Plants and planting

Plants and planting

EVERY BEAUTIFUL GARDEN STARTS WITH THE RIGHT PLANTS IN THE RIGHT SPOTS

We can provide you with your desired plants. We can source them and plant them in.
We can also design a planting scheme based on your likes.
Be it a single feature plant or a list of different varieties – Tidy Gardens have know-how and will get you these at the best possible prices.

Just get in touch with us. We’ll be happy to help


Garden Maintenance in Reading – Season 2026 Begins

Garden Maintenance in Reading – Season 2026 Begins

Garden Maintenance in Reading – Season 2026 Begins

As the 2026 gardening season begins, we would like to say a big thank you to all our customers across Reading and the surrounding areas.

At Tidy Gardens, we are fortunate to continue working with many loyal clients whose gardens we have been maintaining for years — and in some cases for well over a decade. Long-term relationships like these mean a lot to us. We believe that reliability, consistency and attention to detail are the most important parts of good garden care.

Many of the gardens we maintain today are gardens we started working on many years ago. The fact that customers stay with us for so long tells us we are providing the kind of service they need and trust.

Regular Garden Maintenance in Reading

These days, regular garden maintenance in Reading is the main part of our work and the service most of our customers rely on.

A well-maintained garden requires ongoing care throughout the year. Our maintenance visits are designed to keep gardens looking tidy, healthy and enjoyable in every season.

Typical garden maintenance work includes:

  • Lawn mowing and lawn care
  • Looking after garden borders, including weeding and shrub cutbacks
  • Hedge trimming and shaping
  • Tree pruning where required
  • Keeping paths, patios and other hard surfaces clean and tidy
  • General garden upkeep and seasonal garden care

After each visit we also take care of green waste removal, unless the customer has a council garden waste bin that we can use.

Our aim is simple — to keep gardens clean, healthy and easy to enjoy.

Long-Term Garden Care

Many of our customers prefer regular garden maintenance visits rather than occasional work. This allows us to properly manage the garden through the seasons and prevent it from becoming overgrown.

We look after gardens of all sizes, including:

  • Family gardens
  • Small town gardens
  • Rental properties
  • Gardens for landlords or busy homeowners

Regular care keeps everything under control and prevents larger problems from developing later.

One-Off Garden Jobs

Alongside regular maintenance, we also carry out one-off garden work in Reading when needed.

This can include:

  • New lawn installation
  • Garden clearances and heavy weeding
  • Cutting back overgrown shrubs and hedges
  • Stump removal
  • Seasonal tidy-ups after winter or before summer

Sometimes a garden simply needs a reset — a one-off visit to bring everything back into shape.

Planting and Garden Improvements

We are also happy to help with planting and garden improvements.

  • Installing plants supplied by the customer
  • Advising on suitable plants for your garden
  • Sourcing plants and carrying out full planting

Adding new plants can transform the look of a garden and make the space far more enjoyable.

Garden Fencing

Our landscaping work currently focuses mainly on garden fencing installations and repairs.

We install and repair:

  • Wooden fences
  • Concrete fence systems
  • Metal fencing

A well-built fence improves both the appearance and privacy of a garden while also helping define the space.

Local Garden Maintenance Service

Tidy Gardens is a local gardening service based in Reading, and we work throughout the surrounding neighbourhoods.

Being a local business means we aim to provide a reliable and friendly service that customers can depend on year after year.

Many of our customers come through word of mouth and recommendations, which we always appreciate.

Get in Touch

If you are looking for garden maintenance in Reading or need help with a one-off garden project, please feel free to get in touch.

We would be happy to discuss your garden and see how we can help.

Make your garden a space to enjoy.

Request a Garden Quote

Winter plants worth having

Winter plants worth having

Attractive and beautiful winter plants ?

Winter in your garden doesn’t have to be grey, leafless and boring. With the right planting you can make it even more attractive in winter than it is in the summer !

Evergreen

Evergreen plants play a vital role in garden structure. Not on their own but in connection with the right underplanting you will have a beautiful garden all year round !

Colour

Yes there are plants that flower beautifully in late autumn, early winter. See some on this page below. However it’s not just about the flowers. Some shrubs have gorgeous and colourful stems for example.

Fregrance

Smell .. most summer flowers give off amazing scents, so it’s easy in the summer. For winter there’s also few less known.. read on

Tidy Gardens – Reading

Gardener in Reading

Tidy Gardens – London

Gardener in London

The most beautiful plant I always admire at the end of gardening season, to me surely it is “NERINE BOWDENII”

It’s colour is out of this world, especially around the grey reality of autumn.
It’s a bulb which multiplies and grows each season giving even more colour each following year.

One warning if you decide to plant it. Don’t burry it deeply. It’s bulbs need to be right at the surface.

NERINE BOWDENII in flower

NERINE BOWDENII in flower

NERINE BOWDENII and it’s bulbs

See below more of the plants I find most powerful when it comes to winter attractiveness

Heathers

Late autumn / winter flowers

Cyclamen

Late autumn / winter flowers

Sarcococca

Winter flowers plus berries. Black berries come with sarcococca confusa, red berries you will find on sarcococca ruscifolia.
The most amazing and sweet fragrance when you’re around them in Late December / January in the UK.

Now some more plants that others would recommend for winter gardens however these are rather early spring show offs .. Flowering from around March in the UK.

Forsythias

flowers March through April

Witch hazel

Late winter / early spring flowers

Quince

In the Uk it come give gorgeous blossom between April and May.

Cornus – dog wood

Flowers in the summer but very distinct and brightly coloured stems throught the winter make it a quite attractive winter shrub.

Now… if the above is new to you, give it a go and try these in your garden ! Alternatively if you’d like to have a winter garden or a winter border created for you then just get in touch ! We will do it for you.

land clearance for land owners

land clearance for land owners

LANDS to RECOVER

Two similar projects in August 2021. Both to clear out pieces of land. LAND CLEARANCE

A privately owned land in central Reading, littered and  overgrown. To see what it looked like and what we did please watch this video

Another overgrown, weedy and littered land this time in Pangbourne needs some clearance work. Video below.

Garden needs a tidy up ?

Garden needs a tidy up ?

One day garden tidy up

Have you ever wondered what a team of professional gardeners could do in a day ?
Check out more garden tidy ups by our team !Read what our customers said about us

It wasn’t our first visit to this garden. We have done a tidy up in the same garden  about three season ago. Back then it wasn’t much better and generally our work involved mowing, strim, cut back and brambles uproot. I have to say it isn’t a great feeling when you see the same garden in such a horrible state again! after you’ve given your 100% to really make it nice and managable but, having said that quote was given and job was accepted.

This year the work here involved:

  • bring grass to a manageable level
  • trim hedges
  • trim / cut back various shrubs
  • prune some smaller trees
  • remove ( uproot ) all coarse grasses from the front garden as well as from half of the back garden
  • remove ( uproot ) all the brambles in front and back gardens.
  • tidy up afterwards
  • take away all green waste

 

I hope photos will tell you more about our day in this garden. HERE WE GO

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