Cranston Estate Gardening Schedule
Total of 21 visits per year
Visits every two weeks March to October (inclusively) and then every four weeks
November to February (inclusively)
On-going maintenance work:
- Mowing of all lawn areas
- Removal of any small tree saplings
- Keeping hedges shaped, strong and neat
- Keeping vegetation off the pathways, roads and car parks
- Raising the canopy of the trees (under one storey high)
- Strimming around areas where the mowers can’t reach e.g. along fence lines,trees etc
- Edging beds
- Seasonal digging over of the plant beds
- Reducing the height of shrubs to below window cill levels and making sure parking signs & other signs are visible
- Seasonal watering of the lawns
- Reseeding areas of the lawn when needed
- Applying organic maxim lawn feed twice/three times a year
Careful seasonal pruning and dead heading - Plant summer and winter bedding plants (pansies, petunias)
- Removal of dead or diseased plants
- Weeding beds and paved areas with organic weeding and careful use of commercial strength ‘Round-up’ weed killer
- Pruning of any plants (under one storey high) that could pose a threat to building structures, fences, or are leaning against the side of the building/fences
- Seasonal pruning of certain perennial plants to encourage new strong seasonal
growth. Dividing and replanting as appropriate and clearing spring flowers after flowering - Keeping fence boundaries free from encroaching vegetation
Watering the plants
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