Hartnell Gardens
A view of a house, looking from a rear garden, lost in brambles and bindweed with ivy growing up to the gutter line of the first floor.

Service

Clearance and Restoration

Restore and rejuvenate tired and overgrown areas with a one-off clearance or annual session

Bringing Life Back to the Garden

Our garden clearance and restoration service is ideal to get your garden in shape for regular maintenance, or as occasional sessions to keep on top of things.

We understand that gardens naturally want to be wild but to fully enjoy them, they need a bit of taming. However, life can result in the garden becoming a bit out of control but that's where Hartnell Gardens can help.

We can mow the lawn, trim the hedges, weed the flower beds, prune the shrubs, brush-cut overgrown areas, spray stubborn weeds, and do any other garden-related requirements to restore your garden to its former beauty. Qualified to use chainsaws, long-reach pruners, and herbicides, we can trim hard-to-reach branches, saving you the cost of a tree surgeon in some cases.

Our Garden Clearance Process

A green wall of brambles, grapevine branches and vegetation grow above head height in the entrance to a garden.
Before Clearance

Rediscover

With our careful approach, and our focus on saving original plants where possible, we can transform a garden that has become overgrown for whatever reason, be it brambles or nuisance plants.

As licensed waste carriers, we can arrange waste removal and skip hire at competitive prices.

 

Garden cleared of brambles and vegetation, revealing a once covered greenhouse, shed and raised bed around a lawn and patio.
Maintain and Improve

Ready for Restoration

Following your clearance, Hartnell Gardens can provide ongoing Garden Maintenance on a frequency that suits you and your budget.

Also, unlike many other gardening and landscaping companies, we offer a Garden Design service. We can work with you to design the garden of your dreams, and then make those dreams a reality

Our Garden Restoration Process

Whether it's following a major clearance of if your garden lacks colour and interest, we can restore your hedges, flower beds, shrubs, and trees with selective pruning and thinning. With our expert knowledge of how plants and trees respond, we make selective restorative pruning cuts. Sometimes this may seem drastic but it's vital in bringing back fresh new growth and encouraging your plants to flower.

Borders were overgrown with edges indistinguishable from the lawn.
Stage 1

Before Restoration

A tired, overgrown and un-inspired garden, we aim to assess the current plants and spacing, and provide you a quote to bring your garden to a high level of presentation ahead of maintenance or design changes.

We begin works by evaluating the shape and placement of plants, paths and focal points before weeding, pruning and digging starts. Our aim is to bring the garden to a high level of presentation ready for maintenance or our other garden services you may have chosen.

Defined borders with flowering plants and a neat and tidy lawn.
Stage 2

After Restoration

Restored garden features that were once part of the original design and layout including extra work noted in the quote stage. The garden is ready for ongoing maintenance and improvements.

 

A garden with borders full of flowering plants and a lush green lawn.
Stage 3 and Beyond

With Regular Maintenance

Depending on the level of maintenance your require we will tailor a maintenance plan to make the most of your garden.

With our keen eye for design and expert knowledge of plants, we can continually develop your garden, moving plants and balancing and harmonising the borders and beds.

 

Varety of pink, purple and white flowers.
Aftercare

Advice and Consultation

For those who wish to do their own gardening, but would benefit from expert plant knowledge and horticultural guidance following a clearance or tidy, we offer a one-to-one service and written maintenance schedule tailored to your garden.

Changing the Design

We offer a Garden Design and Planting service, working closely with you to design the garden of your dreams, and then make those dreams a reality.

We have contacts with plant nurseries across the southwest and can provide high-quality plants, shrubs and trees of all varieties and sizes at competitive prices

Examples of our clearance and restoration works

A solid mass of matted Ivy stems are peeled back from a brick wall, revealing a brick pattern imprint on the ivy, and a bare clean red brick wall beneath. A red Acer tree grows in a circular flower bed in the centre of stone paving, surrounded by overgrown plants. The result of a clearance, the edges of a stone patio are cleared of overgrown plants, allowing the beauty and shape of the red Acer tree to stand out in the centre. A green wall of brambles, grapevine branches and vegetation grow above head height in the entrance to a garden. Garden cleared of brambles and vegetation, revealing a once covered greenhouse, shed and raised bed around a lawn and patio. A red lawn mower sits amongst very tall grass of an overgrown lawn before a clearance job on a hot Summer day. Lawn cut short to provide a useable garden to enjoy in the Summer. A gardener operating a mini digger, about to remove a large tree stump and roots. An overgrown lawn, vegetable area and borders in a garden during Autumn. A beautiful garden full of colour from flowering roses and herbaceous perennials, surrounds a healthy green lawn on a late Spring day. A tangle of metal chain link and timber fencing, ivy and overgrown trees, leans precariously into a public footpath on a garden boundary. New fencing and bamboo screening constructed along a garden boundary, adjacent to a footpath provide security, space and light following a clearance. A hydrangea plant with bare stems during the Winter, full of dead, damaged and crossing branches before a restoration prune. A bright pink hydrangea flower, larger than a hand shown for scale, grows vigorously above lush green leaves as a result of restorative pruning. A 30 metre long red brick wall bordering a driveway is covered in ivy, growing out of a weedy gravel border. A 30 metre red brick wall running along a driveway is clear of ivy and the border below is weed free and replenished with new golden gravel. A view of a house, looking from a rear garden, lost in brambles and bindweed with ivy growing up to the gutter line of the first floor. The view of the rear of a house from a garden that has been cleared of vegetation, with ivy taken off the house walls and a patio and shed now accessible. A black plastic compost is the only object visible amongst a garden entirely filled with overgrown ornamental flowers and Raspberry plants. A black compost bin sits amongst a thinned out flower bed with soil and garden paths now visible and an uncovered ornamental Rose. A manicured flower border next to a front lawn on the corner of a house with trimmed plants, and freshly turned soil. A rockery of assorted small boulders which have become overgrown with invasive wild onion bulbs, with no soil visible. A small area of freshly turned soil in preparation for lawn after a rockery and invasive bulbs have been removed.

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