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

Your gardener in East Grinstead

Regular garden care across East Grinstead’s ridge, slopes and valleys, by a team seven miles away.

If you’re after a gardener in East Grinstead, it helps to have one who’s used to hills. The old town sits on a flat-topped ridge between Ashurst Wood and Imberhorne Lane, and most of what’s been built since Victorian times runs down the slopes around it. We’re based seven miles west in Horley, we’ve been gardening since 2004, and the same team turns up at every visit.

The ground changes as you go downhill. East Grinstead is built on the Hastings Beds, a stack of sandstones, silty sandstones and mudstones, and the soils round here swing between sand and clay. One garden drains in an hour after a downpour. The one next door holds water until May. We work with whichever you’ve got.

The town’s history shows in its gardens, too. Behind the timber-framed High Street a few medieval strip gardens still survive. Interwar estates such as Sackfield Gardens, Halsford Green and Brooklands Park have hedges that have had eighty-odd years to thicken up, and the bigger post-war estates spread west and north around Blackwell.

Garden services in East Grinstead.

What most East Grinstead gardens need

Most people book us for regular mowing and hedge cutting, usually as a fortnightly visit, with borders and seasonal jobs added as they come due. The hills shape the work. Sloping lawns need a careful cut, steep banks get strimmed, and waste often has to come uphill to the van. Sandy lawns brown quickly in a dry summer, so we raise the cut. Clay patches stay soft into spring, so we wait. And with woodland wrapped round so much of the town, autumn means leaves. Lots of them.

Commercial grounds across a working town

East Grinstead isn’t only a commuter town. The Birches Industrial Estate in the north west is its biggest business site, and there are care homes, two large secondary schools, churches, old coaching inns on the High Street and a growing number of flats made from former offices. For sites like those we write an annual schedule, agree a fixed price and invoice monthly or quarterly. Insurance certificates are available on request, and quotes are itemised so you can see what you’re paying for.

Grounds maintenance for East Grinstead businesses.

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

Gardening in East Grinstead: your questions

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

Isn’t East Grinstead a long way from Horley?

Not really. It’s about seven miles, well inside the 15 or so miles we cover, and that radius also takes in Felbridge, Crawley Down, Lingfield and Forest Row.

Do I need to be in when you come?

No. We work Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm, and plenty of East Grinstead people are on a London train by then. If we can get into the garden, that’s all we need.

What’s the best way to get a quote?

Call 07720 886244. We’ll come out, walk the garden with you and give you a fixed quote, free of charge. The figure depends on size, access, slope and how often you’d like us.