Quadron Services Ltd, the green space management company based at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset were the principal winners of two accolades at the BALI Awards held in the Great Room at the Grosvenor Hotel in London in December.


Quadron's Ben Binnell (3rd from left) and Ian Fleming (far left) with clients from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, accepting the award from Will Carr of sponsors Ransomes Jacobsen (second from right) and comedian Hugh Dennis (far right) 

One of these accolades that the Quadron team received was the award for the best Domestic or Commercial Grounds Maintenance contract under £50,000 for their work maintaining the Kyoto and Fukushima Garden in Holland Park. This award category was sponsored by Ransomes Jacobsen. Quadron's second principal award was for their maintenance of Burgess Park in Southwark.

The Kyoto Garden was opened in 1992 and was a co-operative project between the Royal borough of Kensington and the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce in Japan. The new Fukushima extension was created in the summer of 2012 to commemorate the aid Britain provided to Japan following the nuclear disaster suffered by the prefecture.

Quadron has been responsible for the maintenance of the garden since 2003, which demands an extremely high level of attention to detail and the adoption of traditional Japanese maintenance practices, wherever possible.

Ian Fleming, Holland Park's Head Gardener commented, "The Kyoto and Fukushima gardeners and I are incredibly pleased and proud of our Principal Award sponsored by Ransomes jacobsen; it feels like our hard work has really paid off. Working in the Kyoto and Fukushima Garden has presented us with many opportunities, but this has been one of the greatest."