1. What’s your area of specialism?
2. How much will it cost?
3. What kind of garden theme should I have?
4. What installations work best in low maintenance gardens?

For residential lawns, you can expect grass cutting to cost around £25 per hour.

The rate of grass growth and the desired height of your lawn determine how often you need to mow. Typically, mowing once a week during the growing season should suffice to keep your lawn healthy. The rest of the time, you can reduce the frequency of cutting to every other week, as necessary.

Healthy trees and shrubs resist disease and insects more naturally.
It is important to pay attention to the health and well-being of your shrubs and trees to avoid them dying back. The foliage alone may not be a reliable indicator of the lack of nutrients and the overall health of your plants.

Trees usually respond best to fertiliser with a 2-1-1 or a 3-1-1 ratio (nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium). Commonly available fertilisers with a 2-1-1 or similar ratio are 18-6-12, 12-6-6, 10-6-4, 10-8-6 and 10-8-4.

Pruning should generally occur after the leaves have ‘flushed’ and hardened, so late spring through summer.

Garden maintenance generally includes lawn mowing and edging, weeding, trimming, and pruning and the clearing up of leaves, especially in the Spring & Autumn.

Gardener responsibilities include monitoring the health of all plants and greenscapes, watering and feeding plants, trimming trees and shrubs, fertilising and mowing lawns, weeding gardens and keeping green spaces and pathways clear of debris and litter.

Warm White (2700K) Similar to halogen-type landscape lighting, it is the most preferred color temperature for landscape lighting. Psychologically, it is thought to be more welcoming and soothing compared to higher color temperatures.

Outdoor LED Lights Aren’t Great At Melting Snow. Those bulbs emit heat, so they handily melt any snow that piles on top of them. Not so with LED bulbs. They’re cool customers, and don’t produce as much heat as halogen or incandescent bulbs do.

Prior to work a utility service survey might become necessary for finding buried pipes and cables. Extremely important to do this in front gardens where present of these services are highly possible.

• Surface irrigation. Water is distributed over and across land by gravity, no mechanical pump involved.
• Localised irrigation.
• Drip irrigation.
• Sprinkler irrigation.
• Center pivot irrigation.
• Lateral move irrigation.
• Sub-irrigation.
• Manual irrigation.

Here are the main differences between Landscape Architects and Landscape Designers. Landscape Architects must be prepared to work on large projects such as public spaces, and be knowledgeable about issues such as grading, constructing structures and drainage. Whereas, a Landscape Designer, on the other hand, typically has more knowledge in different aspects of gardening and specialised plant knowledge.