Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Frome and surrounding areas
Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Frome and surrounding areas
About Lucy's Gardening Services
My Services
My Services
My Services
I cover areas south of Bath - Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Frome and surrounding areas.
I can offer help to beginner gardeners
Or guidance for a specific task
Or help identify which plants are in your garden.
I can show you skills, from how to snip off deadheads, to how and when to prune shrubs and fruit trees.
Watering, weeding, planting
I cover areas south of Bath - Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Frome and surrounding areas.
I can offer help to beginner gardeners
Or guidance for a specific task
Or help identify which plants are in your garden.
I can show you skills, from how to snip off deadheads, to how and when to prune shrubs and fruit trees.
Watering, weeding, planting,
lawn maintenance, mulching,
how to look after the soil, how to make compost and how to sow seeds and propogate new plants of your own.
I can also give you advice on which plants will be suitable for specific areas of your garden, how to increase biodiversity in your garden, how to garden as sustainably as possible and suggest ideas on water management.
I can offer fresh ideas for your garden and suggest ways to make gardening manageable and, most importantly, enjoyable!
Prices
My Services
My Services
Practical Help (with specific tasks eg. pruning/ planting areas)
£25ph
Advice Session - in your garden. No report.
£50 for the first hour, £30 per hour for further time.
Planting/ Border Design
On-site session to discuss requirements.
Planting plan and hand-drawn design
Price on request. Please call me to discuss.
Advice session & Report:
2 hour
Practical Help (with specific tasks eg. pruning/ planting areas)
£25ph
Advice Session - in your garden. No report.
£50 for the first hour, £30 per hour for further time.
Planting/ Border Design
On-site session to discuss requirements.
Planting plan and hand-drawn design
Price on request. Please call me to discuss.
Advice session & Report:
2 hour session in your garden and a report emailed to you within 5 days £150
Report to include eg. a hand-drawn sketch of your garden, or specific area of garden, with plant names, results of ph soil tests, action plan covering areas discussed on the day and further suggestions/ advice.
For more details, call or email me on
07956 673400
lucy@lucycurwengardening.co.uk
Customer Review
'I am blown away by the service you have provided and the advice and information you have given, thank you so much! Your advice has really motivated me to work on the garden.' KW Radstock
My Story
My Services
My Story
Lucy Curwen
RHS Level 2 Qualified Gardener
Last year, I spent 2 days a week at Lackham College, studying for the RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practices of Horticulture.
I wanted to challenge myself, to increase my knowledge and make sure the gardening skills I am passing on are right up to date.
It was a fantastic year,
Lucy Curwen
RHS Level 2 Qualified Gardener
Last year, I spent 2 days a week at Lackham College, studying for the RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practices of Horticulture.
I wanted to challenge myself, to increase my knowledge and make sure the gardening skills I am passing on are right up to date.
It was a fantastic year, I enjoyed every moment of it!
Although I have only just completed the RHS course, I have been gardening for over 30 years. We moved from a small flat to a large 3 acre garden in 1993. Thankfully 2 acres were paddocks, maintained by horses and beautiful Herefordshire cattle.
The garden area was almost entirely on a slope, with overgrown trees and shrubs of all sorts and the wonderful surprise of a huge bank of snowdrops and daffodils in the spring.
We gradually terraced some areas, giving us plenty of space for children to play football, run around and explore, make dens and play hide & seek.
I created areas of shrubbery, a large herbaceous border and many smaller areas of planting along the side of steps and walls. An area of wild flowers developed naturally on an area of very poor soil, over a period of 5 years. The joy of spotting the first Orchid, or seeing a new species make a home and the range of butterflies attracted to it, was wonderful. Maintain the area and increasing the number of wild flowers required careful management, cutting the grass at just the right time of year - usually very early spring and again in early autumn.
I can't resist buying new plants at gardens we visit, or garden centre visits and I have grown many plants from seeds or cuttings.
I love experimenting.
Not every plant has survived - a strong west wind, north facing and in a frost pocket in the winter months, have been a challenge!
We moved to a new house last year... new house, new garden project! We have brought light in to the house and garden by reducing the height of some hedges and lifted the lower branches to open up the space. I'm very happy to have a garden filled with colour right next to the house, so I can see flowers as soon as I come downstairs in the morning.
My passion is growing flowers for cutting, so I can enjoy the sight and perfume of vases of flowers all around the house and plenty to create small bouquets to give as gifts. I love being able to look at a tiny flower close up, to enjoy it's perfect beauty.. sometimes even when they are wilting! Tulips can be spectacular right until the last petal drops!
I have grown a range of colours of cornflower this year, from white, white and pink, mauve, purple as well as the beautiful blue... they are all stunning!
My mission now is to share my knowledge with other budding gardeners, so they can enjoy the health benefits and joy of gardening as much as I do!