Services
I have a strong responsibility to see the gardens I create or existing gardens I care for, flourish and be at their best, whilst meeting the clients’ wishes and adding to the biodiversity of the place.
I like to maintain the garden throughout the entire year, tending to its specific needs and requirements for each season. I do this on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis.
1. Garden Maintenance
My services include:
Rose care: rose selection, pruning, deadheading, and controlling pests and diseases
Topiary: is an art that I am trained and skilled in, using power tools and hand tools to clip trees, shrubs and hedges into any ornamental shape
Hedges: Trimming, selecting and planting hedges
Tree pruning: Pruning, controlling and removing suckers, training trees and shrubs into standards
Bulb planting. Selecting bulbs to be planted in mass, drifts, garden borders or container’s.
Maintenance of perennials: Selecting, cutting back, dividing, propagating and deadheading
Mulching. Selecting and sourcing the right mulch for the specific needs of the garden.
Weeding and weed control. Using hand removal and herbicides
Pest and disease control. Using organic pesticides
Vegetable and fruit planting: seasonal harvesting and planting. Using the methods of companion planting and rotation. Fertilizing, mulching and pest and disease management.
Soil maintenance through fertilizing and soil conditioners.
Plant selection and replacement: specializing in Climate resilient planting
Garden styling: Selecting pots, garden furniture, ornaments, lighting and sculptures
Interior planting: Selecting plants for indoors in glasshouses, homes or commercial spaces.
Lawn mowing and whipper snipping
2. Garden Design
I can redesign your entire garden, update or revamp it with new plants or transplant existing plants. Garden styling by adding pots, ornaments, furniture, lighting and sculptures can also add to a garden’s new look.
With my artistic eye and horticultural knowledge sometimes all it takes to transform your garden is a hedger to shape some shrubs, loppers to lift the canopy of a tree and shears to thin out plants, allowing plants to shine, complement each other and create layers in the garden.
The principles of design being, form, colour, proportion, harmony, and texture are always fundamental in the aesthetics of my work. I also consider with my plant selection a garden that offers something interesting in every season.
If you require a more extensive design, then I can produce a concept plan which involves the following process.
Design Phase:
I would visit your garden and gather as much information. I would find out what your requirements for the garden are, favorite colours, styles, themes, plants, views and budget you have in mind.
A survey of the garden is then required to take accurate measurements, boundaries, existing plants, soil type, a Site analysis, aspect and conditions.
Following the initial visit and site assessment I then produce a concept plan based on your brief.
The Concept plan contains a scaled plan, elevations, selected plants and materials. The plan is drawn in 2d and 3d cad program.
Construction phase:
I manage the construction phase ensuring that the project delivers the final design finish that both myself and the client specified. I love to do all the soft landscaping, setting out the plants, sourcing them, planting and mulching.
With hard landscaping I like to select the landscapers and other trades, working with qualified experienced landscapers and stone masons on all aspects of the structural landscaping.
Once the project is complete, I set up a maintenance program and when possible, maintain the garden myself.
