Horticultural Maintenance

Beyond the Design

The art of horticultural maintenance is to nurture a garden from its completion (or current state) through the years, improving and developing it with time. While tidying your garden is important, when you are dealing with nature, where plants grow and change over time, ensuring they are given the correct care can be the difference between blooming and decaying.

Regular grounds maintenance

CGLA, unlike most companies, do not offer weekly “mow and blow” garden maintenance, there are plenty of other options who can do this. Instead, what we offer is skilled consultations, planting upgrades and design improvements, as well as focussed project works to get your garden up to scratch- whether on a monthly, quarterly or ad hoc basis.

While we cannot take on many new gardens for scheduled weekly maintenance, we do look after a small number. Typically, this works well where the scale is a little larger than average or the finish quality desired is particularly high. If you are likely to require attentive maintenance several days a week to keep your grounds as you want them, we would be happy to chat. Availability is very limited, but we would be delighted to speak to you and discuss whether our services would be suitable for your needs.

a stepped lawn with clipped hedges and trees

TREE AND HEDGE PLANTING

We are real experts at designing, sourcing, and installing trees and hedging. The winter season (from late October) is when we can obtain larger tree and shrub planting as well as the best hedging stock, so we should be planning this as soon as humanly possible. Whether you need a designer to assist you in working out how to achieve the screening you want, or are replacing box hedging decimated by caterpillars, we can advise and lead you through the process from start to finish.

Three bushes in a garden shaped into cylinders

YEAR ROUND BEAUTY

It is important to use the winter to prepare and organise your garden for the following Spring, making sure your planting is properly cared for, pruned and managed, ready to burst back into life. Investing a bit of time over the winter will reduce the workload in the busier summer time! We can advise on this work and can offer some focussed project work to get on top of these tasks during the winter period.

EVENT PLANNING

We can assist you in planning for a wedding or large party, with planting overhauls and a serious maintenance project to bring the garden up to scratch. If you are interested in this service, please give as much notice as possible. Our process involves detailed planning as we want to ensure you receive the best possible result.

“Cool Gardens designed a new garden for us. The design was and is fabulous and the end result looks amazing. We are now using the CGLA maintenance team to look after the garden. And keep it looking amazing. They are a very nice team of people. They combine design flair with care about what they do and work to very high standards of professionalism and customer care”.

Client: Rob Evans, Ledborough Lane

FAQs

Do you carry out garden maintenance?Jo Fisher2023-08-09T11:36:44+01:00

Do you carry out garden maintenance?

Yes we have a small team who offer garden maintenance. We do usually offer this to our landscaping clients and to other clients who want a high quality service and fit within one of our service areas. Do contact us to check on our current availability.

How often do I need gardeners?Jo Fisher2023-08-09T11:37:32+01:00

How often do I need gardeners?

That is up to you. Most gardens benefit from weekly maintenance, but smaller and lower maintenance plots can work well with less frequent visits. Some clients like to look after their own gardens and just call in help when they want a more comprehensive go at it, or to deal with the lawns themselves and have more skilled people dealing with the planting and hedging for example. We can be flexible and are happy to discuss this with you.

How do you know how long it will take without seeing the garden first?Jo Fisher2023-08-09T11:38:05+01:00

How do you know how long it will take without seeing the garden first?

We don’t! we will always come and visit and discuss with you what you want to achieve before quoting you for the work. Even having seen it once we don’t know quite how it will grow, and none of us has a crystal ball as to the weather which impacts how things go. That is why we charge on the time that is used and get as much done as we can in that time.

Do I need two gardeners, can’t I have just one?Jo Fisher2023-08-10T10:57:49+01:00

Do I need two gardeners, can’t I have just one?

It is largely not safe or practical to have just one person on a client site at one time. Lifting mowers in and out of vans and working alone with machinery are health and safety risks so we typically send our teams out in pairs.

Do you supply plants?Jo Fisher2023-08-10T11:11:05+01:00