Care home garden maintenance in Dorking

Calm, regular garden care for Dorking care homes, hotels and pubs, planned around residents and guests.

Care home garden maintenance in Dorking is quiet, careful work. The town has several care homes offering nursing, residential and dementia care, and for the people living in them the garden is part of the day: something to look at from a chair by the window, walk round with family at the weekend, or sit out in when the weather allows.

Hotels and pubs need the same attention for different reasons. The White Horse on the High Street has been an inn since about 1750, and at the foot of Box Hill the Burford Bridge Hotel has three acres of gardens along the Mole. Guests notice a tidy garden, and they notice a shaggy one more.

Care home garden maintenance: safe paths and calm visits

In a care home we work around residents, never through them. Visits fit around mealtimes and activities, noisy machinery stays away from windows at quiet times, and staff always know where we’ll be. Paths come first. Dorking’s hills mean many gardens have slopes and steps, and wet leaves on a gradient are a fall waiting to happen, so through autumn we clear paths and edges on every visit. Raised beds and planters are kept weeded and full, so residents who like to potter have something worth tending.

Hotel garden maintenance and pub garden maintenance

For a hotel or pub, the garden is part of what people pay for. We get lawns, borders and terraces ready before the busy months, then keep them there. Beer gardens get hedges trimmed back from tables, gravel kept clear of weeds and borders tidied before the first warm weekend. Riverside grounds by the Mole can stay soft after wet spells, and the Burford Bridge was flooded in 2013, so we time mowing by the ground rather than the calendar. Everything we cut leaves with us.

Care homes and hospitality in Dorking: your questions

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

Can you work around residents living with dementia?

Yes. We keep to agreed areas and times, work calmly and quietly, and follow the home’s guidance on how to respond if a resident wants to chat. We’d always rather pause than cause distress.

Can you get a pub garden ready for summer?

Yes. A spring visit to cut back, weed, edge and tidy, then regular visits through the season to keep it that way. We’ll come before opening so the first customers of the day find it done.

How is commercial work priced?

On a written annual schedule and a fixed price, invoiced monthly or quarterly, with an itemised quote first. If your head office or insurer wants to see our insurance certificates, we’ll send them.