Recent Gardening Projects

This Maidstone front garden must have looked great with fresh bark chips but unfortunately weeds love to grow in bark.It's a situation we've seen in countless gardens but the solution is not too... read more >>

This Barming back garden had been neglected by the owner who was unable to keep it up. The grass was more than a foot high, hedges had become unruly and weeds had spread.The path was all but unaccessible with weeds, grass... read more >>

This conifer hedge in a terraced front garden in Maidstone town centre was getting out of control.It was intruding into the public path and even making the first floor front rooms dark.Conifers can quickly take over if... read more >>

The back garden to this rented Allington bungalow had become overgrown and unloved.The landlords wanted to make it easier for the tenant to maintain. Brambles, virginia creeper, old trellis and various self-sown... read more >>

The new owners of this Victorian garden in Maidstone needed help to see whether there was anything worth saving among the overgrowth. It didn't look very promising.The grass had missed its last cut of the the year... read more >>

This front garden of a bungalow  in Allington in Maidstone had really got out of control. Weeds and grass had taken over. No one could remember what lay beneath the overgrown mess.After half a day's work, the... read more >>

This new summerhouse in a back garden in Bearsted looked great but the installation had meant removing all the existing planting in that corner of the garden.What remained was uneven ground, banked up earth at the back of... read more >>

The bottom of this back garden in Allington had been cleared of unwanted and overgrown trees and shrubs. The customer was then unsure what to do with what remained.Underneath this uninviting and uneven wasteland were,... read more >>

This back garden to a Victorian terrace in Barming in Maidstone needed some plant sorting and a little hard landscaping to add interest, create the impression of more space and make maintenance easier.The large rose on... read more >>

 The owners of this north-facing garden had got the inside of their house sorted but the garden was in dire need of doing-up. The brief was to create some small planting areas but primarily they wanted areas to relax... read more >>

This new-build back garden in Maidstone had an unusable thin strip of dying turf to one side of a path. The garden was small and featureless and needed something to add interest as well as a place to plant some small... read more >>

This back garden to a Victorian terraced house in Maidstone was a bit dark and dingy, muddy in winter and dusty in summer.A dilapidated fence which was more ivy than timber and a rickety gate did not provide much security... read more >>

The end of this garden in Larkfield was a mixture of roughly-laid paving slabs, weeds, old bark and membrane with the odd stray brick chucked in for good measure. The owners didn't quite know what to do with it but... read more >>

This small town garden had got out of control with long grass and weeds covering lovely original brick paths and Russian Vine covering everything else.We came in for a one-off blitz of weeding, strimming, mowing, pruning,... read more >>

This rear garden in Eccles, near Maidstone, was overgrown, weedy and unusable. Underneath the bramble and wild shrubs was an unnattractive straight concrete path with an uneven and weedy patio at the end.After an intitial... read more >>

This large concrete planter in a Maidstone back garden wasn't doing anything to enhance the owner's enjoyment of the space. Features such as these are not to everyone's taste but rather than ignore or... read more >>

This front garden in Bearsted was in need of replanting. A dead ceonothus needed removing and initially the customer had thought to replace that with a laurel hedge as a privacy screen but without blocking out too much... read more >>

The front and back gardens to this Coxheath bungalow had not been tended for some time and the house was going to be put up for sale. In order to show the property to its best advantage the garden needed a makeover.... read more >>

This front garden in Loose, Maidstone had two awkward triangles of grass bordered by ragstone which was difficult to keep neat and tidy and an overcrowded border on the right.We suggested a solution using slate but to... read more >>

This Barming front garden had a small patch of grass which took more energy getting the mower out than actually cutting it. The customer wanted a simple low-cost solution but something a bit different from standard gravel... read more >>

We had been working in this large garden of an Edwardian house in Maidstone for a few months when the customer decided to create an allotment area to grow their own vegetables. The area had obviously been used before but... read more >>

A family in Maidstone with three young children and a large pond needed some peace of mind when they were playing in the garden.The pond is long-established with surrounding shrubs and trees and very much part of the... read more >>

Sometimes for whatever reason your garden can get out of your control and it seems beyond help. This Allington garden had weeds up to four feet tall and somewhere underneath that lot was a lawn and a patio. A few hours... read more >>

An existing client in Larkfield wanted a solution to untidy front borders. They wanted to use pots rather than plant directly into the ground but wanted the pots to be hidden.The client showed us some Google images of... read more >>

The grass had got out of hand and the children's playthings were in danger of being reclaimed by nature.The grass needed strimming and mowing twice but is now back under control. The end of the garden was cleared of... read more >>

An old, slightly off-square raised bed and a few tired old retaining boards needed updating. The customer wanted to be able to work at a comfortable height and make best use of the available space.The site is slightly... read more >>

A neglected and choked-up pond, barely visible paths reclaimed by nature, and a weedy pile of discarded earth. Pond cleared and filled in, paths rediscovered and reclaimed, lawn bed prepared ready for re-seeding. A few... read more >>