Our Craft
Hand-drawn planting plans built around your soil type, aspect and drainage, not around whatever the nurseries are pushing this month.
We draw the plan, prepare the ground, set every plant by hand, and come back through the seasons so the space keeps improving long after the crew has packed up.
Our Services
Gardening started as two people, one flatbed truck and a borrowed rotavator. We still do the digging ourselves. Every plan begins with a soil test, a note of where the light falls at four in the afternoon, and a long conversation about how you actually want to use the space.
A garden is not finished on handover day. It is finished somewhere around its fifth summer, and only if somebody has been paying attention the whole way.
Of the gardens we plant are still on our care round three years later.
Hand-drawn planting plans built around your soil type, aspect and drainage, not around whatever the nurseries are pushing this month.
Four gardeners and two vans. No subcontractors, no agency labour. The people who price the job are the people who dig it.
A named gardener returns on every visit, so nobody has to relearn where the bulbs are buried or which stems get cut back hard.
Measured surveys, scale drawings and a build crew who set the levels, paths and bed edges properly before a single plant is unwrapped.
Scarifying, aeration, top dressing and fresh turf laid onto ground that has been graded and prepared, so it knits in instead of lifting.
Layered borders chosen for succession, so something is opening from the first snowdrop in February to the last aster in October.
Formative pruning, crown lifting and hedge shaping on a cycle set by the species and its flowering wood, not by the calendar month.
Leaky-pipe lines, soakaways and rain-butt feeds that cut your watering time and stop beds sitting sodden through a wet winter.
Scheduled visits for mowing, edging, feeding, deadheading and leaf clearing, billed as one flat monthly figure with no call-out charges.
We test pH and drainage before we specify anything, so nothing goes in that will sulk for three years and then quietly die.
The gardener who drew your plan is on site the day it is planted, and back again for the first spring cut-back the following year.
Line-by-line pricing for labour, plants and materials, agreed in writing. No day-rate surprises once the beds are already open.
Prunings, turf and spoil leave with us and go to a licensed composting site, not into a corner behind your garage.
We plant for what the garden becomes in year five, not for what photographs well the week we finish. That means smaller stock, wider spacing and a bit of patience for a border that fills in properly and stays healthy.
Four stages, each one signed off before the next begins. You always know what is happening in your garden next week and what it will cost.
Book A Site Visit
We walk the plot with you, mark where the sun lands morning and evening, take samples from three points and listen to how you want to use the space.
You receive a scale drawing, a full plant schedule with pot sizes and quantities, and a written price. Nothing is dug until you have signed it off.
Hard landscaping goes in first, then beds are dug over and improved, then everything is set out on the surface for your eye before it goes in the ground.
Twelve months of scheduled visits are included, with a written watering guide and a replacement promise on anything that fails to establish.
Design work usually begins within a fortnight of your site visit. Build and planting dates depend on the season, so we hold slots open through spring and autumn. If the ground is frozen or waterlogged we will say so rather than plant into conditions that will set the garden back a year.
We supply everything and pass on our nursery rate. You get an itemised schedule listing every species, pot size and quantity, so you can see exactly what is going in the ground and what each part of the border costs.
Anything we supply and plant is covered for a full growing year. If it fails to establish and it was not down to a summer with no watering, we lift it and replace it on the next scheduled visit at no charge.
Yes. A good share of our weekly round is in gardens somebody else designed. We start with a condition walk-round and hand you a written month-by-month schedule so you know what happens and when before you commit to anything.
Often. Tight spaces need sharper plant choices and better drainage detailing, not less thought. We survey and quote a twenty-foot courtyard the same way we would quote an acre.
Average rating from clients on our seasonal care round
