OUR GARDENING SERVICES
We mainly focus on a few core gardening services. Here you will find posts from these few gardening categories.
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Year round garden maintenance
End of season garden maintenance
We're in mid October and that is the end of season for your garden.. Nature is soon about to go for a winter sleep, like that hedgehog from a photo above. Barbeques and all your garden furniture soon has to find it's space in a garage or other...
Lawn mowing – big or small
leaf clear up and earthworms
Leaf clearing – gardening services in Arborfield
Keeping your hedges neat
LAUREL HEDGE got trimmed - video. Let us know if you see and like the difference ! Laurel hedge before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtyx3dJrO4 Laurel hedge after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkMns4vtcaA And some photos.. [gallery...
Hedge removal
Overgrown conifer hedge removal. Small morning job.. That well kept but unfortunately too big for its space hedge needed to be removed.. It was protruding onto the drivewawy..
Sunday conifer hedge reduction / trim
A little update.. Here's our weekend... Partially entertaining at first then busy with a chainsaw on top of the hedge. Here's what I like to listen to whilst sitting on top of the cut off trunk 😉 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smdNetoPFV0...
Garden hedges cut / garden borders redone / fence erected
Summer's over but weather's still very good and we're certainly not slowing down! In this garden we have: Tidied up the borders, removed all the vegetation, roots, debris and old membrane. Layed down a new weed membrane and filled up these borders...
Hedge cutting specialists
Do you want to make sure your hedge is cut as it should be? Book a hedge cutting specialist @ Tidy Gardens One simple thing when maintening your hedges as I mentioned some time earlier is a regular cut, but make sure you do it right ! It ain't a...
Garden needs a tidy up ?
End of tenancy garden tidy up
Garden tidy up for a tenant When it's time to leave a rented property and hand it back over to the estate agency, usually the tenant is obliged to leave garden in good condition. This certainly was not a good condition so we had been asked...
Garden tidy up – lots of weeding !
Weeding your garden is important and should be done regularly but what if someone didn't have time for it ? Call us in - we'll be happy to help. Here's some photos from today. [gallery link="file" columns="2" size="large"...
Front garden tidy up
We do work in big gardens but we also do work in small ones A small front garden tidied up was a first thing this morning, followed by a much bigger job where we have trimmed lots of tall hedges. [gallery targetsize="full" size="large" columns="2"...
Busy Saturday
Busy busy Saturday .. Done three jobs today ! First one was a general tidy up of a garden which we'll be taking under our wings for fortnight regular maintenance. Customer very happy - hopefully we'll get some reviews from her shortly. Second one...
Old apple tree – pruning
An old apple tree needs a bit of grooming .. but it has to be done over a couple of years When it comes to fruit tree pruning you might think that one season will be enough to bring back a tree from a total mess to a well structured, healthy and...
Fallen tree removal service
Very recent job to dispose of a fallen tree from a garden. Fallen tree removal service - Tidy Gardens
Hedge cutting / trimming – Tidy Gardens
When it comes to hedge maintenance, regular hedge cutting / trimming is the single most important thing to do. Regular hedge trim will make your hedge compact and thick right from the bottom. Why plant a hedge? Hedge can be a perfect garden...
Fruit tree pruning
Apple tree pruning Pictures of "before and after" apple fruit tree pruning. Winter finally and the right time to prune most of fruit trees. We moved here in summer 2013 so this was my first opportunity to sort this tree out. There were loads of...
Tree service
Tidy Gardens - Tree service I was doing some garden maintenance in a Lower Earley / Reading area yesterday. It was in the morning and that was the start of the windy period that last until the morning following day. There was one dead tree in the...
land clearance for land owners
Two similar projects in August 2021. Both to clear out pieces of land. LAND CLEARANCEA privately owned land in central Reading, littered and overgrown. To see what it looked like and what we did please watch this video...
Landscaping. Day with a digger
What's been keeping one man busy from 7am till 7pm ? Master digger operator has been at it since 7am. Finished just after dusk.. I'm happy with the result, customer seems happy ! Would You be happy ? [gallery type="divi" link="file" size="large"...
Brambles – garden tidy up
A garden in Twyford cleared of brambles. Is your garden looking like this ? It's a field of brambles / blackberries. Garden left for a couple of years and needed some help. ...
House sale garden tidy up
Are you thinking of a house sale? Are you thinking about how best to present your house ? but what about the garden ? Do not forget a well presented, tidy, clean garden can make a huge impact upon your potential buyers. Believe me it's not about...
Total garden clear out
HELLO WORLD ... 😉 Here presenting a total garden clear out We know gardens like below exist .. We would like to see it as below.. but we have to start...
Turfing job – small garden in Reading
Small garden landscaping & turfing
More videos about this landscaping project in Reading on our Youtube channel Check it out, subscribe and stay up to date ! https://youtu.be/85BTaJRbMjg
New and better lawn area
Lawn renovation is pretty much possible in any case, but the important thing is - can you wait few months ? If the answer to the above is no and there is a budget for it then why not call us ? Two days of work have seen this front lawn totally...
Busy Saturday
Busy busy Saturday .. Done three jobs today ! First one was a general tidy up of a garden which we'll be taking under our wings for fortnight regular maintenance. Customer very happy - hopefully we'll get some reviews from her shortly. Second one...
Garden returfing
Garden fence work / fencing
Wooden fences ( we should be a bit more specific and say wooden posts ) break quite often - unfortunately, hence we always recommend our customers to consider concrete posts that will give many many years of "life in peace." We do understand...
Final touches in one of the gardens
Fencing services
Garden hedges cut / garden borders redone / fence erected
Summer's over but weather's still very good and we're certainly not slowing down! In this garden we have: Tidied up the borders, removed all the vegetation, roots, debris and old membrane. Layed down a new weed membrane and filled up these borders...
Fence erection / rebuilt in Caversham
Winter plants worth having
Little planting in Tilehurst
Small, shady patch at the front of the house has had a small makeover. Previously two euonymouses and various weeds. We kept euonymouses, added 5 sweet boxes and topped it all with plenty of ajugas. Perfect choice for shady areas like this...
Landscaping. Day with a digger
What's been keeping one man busy from 7am till 7pm ? Master digger operator has been at it since 7am. Finished just after dusk.. I'm happy with the result, customer seems happy ! Would You be happy ? [gallery type="divi" link="file" size="large"...
Planting in Shinfield, Reading.
Busy Saturday
Busy busy Saturday .. Done three jobs today ! First one was a general tidy up of a garden which we'll be taking under our wings for fortnight regular maintenance. Customer very happy - hopefully we'll get some reviews from her shortly. Second one...
Autumn lawn treatments
NOW is the time to rejuvenate your lawns and make your neighbour jealous! 😉 Today we have done our first such treatment this autumn. - aeration - scarification - grass seeding A couple of weeks and results should be visible! If you'd like to see...
Mechanical lawn treatments – aeration and scarification
March! perfect time to reinvigorate your lawn - aeration and lawn scarification Yesterday we had a perfect day to do some mechanical lawn treatments. It's best to do it once a year - more is not really a better option in this case. We had done two...
New and better lawn area
Lawn renovation is pretty much possible in any case, but the important thing is - can you wait few months ? If the answer to the above is no and there is a budget for it then why not call us ? Two days of work have seen this front lawn totally...
Garden returfing
Lawn returfing – Reading
Latest news from Calcot ! Another garden there got a brand new lawn 🙂 What have we done ? - Stripped old grass destroyed by builders. Yes they know how best to do it. And they don't even use a weed killer! - Added 10m3 of compost. Oh yes we love...
Landscaping. Day with a digger
What's been keeping one man busy from 7am till 7pm ? Master digger operator has been at it since 7am. Finished just after dusk.. I'm happy with the result, customer seems happy ! Would You be happy ? [gallery type="divi" link="file" size="large"...
Stumps removal – difficult access
Earlier today we have removed a medium size stump from a very tight corner. Never let a self seeded tree to grow when it shouldn't grow - that's first advise but if you had let it go wild and one day you go "what the heck it's doing here" ... well...
2 apple tree stumps removed in Earley
Today we have removed two apple tree stumps from a garden in Earley / Reading. Stump grinding was only a part of a bigger autumn tidy up in this garden which included general tidy up, lawn cut and hedge trimming. [gallery targetsize="full"...
Another tree stump removed
This time a quick grind of that old-ish tree stump It was already largely consumed by various microbes so was fairly soft and all went pretty quickly. Before and after photos below: [gallery targetsize="full" captiontype="h4" gutterwidth="15"...
Tree stump grinding / removal service in Reading
I would like to share with you some photos and videos of a stump grinding service we provide in Reading A couple of photos of the actual tree stump in question. What's pretty obvious is access. Restricted and difficult. With lots of rubbish /...
