Local Garden Support
Here’s a list of people who use us commercially. We are pleased to be able to give you this list, but we cannot offer endorsements or recommendations – we’re all different and seek different qualities in the people we work with.
Our list includes:
- Garden design and landscaping
- Garden maintenance
- Tree surgery and surveys
- Fencing
- Hard landscaping & patios
Please say you spotted their name on the Downside Nursery website when you make contact.
Annie Meier Landscapes
Based: Corsham
Covering: within 40/50 miles of Corsham (further for larger projects)
Website: anniemeierlandscapes.com
Instagram: @anniemeierlandscapes
Mobile: 07949 974 853
Email: annie@meier.co.uk
Skills/Expertise
- Garden Designer (fully trained Landscape Architect)
- Experience of estates, large gardens and smaller town gardens
- Full garden re-design
- Specialist in Planting Plans and Planting Design
- Garden planting consultancy
- Help sourcing plants in large numbers for big schemes
- Help finding gardeners/landscape contractors etc.
Mark Tyrie
Bradford on Avon Garden Services
Based: Bradford on Avon
Website: N/A
Telephone: 07748 118 187
Email: tyriemark@hotmail.com
Skills/Expertise
- Garden planning and design
- Planting and regular garden maintenance
- Highly-skilled seasonal pruning – 25 years’ experience
- Garden advice and consultancy service, RHS trained
Charlotte Howard
Capability Charlotte
Based: Devizes.
Covering: Bath and Wiltshire
Website: capabilitycharlotte.com
Telephone: 07850 065 470
Email: info@capabilitycharlotte.com
Skills/Expertise
- Garden design and advice with a focus on low maintenance and biodiversity
- Greenery Stylist
- Planting advice service
- Mentoring to new gardeners
- Horticulture and garden design Lecturer
- One hour “no frills” garden advice for £90
Tom Murphy
Compass Garden & Landscape Design
Based: Bradford on Avon
Website: compassgardendesign.co.uk
Telephone: 07920 051 549
Email: office@compassgardendesign.co.uk
Skills/Expertise
- Garden design and planning
- Planting consultation & design
- Soft & hard landscaping
- Plant supply
- Estate management consultancy
- Horticultural expertise
- Wildlife & rain gardens
- Child-friendly sensory gardens
- Bespoke garden features
William Warden
Conservation Contractors
Based: Devizes
Covering: Wiltshire and Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire & Oxfordshire
Website: conservation-contractors.co.uk
Telephone: 07889 461 358
Email: info@conservation-contractors.co.uk
Skills/Expertise
- Tree surgery – reduction/removal/pollarding – ARB approved
- Specialist management of Ash Die-Back infected trees and dangerous roadside trees, removed safely and efficiently by grapple saw
- Tree inspection/surveys and hazard/risk assessment
- Fencing and Gates – domestic/commercial/equestrian/security
- Biodiversity Net Gain – delivering landscaping solutions with our excellent ‘can do’ and common sense approach
- Groundworks, including watercourses, ponds and rivers
- Equestrian Arenas and Stables
- Vegetation Management/scrub clearance
- Weed Control Services including solar farms
- Equipment Hire including Grapple Saw, ROBOCUT T500 and MEWP/Cherry pickers
Joe Verrecchia
Garden consultancy and maintenance
Based: Bath
Covering: Bath and surrounding villages
Website: jvgardening.co.uk
Telephone: 07769 706 371
Email: jvgardening@gmail.com
Skills/Expertise
- Placement and management of trained garden staff
- Year-long garden maintenance
- Planting
- Topiary and hedge work
- Herbaceous borders and shrubbery
- Lawn care
- Pruning including orchards
Andrew Wilson
Handy Plant Garden Maintenance
Based: Corsham
Covering: Bradford on Avon to Corsham and Bath
Website: N/A
Telephone: 07484 696 285
Email: N/A
Skills/Expertise
- RHS Qualified & 40 years’ experience
- Lawn care
- Hedge cutting
- Border maintenance-mulching & weeding
- Planting
- Pruning, including fruit trees
- One off jobs to regular weekly or monthly support
David Wakely
Mr Wakely’s Wonderful Gardens
Based: Westwood
Covering: Westwood, Freshford, Bradford-On-Avon and other local areas.
Website: N/A. References can be supplied on request.
Telephone: 07950 663 719
Email: davidwakel986@gmail.com
Skills/Expertise
- 35 years’ experience with turf care and management as a Greenkeeper, transferring to my own business 3 years ago.
- Mowing and lawn maintenance, including treatments and renovations.
- Hedge cutting and some tree work.
- Weeding and planting.
- Big tidy up or regular maintenance (annually, monthly, fortnightly or weekly)
- Environmentally conscious, battery operated (EGO) equipment to minimise noise and pollution.
Kevin Hamblin
Quality Landscapes
Based: Trowbridge
Website: N/A
Telephone: 01225 354 071
Mobile: 07982 022 445
Skills/Expertise
- Hard landscaping/patios
- Walls, Decking & Fencing
- Ponds and pergolas
- Turfing
- Dry Stone Walling
Rosie Nottage
Rosie Nottage Garden Design Ltd
Based: Bath
Website: rosienottage.com
Telephone: 07967 316259
Email: design@rosienottage.com
Skills/Expertise
- Planting design
- Garden edit and head garden consultancy
- Overall landscape and structural design
- Lighting design
- Estates and rural gardens
- Small town gardens
- Vegetable gardens, permaculture and edible forest gardens
- Child friendly spaces
- Low maintenance gardens
Karen Knowlton
The Garden Goddess Garden Design Ltd
Based: Bath
Website: thegardengoddess.co.uk
Telephone: 07796 795 319
Email: thegardengoddess@icloud.com
Skills/Expertise
- Garden design development and advice
- Planting plans and work schemes
- Horticultural consultations
- Pruning specialist (fruit to topiary)
- Wildflower planting
- Environmental Planting Design
- Edible Forest / Orchard Design
Virginia Garaux
Virginia Garaux Garden Design
Based: Between Bath and Frome
Covering: Somerset, Wiltshire, Cotswolds and London
Website: VirginiaGarauxGardenDesign
Telephone: 07950 825767
Email: virginia.garaux@gmail.com
Skills/Expertise
- Gardening fairy godmother – fixed fee service injecting fresh energy and cost-effective solutions for the whole garden or focused on a specific problem area
- Full garden design projects, working on principles of sustainibllity and biodiversity, from large country gardens to small courtyards
- Planting design projects that reflect the client’s wishes, realistic maintenance levels and the increasing impact of climate change
- Gardening advice and hands-on, “how to” sessions tailored to your gardening needs