• Free Consultation and Quotations
• Professional Gardeners
• Skilled Gardeners
• Garden Maintenance Services
• Garden Restoration Services
• Tree Care Services
• Plant Care Services
• Fully Insured

Gardening and Grounds Maintenance

We are a team of skilled, qualified gardeners experienced in garden and grounds maintenance. We provide domestic and commercial clients with a comprehensive garden service to suit each individual need and request.

Services include grass cutting, tree and shrub pruning, hedge trimming, plant care, planting, and mulching.

Offering our customer's free professional advice and quotations we are committed to providing an efficient and friendly service at a competitive price whilst maintaining the highest quality of work.

Garden Maintenance and Lawn Care

Lawn maintenance can be tiring work so let our experienced gardeners manage and do the hard work for you. Our team of

With our passion comes commitment as we strive to fulfil and deliver the best possible service unique to our clients. Our skilled gardeners can save you time and the hard work, helping to put your mind at rest that your request and needs are being met at an affordable cost.

With a wealth of skilled hands on gardening knowledge we are well equipped to tackle most jobs. We can assist and advise you on practical and cost efficient garden and grounds maintenance plans, and make suggestions for improvements to maximise plant health and resources.

For lawns that are in really bad shape and full of weeds, then we do offer a one off treatment using selective herbicides to get the initial weeds under control. This will make the process much easier in the future by digging them out when the weeds appear.

Garden Maintenance and Pruning

To maintain the health and safety of mature trees and shrubs pruning is required to remove any dead or dying branches. The thinning and removal of overcrowded, live branches will reduce wind resistance and storm damage.

At Benita's Garden Services, we have trained gardeners who are experienced in this type of work who can assess and put forward a pruning plan.

When thinning branches of a tree, we concentrate on the outer parts of the canopy leaving the interior branches as much as possible. To improve the tree's form and shape, the removal of the crown or individual branches maybe required, if the tree is interfering with objects or structures. If the tree is weak, pruning will improve the overall structure.

Raising the canopy by removing the lower branches can help to increase the amount of light for grass, ground cover and plants to grow beneath the tree.

We evaluate your tree's condition and then work out the type of pruning required so we can balance your goals and those of managing plant health and safety.

Pruning trees when they are young and growing fast is important to ensure a strong framework for future growth. In the garden landscape where trees have light and space to grow, many species develop multiple stems that are prone to failure. This is because lower branches tend to grow at the same rate as the leaders resulting in weak attachments that are also likely to fail later on. With this type of pruning, unless multiple stems are desired, we focus on maintaining a single dominant stem. Branches are pruned so their size remains proportional to the stem's diameter at the point of attachment. As the trees grow, some branches are removed to ensure adequate spacing between permanent limbs. The tree's shape is maintained to provide a natural open crown typical of the species.

As the introduction of fruit trees in the garden becomes more popular, we specialise in pruning of apples, pears, and other fruit bearing plants. We also prune and maintain formal pruning styles that include espalier, pleaching and topiary.
To help improve the overall health and appearance of your shrubs, we remove some older branches to maintain the plant's informal natural look and size to the space allotted for them according to the plant's species or variety.

Garden Maintenance and Planting

We offer a garden landscape planting service, specialising in easy maintenance plans.

Whether you have a new garden and require an all over planting layout of carefully selected plants to add year round interest or you just want to add some new plants to complement your existing beds and borders, our team of gardeners can come up with a practical plan to suit your style and budget helping you to achieve the garden you desire.

Plant passport registered, we carefully select the right plants from our local trade suppliers, namley Plants For Trade, and Cherry Tree Nursery, that are suited to your garden's environment creating the right look and feel to complement the surrounding landscape.

After the initial garden visit and consultation to discuss your requirements we then set about preparing a planting plan, then source the plants to go in. Plants are chosen to your requirements and the time available to maintain the garden.

Based on your plants taking approximately 3-5 years to mature this will provide a good balance between creating an instant impact within a reasonable timescale to suit your preferred budget plan.

Trading Since

1999

Find Us

Ferndown