supplies sell.: Although you would not want anything smaller, it is an effective demonstration of the theory.

A complete review of the 'swimming pond' concept and how and who to get will be arriving soon in your watergardener magazine.com.

So for hard landscaping supplies and or their installation, and a more personal interpretation of of the 'swimming pond', contact Nailsea Pation Supplies email: info@nailsea-patio-supplies.co.uk

or contact them through the webite: www.nailsea-patio-supplies.co.uk

Or telephone: 01275 851706 Fax: 01275 856616.

The address is Station Close, Backwell, North Somerset, BS48 1TJ.