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.
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 £70
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 schemes
- Soft landscaping
- Horticulturally trained
William Warden
Conservation Contractors
Based: Devizes
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
- Covers Wiltshire and Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire & Oxfordshire
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: veronicagoodenough.co.uk
Telephone: 07771 698 378
Email: goodenoughgardens@gmail.com
Skills/Expertise
- New Gardens
- Improved Layouts
- Regular Maintenance
Joe Verrecchia
Garden consultancy and maintenance
Based: 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
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
- Covers Bradford on Avon to Corsham and Bath
- 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
