As Landscape Gardeners, we enjoy a lot of outdoors weather. In the spring and summer months our customers and friends often remark on their envy of us as outdoors workers… soaking up the rays as they sit looking longingly out of their office windows. Then leaves begin to fall and the temperature drops, days become shorter and our glamorous tans fade away along with the envy of our fellow office workers.
As the number of hours spent in your garden per week plummet in direct correlation with the temperature during these months, it is easy to push any thoughts of your garden’s existence out of your head completely until spring. As is usually the case, spring joyfully skips round the corner and presents you with a stark reminder that your garden isn’t just a cold place full of leaves covered in ice, it is something that needs attention once more. The plans you had last year come racing back and soon phone calls are being made to Landscape Gardeners across London. However, there may be a problem: this being a well-known annual phenomenon amongst Landscape Gardeners means that the work load increases for us dramatically, as a result the diary gets filled up and so does the waiting period for numerous people’s work to begin. What’s more, Landscapers may even quote higher as business is particularly fruitful this time of year and there is less of a need to be competitive.
So, if you’re on a tight budget then it might be an idea to get in there as early as possible, this might require thinking outside the box a little and having the work done in the dead of winter – we do still operate in these cold, dark months no matter how cold it is! This way your garden will already be an image of incandescent beauty underneath the new spring sun and you will be making use of your new outdoor space whilst others will still be waiting in line for the work to begin. Also, as mentioned above, if you get the work done in winter you will most likely get a cheaper quote.
So there you have it, winter isn’t all about staying indoors, spare a thought for your garden and plan ahead, it might be more beneficial than you think.