A sloping striped lawn and clipped yew hedge in the High Weald

Your local gardener in Copthorne

A Horley team three miles up the road, looking after Copthorne gardens and grounds.

If you’re after a gardener in Copthorne, we’re about three miles away in Horley and have been working round here since 2004. Copthorne grew in layers. There’s the red brick and tile-hung core round the green and Church Road, a big post-war loop of cul-de-sacs, and now Heathy Wood stretching west towards the M23. Each part gardens a little differently, which keeps the job interesting.

Under all of it sits Upper Tunbridge Wells sandstone and siltstone. That weathers into a slightly acidic soil, loamy with a fair bit of clay. It’s fertile, so hedges and shrubs grow hard. It’s acid enough that moss is never far off in a shady lawn. And down in the shallow valley of Copthorne Brook, the ground stays wet well into spring.

Garden services in Copthorne.

What Copthorne gardens ask of us most

Hedges, mostly. The post-war streets are fronted by low walls and hedges, and the big houses out on Copthorne Road sit well back behind tall, tree-lined hedgerows. Add rich soil and there’s a lot of growth to keep on top of. So the commonest booking here is a regular maintenance visit: lawn cut and edged, beds weeded, hedges done in their proper season and the waste taken away. Plenty of the village commutes, so we just get on with it while the house is empty.

Hotels, units and the commercial side of the village

For a village of around 5,500 people, Copthorne carries a fair bit of commercial ground. There are hotels and airport parking near the A264 and the M23, firms of varying sizes at Borers Yard on Borers Arms Road, and St Modwen Park Gatwick beside Heathy Wood. Add schools, care homes, a large churchyard and new shared open space. Those sites get a written annual schedule and a fixed price, invoiced monthly or quarterly. Insurance certificates are there whenever you need them.

Grounds maintenance for Copthorne businesses.

Annual contracts for blocks, offices, schools, care homes, churches and landlords.

Gardening in Copthorne: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

Do you cover all of Copthorne, including Heathy Wood?

Yes. The old village, the post-war streets, the houses along Copthorne Road and the new homes at Heathy Wood. We also work in Crawley Down, Smallfield and Horley, so Copthorne sits right in the middle of our patch.

Is the soil in Copthorne heavy clay?

Partly. It’s loamy and clayey over sandstone, so it’s kinder than the solid clay round Horley in some gardens and just as sticky in others, especially low down near the brook. One visit is usually enough for us to tell you which you’ve got.

What’s the best way to get a quote in Copthorne?

Call 07720 886244 any day except Sunday, between 7am and 6pm. We’ll come round, walk the garden with you and give you a fixed quote for free. Size, access and how often you want us are what set the figure.