PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
FOR SHOWSTOPPING GARDENS.
Essential Garden Care Programme
The Essential Garden Care Programme is ideal for those who do not have a dedicated gardener but still want their garden to receive professional care and attention to keep it happy and healthy every season. This programme includes regular visits from a crew of two experienced gardeners to manage and maintain your garden’s planting areas, creating a showstopper garden for you and your guests to enjoy!
Key Features of the Programme:
Regular Visits: Our team will carry out essential tasks such as staking, tie-in climbing plants, deadheading, feeding, weeding, mulching, and annual cutbacks. These tasks ensure that your garden’s planting areas are well-maintained, thriving, and visually stunning, with a focus on keeping your plants healthy and robust.
Pruning: We offer expert pruning of roses, topiary, shrubs, and perennials to keep your garden looking neat, professional, and well-structured.
Team of Two Gardeners: Depending on the size and complexity of your garden, we work in teams of two, allowing us to carry out maintenance safely and efficiently and make a real impact during each visit.
Plant-Focused: We are a horticultural-focused service, not a general garden tidy-up or clearance service. We are dedicated plant people who supply and care for plants.
Specialist Lawn Care and Hedge Maintenance: For larger properties that require grounds maintenance, we will source and manage a trusted supplier to take care of specialist lawn care, tree services and large hedge maintenance, ensuring every aspect of your garden is tended to with the highest level of expertise, whilst our in-house Stagecraft Gardens crew refines the finest details and plant health for a complete showstopper garden.
Monthly Reports and Annual Maintenance Plan: You will receive monthly reports detailing completed work and recommendations for future care. Additionally, we will provide an annual maintenance and planting plan to help you understand the garden's needs.
Small to Large Spaces: We work on a range of gardens, from small courtyard potted spaces to long townhouse gardens overlooking the meadows to large rural gardens nestled in the countryside.
This programme can also be combined with our Planting Design Service for those who wish to transform their garden over time. Whether through top-up planting or new planting areas, our planting designer will provide professional input to help your garden evolve with our vision.
Choosing the Essential Garden Care programme is a great investment in the enjoyment and health of your garden and personal well-being, with the peace of mind that comes from dedicated professionals looking after your outdoor space, large or small.
Monthly Care Programme
Our Monthly Care Programme is designed for those who already have a regular gardener but require additional specialist support to ensure their garden reaches its full showstopping potential.
This programme complements your existing gardener's work by focusing on the more technical and time-consuming tasks, ensuring your garden remains in peak condition.
Key Features of the Programme:
Specialist Pruning: We offer precise pruning services for roses, topiary, shrubs, and other plants that require individual expert care to get the most from each plant year-round.
Plant Feeds and Soil Health: We provide specialist organic plant feeds and conduct regular assessments of your garden’s soil health to ensure optimal growing conditions for your plants with mulches and organic matter.
General Plant Health: We carefully assess plant health throughout the garden, address any issues with pests, diseases, or plants in the wrong place, and provide recommendations to keep your garden thriving.
Topiary Clipping: We can handle detailed topiary clipping to maintain the shape and structure of these key garden features. Typically, low hedging and medium-sized plants; for any larger plants that will require platform access, we can work with our partners.
Larger Hedge, Lawn Management, and Tree Surgery: We can source and organise a grounds maintenance team to handle these tasks with the necessary equipment required. As we deal with the small and precise elements of garden and planting maintenance.
Monthly Reports: After each visit, we provide a detailed monthly report outlining the work carried out and any further recommendations to keep your garden thriving.
This programme can also be combined with our Planting Design Service, where we work alongside your gardener to supply and implement top-up planting or design new planted areas.
Allowing for gradual improvements to your garden over time, all guided by our expert designers in the studio.
Choosing the Monthly Care Programme ensures your garden benefits from specialist support and professional oversight, complementing the work of your existing gardener and enhancing its overall beauty and well-being, delivering a first-class performance.
Quarterly Visits Programme
Our quarterly visit service is perfect for those seeking less frequent yet highly targeted seasonal support. This programme is designed to ensure that key tasks are completed at critical times of the gardening year, allowing us to monitor your garden's progress while providing expert care when it is needed most.
Key Features of the Programme:
Seasonal Focus: Our visits are scheduled to align with the garden's seasonal needs. This ensures essential tasks are completed, such as preparing the garden for winter in the autumn or conducting a second cut back in the spring.
Specialist Pruning: We perform the critical seasonal pruning for roses, shrubs and perennials, including autumn and spring, ensuring your plants look sensational every season.
Spring Dividing: During the spring, we divide plants as needed to encourage healthy growth, optimise space within your planting areas, and create new plants!
Autumn Preparation: We provide vital services such as ‘putting the garden to bed’ for the winter, ensuring it is ready for the colder, wetter months and well prepared to bloom again in the spring.
Seasonal Top-Ups: Our visits include seasonal top-up planting, where necessary, to keep your garden looking vibrant and full as the seasons change, with all plants supplied by our specialist growers.
Quarterly Reports: As with the monthly programme, after each visit we provide a detailed report summarising the work completed and any recommendations for future care or enhancements.
This package can also be combined with our Planting Design Service, allowing you to introduce new planting schemes or refresh your garden’s design with professional input and high-quality plants, helping your garden evolve over time.
With the Quarterly Visits Programme, you receive targeted care at key moments in your garden’s lifecycle, ensuring it remains healthy and showstopping year-round, with minimal work on your part. Like in the theatre, where you get to sit back and enjoy the show with your plants taking centre stage.
Garden Management Consultancy
Our Garden Management Consultancy is ideal for those seeking expert guidance on specific areas of their garden that need improvement or for overall garden management advice. This one-off consultancy provides you with tailored recommendations and solutions to help your garden perform at its best.
Key Features of this Service
On-Off Consultancy visits: We will conduct a thorough assessment of your garden, discuss its current state, and identify areas that require improvement or specialist care.
Tailored Solutions: We work closely with you to understand your garden’s unique challenges and offer customised advice to enhance its health and appearance.
Initial Consultation and Treatment Plan: During the initial consultation, we will assess the garden and provide a detailed treatment plan at a fixed cost, outlining the steps needed to address specific concerns and improve the garden’s overall health and plant longevity.
Optional Follow-Up Visits: If desired, we can schedule follow-up visits to ensure the treatment plan is being implemented successfully and to provide additional support as needed.
This package can also be combined with our Planting Design Service for new planting areas, allowing you to transform or refresh specific sections of your garden with professional design input.
With the Garden Management Consultancy service, you receive expert advice and a clear, actionable plan to address your garden’s needs for you to follow or for your full-time gardener, helping you manage it effectively and ensuring long-term success.
One-Off Garden Care Service
Our One-Off Garden Care Service is designed for clients who require specialist tasks to be completed in the garden without committing to regular maintenance. This service is ideal for those who need expert help for particular garden jobs or one-off visits to tackle specific tasks.
Expert Rose Care: Selecting, feeding, and pruning roses; identifying climbing and rambling roses; how and when to prune and ensuring your roses look stunning at the most important time of the year. From our experience with RHS Gold winners Peter Beales roses, we have the expertise.
Specialist Pruning: We provide expert shrub pruning to maintain each plant's shape and health.
Bulb Planting: Perfect for seasonal planting, we can assist with the strategic placement of bulbs to ensure a mass of vibrant blooms from season to season.
Feeding and Plant Tonics: We supply and apply specialist organic feeds and tonics to boost your plants' health.
Pest and Disease Prevention: We offer targeted treatments to prevent and manage pest infestations and plant diseases, ethically and without harming the environment, protecting your garden from damage.
Rainwater Management: We can provide you with a strategy for harvesting rainwater for your garden and offer advice on irrigation systems, if required.
Plant recommendations for problem areas of unwanted visitors*: We know which plants will help deter rabbits and deer, and for problem areas ranging from heavy clay to dry, sandy soils, we can recommend and supply plants suited to those specific conditions. (Not people.)
Seasonal Planting: We refresh your garden with seasonal plantings, ensuring year-round interest and visual appeal for a show-stopping garden when your guests come to dine al fresco.
Container and Planting Replanting/Rejuvenating: If your planters lack splendour, we can replant and revitalise them with fresh seasonal plants. We can also supply new pots and planters from our suppliers, as well as contemporary, classical, or even antique stone troughs from France.
These One-Off Services are perfect for those looking to tackle specific tasks or issues with their garden. Whether you need help with a particular problem, a challenging season, or a one-time job, we provide the expert support you need.
If you require planting design, border redesign, or plant replacements, please refer to our Planting Design Service for more details, and we would be more than happy to explain this service to you.
Planting Design Service
Our Planting Design Service helps you replenish or completely redesign your existing planting beds throughout the garden with new plants and trees, giving your garden a whole new look, feel, and experience.
Whether you are looking to enhance specific areas or transform your entire garden, we design, supply, and install a new planting scheme to meet your needs, tastes, and desires.
We provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure, and visual stimulation through expert planning, plant selection, planting and establishment, the complete service.
With Planting Design, we handle everything to transform your garden, plus aftercare and management to keep the design thriving.
Key Features of this Complete Service:
Initial Consultation: Our dedicated planting designer will meet with you to discuss your garden’s unique needs and vision for the space. This allows us to create a design specifically tailored to our preferences and, more importantly, to garden soil conditions, aspect, wind and sun exposure, and microclimates, to ensure the right plants for the right place.
Bespoke Design: We establish a planting narrative, shade, or sunshine, woodland or coastal, whichever suits the conditions. We carefully measure your planting beds and soil conditions, and create a custom planting design that incorporates structure, balance, seasonal interest, colour, drama and spectacle throughout the seasons, with trees, shrubs, roses, perennials and bulbs, the full cast of plants to create a show-stopping display.
Plant Supply and Installation: Once the design and budget have been finalised, we source high-quality plants from our trade growers, arrange delivery, and expertly plant each one in its place as specified by the design.
Irrigation and establishment: We offer an establishment service for the first six months, including automated irrigation systems, to help you get off to the best start and achieve a successful transformation.
This process can take up to 3 months to design, source plants and install. Autumn is the best time to plant, so contact us today to start planning.