Hydroseeding using state of the art purpose built machinery ensures that the ingredients – grass seed, fertilisers, soil binders and mulch are thoroughly mixed in tank and kept suspended in a homogenous slurry prior to application. The slurry is pumped to a high pressure discharge nozzle for uniform application onto sub soils, top soils and root zone to provide an even coverage on the roughest of terrain.
All types of vegetation can be grown using this system from fine fescue golf course mixtures to department of transport approved roadside grasses and native wild flower meadows and mowing strips. Hydroseeding has become a widely used method of seed application where large areas can be covered in a relatively short space of time and allows grasses to be grown where conventional landscape methods are impossible to utilise.
Aitchison Hydroseeding Ltd key staff and team members are City & Guilds National Proficiency Test Council trained, qualified and certificated for herbicide application and invasive species management.
Controlling unwanted vegetation with a safe and environmentally acceptable approach through stem injection.
Hand held applicators for smaller areas and spot treatments can be utilised along with self propelled boom sprayers for larger areas.
Our employees are National Proficiency Test Council City and Guilds qualified tree surgeons. We have experience in dismantling all species of trees. Tree surgery /felling is carried out using advanced arboricultural rigging techniques to dead / dangerous trees, storm damaged and trees for site clearance.
We operate an environmental 'no burn' policy for all brushwood. All brushwood from our tree operations is chipped on site and can be extracted if required. Our tree surgeons are capable of tackling all trees regardless of age or condition and we specialise in site clearance for commercial land devlopers or civil engineering works.
We offer tree planting services to suit differing client needs. We use the highest quality British grown trees from saplings to mature trees to ensure optimal survival and establishment rate.
Over our years of operation we have planted hundreds of thousands trees in woodland, aquatic and parkland settings working alongside client specifications with the best methods employed.
Hydroseeding works to 468,000m2 of cable tracks, borrow pits and tracksides of the new Viking Energy Project using native grasses on the main island of Shetland.
Date: August 2023
Client: RJ McLeod
Initially we used our purpose built quadbike seeders to seed 65,000m2 on an out of use, drained reservoir. A further visit to hydroseed 14,000m2 was completed using our Unimog and mounted hydroseeder.
Date: May 2023/Septemeber 2023
Client: George Leslie
Hydroseeding works to 348,000m2 of coastal wildflower meadow and coastal grasses to further enhance the flora and fauna of the existing and local environment.
Date: May 2022
Client: I & H Brown
Hydroseeding to areas along the roadside and trackside of Clyde Windfarm to help re-establish the disturbed areas with local grasses.
Date: June 2021
Client: Jones Bros
Hydroseeding works carried out to reinstate the verges and disturbed areas of the newly updated runway at the air base.
Date: November 2020
Client: Volker Fitzpatrick
180 light standard trees of varying species and over 5700 cell grown stock planted to generate deciduous woodland, coniferous woodland and hedgerows in areas we have previously hydroseeded at North Drumboy Quarry.
Date: January 2022
Client: Breedon Aggregates
Conversion of existing ash football pitches in the Eastend of Glasgow into amenity landscape planted parkland and walkways with open wetland swale and aquatic planted attenuation ponds for water vole habitat - Aitchison Hydroseeding Ltd input :- Planting of 530 extra heavy standard large hardwood trees with 2142 of woodland whips , hedgerow and 3500 of ornamental shrubs - Hydroseeding to swale & ponds with wetland plants and Hydroseeding to parkland with amenity and woodland species .
Date: Winter 2019
Client: Glasgow City Council
Main Contractor - R J McLeod (Contractors) Ltd
Hydroseeding works to 20km pipetrack at Thirlemere Link Mains for Cumbria Water (Cockermouth to Keswick)
Date: Autumn 2018
Client: Farrans - Roadbridge JV – Main Contractor
Hydroseeding 1 million square metres of fine fescue grasses on the sculpted dunes of roughs and fairways of the Dumbarnie Golf course.
Date: Summer 2018
Client: Greentech (Sportsturf) Ltd
Hydroseeding to verges & batters on the Aberdeen bypass
Date: June 2018
Client: Transport Scotland
Hydroseeding Corriegarth Windfarm Inverness-shire for RJ McLeod contractors
Date: July 2017
Client: Enercon
Hydroseeding to capped area on Glengorm landfill site at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull
Date: May 2017
Client: Glengorm
Hydroseeding on M8 east carriageway at the Baillieston showcase to Euro central
Date: April 2017
Client: Transport Scotland
The planting of 10,000 hardwood and softwood saplings to stabilise newly formed clay flood embankment.
Date: 2018
Client: R J McLeod
Sectional felling to lime trees within a confined space of a private garden
Date: November 2016
Client: Consumer
Nightshift sectional felling using a MEWP to railway embankment under railway possession and road closure.
Date: November 2016
Client: Scotrail
Hydroseeding works to newly formed shooting range floors and over burden using acid grassland seedmix.
Date: Autumn 2016
Client: Mackenzie Construction
Hydroseeding borrow pit 4
Date: June 2016
Client: R J McLeod
Final visit to the Shetland Gas Plant to complete native grass hydroseeding to newly formed peat embankments, perimeter fence lines and flare stack base.
Date: May 2016
Client: Total E&P
Wild flower hydroseeding to areas adjacent to newly constructed storage facility on the outskirts of Dundee.
Date: April 2016
Client: Michelin Tyres
Aquatic planting to attenuation pond surrounds at the newly formed sub-station for Iberdrola.
Client: Iberdrola
A newly built distillery in the heart of Spey side a couple of miles from Aberlour - opened by Nicola sturgeon - the whisky produced here is not for mass export and will be for the discerning consumer.
Client: Dalmunach Distillery
Aitchison Hydroseeding Ltd planted 16,000 native hardwood trees onto the embankments lining the new road to provide a shelter belt and habitat for the woodland birds.
Client: Transport Scotland
Sculpted from the sand dunes of Balmedie Aberdeendshire, some 600,000 sqm of hydroseeding was applied to the golf course landscape, over a 3 month period, to stabilise and grow what is now one of the world’s leading golf courses.
Client: Trump International Golf Links
A steep sided peat hill side had to be excavated to accommodate the new plant with 650,000 ³ of peat placed in storage tanks for future use when the plant is decommissioned. We established vegetation on those stored peat surfaces as well as the verges and embankments of the 2.4 km access road.
A New 15 mile rail link between North Lanarkshire and West Lothian. Our Elite team of NPTC City and Guilds Certified tree surgeons carried out specialised felling works to make way for the newly re-opened rail road.
Client: Carrillion Rail
Britains largest Hydro Electric project was treated with a hydroseed mix of fine fescue grasses to an area of 1.5 million sqm of scarred landscape. Our all terrain hydroseeders gained easy access to even the most challenging areas.
Client: Hochtief
Farr Windfarm has 40 Turbines which cover an area of 26 miles of access track. We applied fescue native grasses to reduce the environmental impact on local wildlife particularly the golden plover and hen harrier to an area of 500,000 sqm.
Client: Npower
The Aitchison family have been Hydroseeding in the UK since 1968. Alex T Aitchison was founder of this exciting new process of seeding which was first introduced to the United Kingdom in the 1960’s. He was indeed a pioneer of Hydroseeding at that time. The knowledge and expertise gained in those early years has been fundamental to the success of the business today.
In 1979, Gary Aitchison joined his father and learned the skills and knowledge of Hydroseeding. It seemed the right thing to do as Gary had always helped out over the school summer holidays, he had a willingness to learn and worked hard, starting from the ground up.
The re-development of Scotland’s second largest heap of colliery waste bing (Addiewell South), transformed into landscaped contours to soften the visual impact on the neighbouring mining village of West Calder. Aitchison Landscape contractors planted 150,000 native hardwood and softwood trees on the embankments and surrounds of this newly contoured bing and hydroseeding to the flat inner areas. This work was carried out for RJ Levack for West Lothian Council. This area is now the surrounds of HMP, Addiewell.
Gary took over the business in 1996, and secured new contracts with RJMcLeod, for Transport Scotland, on the A830 Fort William to Mallaig Road. The planting of 18,000 cell grown native hardwood trees and hydroseeding to embankments and verges provide what is now an ideal habitat for the flora and fauna of the surrounding environment.
Aitchison Hydroseeding is involved in a number of high profile contracts throughout Scotland, continuing to meet high environmental and ecological standards, helping to provide the ideal habitat for Scotlands flora and fauna.
New addition to the plant fleet - Honda quad seed and fertiliser broadcast spinner - for revegetating the huge soft ground areas on Windfarm and Hydroscheme borrow pits.
Our MAN HX 4x4 18 Tonne All terrain truck, the current transport vehicle of choice for the British Army, coupled with our Finn T120 Hydroseeding unit is capable of delivering Hydroseeding slurry for application to the roughest of terrains and can cover vast areas.
Three (senior) team members have successfully completed the Nebosh General Certificate in health and safety at the start of this year. This great success shows our dedication to health and safety within our workplace and can be implemented on site.
Operations Director, Health & Safety Manager
Company Secretary, Administration, Health & Safety Manager
Operations Manager, Health & Safety Manager
Our team has over 50 years of knowledge and experience. We are able to determine and tailor a suitable grass seed or wild flower mixture to blend into the surrounding landscape and soften the impact any construction project may have on the environment. The knowledge and experience we have gained allows us to modify seed specification to the customer and environments needs.
For further information on Aitchison Hydroseeding please complete this form or give us a call.
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