Neatly mown front lawns along a quiet residential street

Your local gardener in Smallfield

A Horley team two and a half miles away, looking after Smallfield’s clay gardens and green verges.

If you’re looking for a gardener in Smallfield, we’re about two and a half miles away in Horley. That’s close enough to nip over on a dry morning and be gone before the rain. We’ve been trading since 2004, and the same team comes every visit, so after a season or two we know which of your borders sits wet and which gate sticks.

Smallfield wasn’t really a village until Victorian times. Before that it was farms, a few big houses and open common. Most of what stands here now went up in the last century: post-war homes, 1950s streets like Woodside Grange, the 1970s and 80s houses on Weatherhill Common, and the Canadian estate built where the wartime hospital stood. Nearly half the homes in the parish are detached, and plenty sit on generous plots.

Garden services in Smallfield.

Tall yew hedge cut flat around an arched gate

What Smallfield gardens are up against

Clay, mostly, and water. Surrey County Council’s flood report describes the village as sitting in a shallow valley on Weald clay, with the Weatherhill Stream running through its centre and west. Clay drains slowly, so lawns stay soft well into spring and moss moves in. Then a dry July sets it hard and it cracks. Hedges and shrubs love the fertility, which is why most people here book grass cutting and hedge trimming first, usually on a fortnightly visit that takes in the borders as well.

The parish’s neighbourhood plan talks about open front gardens and green verges as part of the village’s character. We’d agree. A crisp edge along a front lawn does more for a Smallfield street than almost anything else you could plant.

Commercial grounds in a village setting

The commercial grounds work here is varied: blocks of flats and their shared gardens, business units on Chapel Road, the two schools on Wheelers Lane and Redehall Road, the old churchyard down at Burstow, and the parish’s green spaces. For any of those we write an annual schedule, agree a fixed price, and invoice monthly or quarterly. Insurance certificates are available whenever you need them.

Grounds maintenance for Smallfield businesses.

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

Gardening in Smallfield: your questions

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

Do you cover the rest of Burstow parish too?

Yes. Weatherhill Common, Keepers Corner, Shipley Bridge and the lanes round Burstow are all well inside our patch, which runs about 15 miles around Horley. The bigger plots out there usually need longer visits, and we’ll plan for that.

Will you mow after the village has flooded?

Not until the ground has recovered. We don’t cut wet or frozen grass, and a lawn that’s been under water needs time to firm up. We’ll move the visit to the next workable day and let you know.

How do I get a quote for my garden?

Ring 07720 886244, Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm. We’ll come and look at the garden and give you a free, fixed quote. What it comes to depends on size, access and how often you’d like us.