Horticultural Maintenance

CGLA are experts in planting and planting design, whether it is installing new planting or improving existing (where it has failed to thrive or perhaps gotten out of control!). We are delighted to discuss project work where you have an area that now needs to be planted, or where an area of your garden needs to be brought back under control or improved. We typically undertake this kind of work as a standalone project or a regular slot on a monthly or quarterly basis. We have a team of award-winning planting designers and Garden designers who can use their expertise to help you design and specify this kind of work, as well as a landscaping team who can carry out hard landscaping jobs at the same time. Do feel free to contact us to discuss.

Our lovely team is small, and currently fully allocated for more regular (weekly or fortnightly) maintenance so at present we are unable to take on this kind of regular work.

CGLA have a small team of Horticultural maintenance staff who are often fully allocated. Whilst gaps do appear, these are usually swiftly filled so we unfortunately cannot guarantee that we can take your garden for weekly maintenance after the landscaping work.

Having said that, we do offer an advice service where our experts and designers can visit on a regular basis once the work is complete. Many clients value a quarterly or ad hoc walk around the garden (usually with eh person who designed it) to discuss the planting and general maintenance, and we can usually assist with any project work that arises from these discussions.

As a garden grows and develops, most gardens will benefit from planting developments and upgrades to keep it looking its best – they are not static things! Our team are often able to provide project works such as autumn cut-backs, lawn care treatments and bed strip out, pruning and replanting as needed. These are quoted as required.

All gardens need some maintenance if they are to look attractive year-round. Soft landscaped areas (planting and lawns) grow, and need regular care to stay looking good. Depending on the areas involved and the scale and type of planting, as well as your personal tastes, this can be anything from a quick mow once a week during the summer and a weed and tidy on a 1-2 month basis. Hard landscaped areas like driveways and patios will often need an annual clean/jetwash, but if well constructed rarely need much more than this.

If you have large trees there will be leaves to clear in autumn to prevent your lawns and planting from becoming buried and your patio from getting untidy and slippery!

In some ways, this is similar to managing the inside of your home in that you may be happy to do this all yourself, or you may feel that is too much for you- this will depend on how you want it to look as well as the overall style of the garden.

Since plants (including weeds) are growing most of the time, the longer you leave a mess or problem, the larger the task becomes, so we do advise getting a little and often done if possible. If it has all got on top of you we are happy to arrange a team to get it back into shape for you!

All gardens need some maintenance, even if it is largely astroturf and paving! Most of the gardens that we work on have at least some planting, lawns, and paved areas as well as water features, hedges and trees. Even at the low end of maintenance, there will be some lawns and hedges to cut, and perennial planting (which covers many of the favourite flowering plants) needs a cut back or tidy each year.

It is worth saying that gardens are unpredictable at times- animals, weather, and unruly planting can make the task rather more significant, and the plants clearly haven’t always read the books as to how they should behave!