Practical garden maintenance advice, seasonal guides and upkeep tips from the Flourish Landscaping team.
We share what we have learned from maintaining gardens year-round across Kingston, Surbiton, Richmond and the wider Surrey area. Advice on lawns, hedges, borders, pruning and the seasonal jobs that keep a garden looking its best, written by horticulturalists who do this work for a living.
For ongoing professional care, see our garden maintenance service. For lower-input planting choices, see our advice on low-maintenance gardens, or use the Flourish Sun Planner to match plants to the aspect they will actually thrive in.
Lawn renovation How to bring a tired, patchy lawn back to life Most domestic lawns need renovation work at some point. Compaction, moss, thinning grass, bare patches and weed pressure are the usual issues, and they almost always come down to the same underlying problems: poor drainage, the wrong cutting regime, insufficient feeding, or shade…
Low-maintenance gardens Beautiful, lasting gardens that ask for less. Designed and planted to work with your soil, your aspect and the time you actually have. A low-maintenance garden is not a no-maintenance garden. It is a garden designed and planted so that the right things happen on their own, and the work that remains is…
Lawn seeding A practical guide to seed mixtures, preparation, sowing rates and aftercare for a UK lawn that lasts. A seeded lawn, given the right preparation and the right mix for the site, produces a deeper, more resilient and more attractive sward than turf, at roughly a quarter of the material cost. The catch is…
Spring garden tidy The essential tidy-up that gets your garden ready for the year ahead. The spring tidy is the single most important week in the garden year. Done well, it sets up the next nine months of healthy growth, sharp edges and abundant flowering. Done badly (or, more often, done too early or too…
Planning your garden transformation A practical guide to commissioning, designing and building a garden you’ll love. A garden transformation is a significant project: significant in budget, in disruption, and in the years of enjoyment that follow. The difference between a transformation that delivers and one that disappoints almost always comes down to what happens before…
Autumn gardening The key jobs to tackle in your garden before winter arrives. Autumn is the most important season in the garden year. The soil is still warm, autumn rain is reliable, and roots establish faster between September and November than at any other time. The bulbs you plant now flower next April. The hedge…
Winter gardening Keep your garden healthy and interesting through the coldest months. Winter is the underestimated season. UK gardens designed properly for it deliver some of the year’s most beautiful effects: low sun striking frost-rimmed grasses and seedheads, fragrant winter shrubs flowering in cold light, polished evergreen structure standing while everything else is dormant, and…
Winter garden prep Get your garden ready for winter and set it up for a strong spring. The work you do between November and February is the most undervalued in the gardening year. Structural pruning is easier and safer with the leaves off. Heavy clay soil is transformed by a single autumn mulch in a…
Spring bulbs for Kingston and Surbiton gardens A homeowner’s guide to five months of colour, from January snowdrops to May alliums. The first burst of colour after a long winter is one of the genuine pleasures of UK gardening. With the right succession of bulbs planted once in autumn, a garden can carry colour from…
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Based in Kingston and Surbiton, we work within a five–mile radius — covering a focused patch of South West London and North Surrey.
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