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Seasonal Garden Care

Seasonal Garden Care

Seasonal Garden Care

Enjoy a lush, vibrant garden all year round with our tailored Seasonal Garden Care services. Our passionate gardener understands the unique needs each season brings, ensuring your outdoor space thrives beautifully from spring's bloom to winter’s calm.

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Planting Design

Seasonal Garden Care

Seasonal Garden Care

 Transform your outdoor space with our bespoke planting design and installation. We blend creativity with horticultural flair to design planting schemes uniquely suited to your style, environment, and garden vision. 

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Permaculture Advice

Seasonal Garden Care

Permaculture Advice

Our permaculture advice service offers practical, site-specific guidance to help you design  more self-sustaining and resilient garden in harmony with nature. We help you build a garden that works with the land, not against it. 

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Seasonal Garden Care

Spring Awaking

Summer Flower Glory

Summer Flower Glory

Rejuvenate your garden after winter with gentle pruning, mulching, and planting to stimulate healthy growth and vibrant blooms. We ensure your garden starts the growing season full of life and colour.  If you need help with seeds sowing we are more than happy to help. We will give you a short manual how to care for your garden and seedlings in the coming weeks to ensure beautiful blooms and healthy plants.

Summer Flower Glory

Summer Flower Glory

Summer Flower Glory

Keep your garden thriving throughout the summer with regular maintenance, natural pest management, and plant care tailored specifically to your local microclimate. We focus on enhancing plant resilience naturally and ensuring your garden remains lush despite varying weather conditions, providing you with a wonderful interest, fabulous blooms, and joy throughout the summer months.

Autumn Preparation

Summer Flower Glory

Autumn Preparation

 Prolong seasonal interest in your garden through carefully maintained plants and clearing away spent summer blooms.  We carry out mindful pruning, plant trees, split perennials to rejuvenate your garden beds, clear fallen leaves (if possible creating tiny leaf composting heaps), and sow seeds for next year's blooms. Our autumn care enhances garden health for robust growth in the following seasons.


Garden Wintering

Garden Dream Package

Autumn Preparation

  Our gardener ensures your plants remain protected naturally from frost damage, emerging refreshed and vigorous as the seasons change.  We also prepare your garden for the following seasons by removing any diseased debris, leaving all good stuff in place for the wildlife for a comfortable wintering, adding mulch to enhance wildlife protection and also improving garden health for future sustainable growth.

Seasonal Planting

Garden Dream Package

Garden Dream Package

Bring your garden to life each season with our professional Seasonal Planting services. Whether you're dreaming of vibrant spring blooms, lush summer foliage, rich autumn colours, or hardy winter interest, we provide tailored planting solutions to match your vision.

Let us know what are you looking for and we can plant lush borders, hanging baskets, and pots ready to bloom and  dazzle all season long.

Garden Dream Package

Garden Dream Package

Garden Dream Package

With personalised attention, seasonal expertise, and a deep commitment to organic practices, we transform your garden into a vibrant, sustainable haven you will cherish year-round. 


Garden Dream Package includes one visit per season as detailed above. Depending on the size of your garden it will be a 1, 2 or 3 days-long visit, includes for biannual seasonal planting. 

Planting Design & Installation

 From thoughtful plant selection to precise installation, we handle every step, ensuring your garden flourishes beautifully. Whether you are looking to revitalise an existing garden or create something entirely new, our bespoke planting designs will provide year-round beauty and enjoyment. 

Consultation

Begin your garden transformation with our personalised planting design consultation.

During a meeting we will walk through your garden with you, discuss your ideas, preferences, and practical needs, and assess the site conditions such as light, soil, and existing planting.

Design

Following this visit, you will receive a detailed planting design that includes a mood board, plant palette, and layout suggestions to guide the next phase. This collaborative process ensures your garden design reflects both your vision and the unique character of your space. Allowing time for adjustments and installation proposal with pricing.

Installation

Once your planting design is finalised, and you have accepted the proposed price, we carefully bring it to life. We source high-quality plants, prepare the soil organically, and install each element with precision and care. Our goal is to ensure your garden establishes quickly and thrives for seasons to come. We also provide guidance on aftercare, so you can enjoy lasting beauty and healthy growth. 

Permaculture Design & Implementation Plan

Permaculture is a holistic approach to lifestyle and land design that mimics natural ecosystems

Create a thriving, sustainable garden with our permaculture advice service. We offer tailored, site-specific guidance based on core principles, earth care, people care, and fair share.  We will help you to observe and interact, use and value renewable resources, and we will look together how to reuse resources on site, and reduce waste. Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to adapt an existing space, we help you design a garden that works in harmony with nature  and your needs - efficient, resilient, and full of life.


From your home, to your garden and larger community, we can help you to slowly start a transition towards slower and fulfilling lifestyle, abundant with empathy to nature, relations, and our surroundings.


We will provide you with an initial insights into your home and surroundings, using zones and sectors planning. This very first exercise will help you to understand obstructions but most importantly the mighty potential of your site. We will talk through your needs and aspirations, which will allow us to create specific plan for your household how to explore and transition to life in a rhythm with nature. 


  • Site plan and Preliminary garden design
  • List of potential hidden resources on your property
  • Inventory of inputs and outputs from your home and garden
  • Guidance on maximising the use of household resources
  • Timeline of simple, actionable steps over the coming years

To Plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow


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Wildly Beautiful: A Gallery of our projects

    About Us

    Agnes

    Michal

    Michal

    Skilled gardener with a strong foundation in permaculture design and practical horticulture. Having completed a Permaculture Design Course and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Practical Gardening Course, she brings both ecological understanding and hands-on expertise to every project. With a keen eye for detail and a thoughtful, sustainable approach, Agnes creates well-balanced gardens that support healthy soils, thriving plants, and people-friendly spaces.

    Michal

    Michal

    Michal

    With a background in civil engineering, quantity surveying and estimation, Michal brings a strong practical understanding of landscape and construction projects. His experience supports accurate planning, cost awareness and efficient project delivery. This hands-on approach ensures designs are both buildable and thoughtfully executed.

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    Nurture Your Garden with Us!

    We love helping gardens and the people who enjoy them, and we’d be delighted to hear from you.

    Send us a message or WhatsApp to explore how we can bring your outdoor space to life.

    We’re happy to connect with customers across Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

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    Herman Blackthorn Ltd

    194 Quarry Street, Hamilton ML3 6QR, Scotland, UK

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