Looking After Your Garden Through The Seasons


** I am now fully booked for garden maintenance customers for 2023**


If you have a garden you are generally happy with Catherine can come regularly to weed your borders, prune shrubs, spread compost and tidy plants appropriate to the season. She can plant up containers, put in bulbs in autumn for the next spring and put in any new plants you have bought, or can supply suitable ones. 


Catherine can identify the plants you currently have and consider:

  • Do you know what plants you have? Are there ones which only appear in certain seasons, like spring bulbs?
  • Do you like the plants? Are there any that you do not like?
  • Are they growing well or poorly?
  • Are they overgrown and need pruning, reshaping or repotting?
  • Do they flower well?

Catherine doesn't mow lawns or trim hedges as many of her  customers do this themselves or have other specialists to do that particular work.


She can visit you on a regular basis, as frequently as you need. It might be that you have been inspired to get out in the garden regularly yourself, and in that case, we can help once a season to advise what needs doing to the different aspects of the garden or outside space.


Her rate is £18 per hour for regular garden maintenance.

Identifying The Type of Outdoor Space You Would Like

Catherine can visit you and talk about your garden - what's growing in it now, what plants you like and don't like, how you use your space and what you would like it to look like.  Things to consider include:
  • How do you want to use the garden?
  • Where is the sun and shade?
  • Where do you sit?
  • Do children play in the space?
  • Where do you store your bikes, garden equipment, wheelie bins?
  • Do you need privacy? Would you like to cover something unsightly?
  • What plants do you like? Flowering, fragrant, giving food, wildlife attracting? 
 Inspiring Gardens focuses on soft landscaping, using plants, and does not undertake any hard landscaping such as fencing, patios, decking or paths, but ideas and suggestions for these can be discussed.

Creating Your Ideal Outdoor Space

Once I understand how you would like your garden to look I can:

  • suggest the most suitable plants for your needs, and advise you on how to look after them to ensure they keep looking their best and giving you pleasure throughout the changing seasons.
  • prune and reshape existing shrubs so that they are manageable in size and grow well.
  • create new beds and borders, removing weeds, improving soil to give the plants the best start in life
  • source suitable shrubs, perennial plants, annuals, including fruit and vegetables and plant them in borders or containers.
  • suggest the best way to provide attractive storage and extra space for growing through green roofs or walls, or to make a composting area.
  • create a small pond, superb for attracting wildlife, either in the ground or in a container.