Our roots
The company’s origins go back to 1927 when the Naylor family founded their landscape contracting business. Their experience grew in the new techniques of hydraulic seeding and in 1968 Geoffrey Naylor, following years of study at Sutton Bonnington in Nottinghamshire and Kew Gardens in London , founded Hydraseeders Limited. Joined by the soil chemist, John Thornton the pair pioneered hydraulic seeding in the United Kingdom.
UK Leaders
The company continues to be the leading hydraulic mulch seeding contractor in the country. The company’s unsurpassed experience in hydraulic seeding allows us to offer architects and civil engineers an in-depth consultancy and advisory service, enabling the development of specifications suited to the parameters of a particular project.
Quality Assured
Hydraseeders Limited was the first hydraulic mulch seeding company in the country to obtain a Quality Assurance Accreditation. Customers can be confident of the highest standard of service.
Recognised for Excellence
Over the years Hydraseeders Limited have won numerous Environmental Awards for their work in land reclamation and re-vegetation projects.
A good example of how indigenous species of wild flower can be used to re-vegetate disturbed soils is on the Bilberry Wood cutting of the Harwarden By-Pass in Clwyd. Here approximately six acres of stone scree and rock strata were seeded with broom, gorse, creeping red fescue, clover and indigenous wild flowers. This again was an award winning project for Hydraseeders Limited.
Hydraseeders Limited won the Premier Award for Erosion Control in the 1988 BALI National Landscape Awards for their work on the CEGB Cheddar project. In order to stabilise the fines material on the 150-200ft high limestone cliffs at the CEGB Structural Test Centre. Here specially trained Hydraseeders personnel abseiled down the cliff face to apply the hydraseeding slurries and, later, the fertiliser treatment.
