Category: Gardener Blogs

Marcus Richardson from Ed’s Garden Maintenance has recently had an interesting project.

The customer claimed to have little gardening skills but loved spending time in the garden. The brief was to come up with ideas to give the front and back garden a modern makeover, with a natural look to compliment the surrounding plantation and to create a garden with symmetrical clean lines and that requires little maintenance.

Marcus decided for the front garden to lay new turf, create a brick edging and add some gravel and shrubs. The back garden was more of a challenge as it was very steep and needed to be terraced. Marcus started by rebuilding the steps, installing a deck on the top tier and laying turf. The next step was to remove the shed and build a brick BBQ, South African style to retain the privacy that was provided by the shed. The decking was expanded to tie in with the rest of the garden and over the next few months Marcus will plant more shrubs to give a more secluded feel.

The customer said “I have been delighted with the result and I am looking forward to spending more time in the garden next summer.”

Marcus Richardson runs his own Ed’s Garden Maintenance business in the Wokingham area. If you are interested in your garden having a makeover please contact Ed’s.

John Marshall from Ed’s Garden Maintenance Guildford has transformed several gardens in the last month by laying down new turf in preparation for next summer.

John’s most recent project was to clear the site of gravel, level and turf 100 m sq of lawn.

If you are interested in having a new lawn please contact Ed’s Garden Maintenance and we will be happy to send someone out to give a free quote.

A town house garden has recently been transformed by Rodney from Eds Garden Maintenance. His remit was to create a relaxed seating area with the minimum amount of maintenance – I think the results speak for themselves. Rodney and some other Ed’s operators are happy to take on landscaping work so please contact us at Ed’s to find out more. The start of the clearing

Ed’s Garden Maintenance in Brighton & Hove has started trialing a unique new lawn feed and moss control product.

Manager Nick Fellows heard about this on Gardener’s Question Time and was excited by the fact that you do not need to rake out the ugly dead black moss that you are left with when using ordinary weed and feed products.

The product contains harmless bacteria that actually eat the dead moss! It is also Organic and contains a three-month slow release fertilizer – much longer than usual.

Lawn mowing can take place as normal while the product gradually does its work.

We will update as the trial progresses.

Some may say that to have 4 people and a rather large crane involved are a little bit overboard for a tree but this was no ordinary tree, this was a 150 year old olive tree, direct from Italy, weighing over a tonne. And it was due to have a new home in a leafy Richmond.

I remember getting the call from the client saying he had just bought an Olive tree and could I help him to plant it, yeah no problem I said, a few phonecalls down the line and I started to realise that I couldn’t just pick this up and plant it in the ground.

So a full size crane was hired, we got digging, then the tree was elevated over the top of the roof of the house and precision dropped into the perfect hole we had created and filled with all the neccesary ingredients to give in the best start over here, a mixture of feed, sand, gravel and high grade compost were all the the list.

When finished and perfectly in situ it looked like the tree had always been there, the next step is to create a bed of beautiful Lavender and Rosemary to make it feel more at home.

The Zimbabwean Achievers Awards have been set up to “recognise Zimbabweans throughout the UK who have pushed the limits against all the odds to raise the Zimbabwean flag high and do both themselves and their fellow countrymen proud” according to the website. When I received the call notifying me of my nomination I was knee deep in well rotted horse manure, and feeling anything but the entrepreneurial business woman flying her national flag high! It is an incredible honour to be nominated by this burgeoning bud of positive Zimbabweans who are striving to make a difference here in the UK.