Garden Maintenance · Gloucestershire & the Cotswolds
Garden Maintenance. The Work Is Ours, the Time to Enjoy the Garden Is Yours.
Professional garden maintenance for Cheltenham and the Cotswolds, whether George-Stone Gardens built the garden or you're bringing us one for the first time. Regular visits carried out year round by gardeners who know how a garden should look in every season.
One of the few UK teams trusted to build to RHS show garden standard.
Gold Medal Winner
RHS Flower Show
Tatton Park
Landscaping Team 2023
Featured on BBC
Featured on Gardeners' World
An Extension of the Build, or a Garden with Its Own History
Kirsty McGeorge
& Ian Stone
Directors, George-Stone Gardens
"A well-maintained garden is built on
consistency, knowledge and genuine care."
Whether George-Stone Gardens built it last year or it's been established for decades, a garden never really stops changing. For clients who complete a project with George-Stone Gardens, we recommend taking up the 24-month establishment maintenance contract: the same integrated team stays on through both growing seasons, maintaining the garden so the planting establishes as intended, already knowing its soil, its microclimate, and the reasoning behind every planting decision.
Many of the gardens on our maintenance rota were designed and planted by someone else, often years before we arrived. The same standard of professional garden maintenance applies regardless of who designed and built it.
A garden that gets the right work at the right time of year holds its shape; left too long between visits, even a well-designed garden starts to drift, its borders, lawn, and hedges pulling in different directions rather than working as one scheme. Regular garden maintenance is what keeps that from happening, rather than letting the work pile up between visits.
What We Cover
A Complete Range of Garden Maintenance Services
From weekly lawn mowing to commercial grounds contracts, the gardening services below cover what a well-kept garden actually needs across a full year, not a fixed checklist repeated on every visit regardless of season. The aim throughout is consistent quality, delivered on a regular basis rather than left to catch up whenever there's time.
The Foundation
General Gardening
Pruning, weeding, deadheading and general tidying keep a garden looking cared for rather than simply tidy for a day, scheduled around what that particular month needs rather than a routine repeated all year without variation. Regular deadheading through summer keeps flowering borders blooming for longer, and small jobs handled on a regular basis stop them turning into hard work later in the season. Leaving some seed heads and looser hedge growth over winter can do more for the environment than cutting everything back hard.
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Weed Control
Weed membranes, bark, mulching and targeted treatments used as prevention rather than reaction, chosen with pets and children in mind as much as effectiveness. Borders stay clean between visits instead of getting away again within weeks, and mulching helps the soil hold on to moisture too.
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Hedge Trimming
Timing matters as much as technique. Formal and informal hedges are cut according to species, growth pattern and the bird nesting season, not a single date fixed on a calendar, with all cuttings cleared as part of the visit.
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Pressure Washing
Patios, paths and driveways lose their original colour to algae and grime long before the material itself wears out, especially after a run of bad weather. Cleaning and resealing brings natural stone, porcelain and block paving back close to how they looked when first laid.
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Professional Lawn Care
A lawn is usually the single biggest influence on how a garden feels overall, so the three areas below are treated as one connected job rather than separate tasks.
Lawn Mowing
Cutting heights are adjusted through the season as part of a regular mowing routine, raised a little in hot, dry weather so the grass can hold on to moisture. Clippings are removed so the lawn stays green through the growing months instead of thinning out by late summer.
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Lawn Care & Treatments
Feeding, scarification, top dressing, aeration and moss control address what's happening beneath the surface, not just what shows on top. Cheltenham's clay-heavy soil bakes hard in summer and holds water in winter, which is why aeration matters here more than on lighter ground.
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Lawn Edging
Permanent metal or timber edging separates lawn from border cleanly, so every mow looks finished without a separate trim afterwards. It also stops grass creeping into beds between visits, so borders keep their line even when a few weeks pass.
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Pre-Winter Tasks
Leaf clearance, autumn lawn treatment and bulb planting completed before the ground turns cold do more to protect a garden's health through spring than anything attempted once winter has set in. Left until the new year, the same jobs take longer and the garden loses ground.
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Winter Improvements
The dormant months are when planting changes, border redesigns and small hard landscaping adjustments cause the least disruption, since nothing is in active growth to damage or disturb. It's also a sensible time to plan seasonal planting for the following spring.
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Need help identifying what your garden needs most? We'll walk the garden with you and advise honestly.
How We Work
Flexible Maintenance
That Fits Around You
What a maintenance plan looks like on the ground varies from one garden to the next. Every gardener works from the same standard, arrives with the tools and equipment the job needs, and reports back honestly on what's been done and what's coming up next.
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Continuing Care Through and After Establishment
A maintenance contract is how the 24-month establishment period is delivered, and it can continue for as long as it's needed afterwards, with the same team that built the garden staying on. Nothing needs re-explaining, since we already know what was planted and why. That continuity is often what keeps a garden's design from slowly drifting.
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Regular Contracts
Weekly, fortnightly, or monthly visits, set up around what the garden and the season actually require rather than a fixed schedule that can't flex. The workload adjusts as the year moves through it, and the commitment runs for as long as it continues to suit the garden and the household.
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One-Off and Seasonal Work
Not every garden needs a standing contract. A single hedge cut, a pre-season tidy, or a specific seasonal job can be booked as needed, assessed honestly on site with a fixed price agreed before work starts, and carried out efficiently to the schedule that's been agreed.
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Planting Plans and Border Rejuvenation
Tired or overgrown borders get a fresh planting scheme designed for the site's actual conditions rather than a generic palette, with seasonal planting chosen to suit the soil and light available rather than what happens to be in stock. Sourcing, planting, and the follow-up care needed to establish healthy growth are handled within the same visit programme.
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Commercial and Developer Contracts
Letting agents, developers, and business premises across Gloucestershire are maintained to the same standard as residential gardens, with the reporting and reliability a professional client expects. Multiple properties can be scheduled and reported on together, so there's one point of contact rather than several. End-of-tenancy tidy-ups and one-off commercial clearances are available separately from an ongoing contract.
"The difference in the quality of the borders and the overall structure of the garden compared to when we started is remarkable."
Caroline Whitfield
Client, Prestbury
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Everything You Need to Know
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George-Stone Gardens — the facts
Established 2007 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire · gsgardens.co.uk · 01242 234 929
Awards & accreditations
- RHS Gold Medal — Landscaping and build. Awarded at Tatton Park Flower Show 2023 for construction excellence. Judges cited near-faultless build standards.
- Chartered Institute of Horticulture — Gareth holds CIHort chartered professional status.
- BALI member — British Association of Landscape Industries.
- Approved Jacksons Fencing installers — trained in acoustic, timber, and security fencing systems.
Team credentials
- Laura — Principal Garden Designer. Trained at the Royal Gardens at Highgrove. Graduated under Robin Templar-Williams, 5-time RHS Gold Medallist.
- Callum — Principal Landscaper. RHS Gold Medal recipient for construction precision at Tatton Park Flower Show 2023.
- Kirsty McGeorge and Ian Stone — Co-founders. RHS Gold Medal recipients. Combined 35+ years in landscape design and construction.
Investment
- Projects from £40,000. Complete garden transformations typically £40,000 to £100,000+. Design, landscaping, and build are incorporated within a single integrated project.
- 24-month establishment support available as an optional extra following project completion.
Service area
- Primary area: Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway, Chipping Campden.
- Extended coverage: within 45 minutes of Cheltenham across Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds AONB.
- Listed and conservation area experience across Grade II properties and AONB sites throughout the region.
Book a Garden Visit
Every maintenance arrangement starts with an initial, no-obligation visit. We'll walk the garden with you, assess what it actually needs, and give an honest recommendation, whether that's a full contract, a one-off visit, or nothing at all if the garden's already in good shape. Fill in the contact form below or call the office directly, and leave the rest to the team.
We respond to all enquiries personally. We'll get back to you within one working day.