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Garden Maintenance NZ

A garden that stays looked after.

Garden maintenance is how weeds, leggy shrubs and leaf-filled beds stay off your to-do list. Spruce keeps on top of it with regular visits or a one-off tidy: weeding, pruning and clearing, so the garden looks cared for all year. Tell us about it and we'll send a price.

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Our garden services

Lawns, hedges and clean-ups, all in one place.

Garden maintenance is the regular care. Lawn mowing, hedge trimming and clean-ups are here too, booked on their own or on the same visit.

Garden · Lawns

Lawn Mowing

Regular or one-off mows, edges trimmed and paths blown clear, overgrown lawns included.

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Hedge Trimming

Hedges cut to shape, tops and sides, from low borders to boundary hedges, clippings taken away.

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Garden Clean Up

Overgrown sections cut back, weeded, mowed and cleared, before a sale, a move or a fresh start.

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Regular or one-off

Garden care that fits the garden.

Some gardens need an hour every fortnight. Others need a solid day twice a year. Tell us what yours is like and we'll suggest the visit that keeps it looking right.

One-off tidy

A catch-up for a garden that's got ahead of you, before visitors, or at the change of season.

  • Beds weeded
  • Shrubs trimmed and shaped
  • Edges cut and paths swept
  • Green waste taken away
Year-round

Regular maintenance

A visit every week, fortnight or month, doing the jobs that stop a garden getting away.

  • Weeds out before they seed
  • Pruning at the right time of year
  • Leaves and debris cleared
  • Lawns and hedges on the same visit

Seasonal jobs

The bigger jobs that come round once or twice a year.

  • A spring tidy and fresh mulch
  • Autumn leaf clearing
  • Perennials cut back
  • Bark or mulch spread on beds
How we look after a garden

Small jobs, done often, save the big ones.

Most garden problems start small: a weed left to seed, a shrub not cut back after flowering, leaves left to rot on a path. Regular care catches them early.

Weeds out before they seed. Pulled or dug out by the root where we can, so fewer come back next time.

Pruning at the right time. Shrubs cut back after they flower, not before, so you don't lose next season's show.

Beds edged and mulched. Clean edges and a layer of mulch or bark keep weeds down and hold moisture in over summer.

Leaves and debris cleared. Paths, decks and drains kept clear of leaves, so nothing turns slippery or blocks up.

Everything taken away. Green waste bagged and taken with us, not left in a heap behind the shed.

What's included

What a garden visit includes.

Every visit is built around your garden, but these are the jobs that make up most of it. Anything else, ask and we'll price it.

Weeding: beds, borders and the cracks in paths, cleared by hand.
Light pruning: shrubs and small trees trimmed back into shape.
Deadheading: spent flowers cut off so plants keep flowering.
Edges: bed and lawn edges cut clean.
Leaves and debris: raked from beds, lawns, paths and decks.
Mulch and bark: spread on beds to hold moisture and keep weeds down.
Green waste: bagged up and taken away when we go.
A walk round before we go: so you know what's been done and what's coming up.
Pricing

What garden care costs.

Gardens vary even more than houses, so we price yours rather than guess. Tell us about it and we'll send a price before anything's booked.

Size

How much garden there is, and how many beds and borders.

How much needs doing

Weeding only, or pruning, edging and mulching as well.

How often

Regular visits keep each one shorter, because nothing's had time to get away.

Green waste

How much there is to bag up and take away.

Access

Steps, slopes and narrow paths add time.

Mulch and bark

Whether the beds need a fresh layer.

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A few photos by text or email help us price it faster.

How it works

How booking garden care works.

Get in touch, get a price, and we'll take it from there.

  1. Step 01

    Get in touch

    Call, text or email, or use the form on our contact page. Tell us where you are and what the garden needs.

  2. Step 02

    Get a price

    We'll send a price and the first day we can start. A real person replies within one business day.

  3. Step 03

    We get to work

    Weeding, pruning and tidying, with the green waste taken away at the end.

  4. Step 04

    Keep it going

    Set up regular visits, or get in touch again at the next change of season.

Common garden jobs

Garden care for every kind of garden.

From a couple of beds to a full section, here's what garden maintenance is often booked for.

Regular garden care

Fortnightly or monthly visits that keep beds weeded and shrubs in shape all year.

Weed control

Beds taken back to soil and mulched, so the weeds don't come straight back.

Getting ready to sell

Beds weeded, edges cut and bark refreshed before the listing photos.

Rental properties

Gardens kept tidy between tenants, or brought back before a new one moves in.

Seasonal clean-ups

Spring and autumn jobs: cutting back, clearing leaves and fresh mulch.

When the garden gets too much

For people who love their garden but would rather not do the heavy work any more.

FAQ

Garden maintenance FAQs.

The things people ask most about getting a gardener in.

It depends on the size of the garden, how much needs doing and how often we come. Tell us about it, or send a few photos, and we'll give you a price before anything's booked.
Yes. Weeding is most of what regular garden care is. We pull weeds by hand or dig them out by the root, and a layer of mulch afterwards helps stop them coming straight back.
It depends on the garden. A small, established garden might only need a visit a month. A bigger one, or a garden full of roses and annuals, does better with a fortnightly visit through spring and summer.
Yes. Weeds, prunings and leaves are bagged up and taken away when we go, unless you'd like to keep some for the compost.
It depends on the plant. Most flowering shrubs are best pruned just after they finish flowering, and most evergreen shrubs are fine to trim in spring and again in late summer. We'll time the pruning to what's in your garden.
Yes. Lawn mowing and hedge trimming can be done on the same visit, so the whole section's done at once.
No. As long as we can get into the garden, we can get on with it. Tell us about gates, pets and anything we should leave alone.
The garden you want, without the weekends.

Tell us about the garden and we'll send a price and the first day we can start. Call, text or email, whichever suits.

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