Questions we’re often asked.

No single stone is best. The choice rests on your house, the style you’re after and how much maintenance suits you.

Sandstone and limestone are both natural: the first is generally warmer and more textured, the second smoother, with a more even colour. Porcelain is a manufactured slab — uniform, dense and simple to clean. We can lay any of the three, and we’re glad to help you weigh them up. Compare the stones.

It is. We give a hedge cut the same weight as a whole-garden makeover. For building work, that covers everything from a handful of sleeper beds or one patio to huge landscaping schemes alongside garden designers. Job sizes, on the landscaping page.

We do both. Some of the biggest landscaping jobs we’ve done were with garden designers, and we redesign gardens ourselves as well. More construction answers.

Both. Alongside regular maintenance contracts, we take on smaller single jobs, like planting or a clearance. How the two compare.

The main trim for most garden hedges comes from late spring through to late summer. Quick growers such as privet and leylandii may need two or more cuts a year to keep neat.

The law protects wild birds’ nests while they’re being used, so in nesting season, from about March to August, hedges should be checked before anyone cuts them. Hedge-cutting with us.

Yes — clearing ground is one of our jobs, from gardens and fallen leaves through to woodland. The brick path on our maintenance page is an example: it had disappeared under long grass before being cut back and cleared.

That depends on what you need the lawn for, and how quickly. Turf is a ready-made lawn on day one, but it must be watered in and given a few weeks to take root before heavy use. Seed is slower to establish and normally goes down in spring or in early autumn. Artificial grass never needs mowing and stays green through the year, though it’s not real, living grass.

All three are part of what we do. About our lawns.