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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 Brothers
Brothers Landscapers

Skills/Expertise

Based: Warminster
Covering Bath, Wiltshire and local areas
Website: www.brotherslandscapers.co.uk
Telephone: 07802 446927
Email: Mark@brotherslandscapers.co.uk

  • Patio specialists – laying new or lifting and relaying existing
  • Hard landscaping
  • Timber fencing
  • Pergolas

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
  • Skilled seasonal pruning
  • 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 £80

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
  • Arenas and Stables
  • Vegetation Management/scrub clearance
  • Weed Control Services
  • MEWP/Cherry Picker Hire

David Badder
D W Badder

Based: Monkton Farleigh
Mobile: 07900 180 239
Tel: 01225 851 642
Email: N/A

Skills/Expertise

  • Dry stone walling
  • Paddock & garden fencing
  • Hard Landscaping
  • Woodland maintenance

Veronica Goodenough
Garden Planning & Design

Based: Atworth
Website: N/A
Telephone: 07771 698 378
Email: goodenoughgardens@gmail.com

Skills/Expertise

  • New Gardens
  • Improved Layouts
  • Regular Maintenance

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

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