With a team of professional gardeners looking after over 350 gardens in the Lake District, Lakeland Gardens can offer the whole range of services from garden maintenance, landscaping, garden design and garden restoration. And their beautiful nursery in the heart of Windermere is bursting with fabulous plants to suit every style of garden.
From private gardens and holiday lets to guest houses and hotel grounds, Lakeland Gardens have designed, built and currently maintain many of the most beautiful gardens in the Lake District and beyond.
Read on for an overview of the services that Lakeland Gardens can offer you…
Lakeland Gardens’ talented and qualified design experts are passionate about realising the true potential of your garden. Lakeland Gardens MD and Head Designer Sam Westcott has years of design, horticultural and landscaping experience. Whether you are setting out to create a new garden, or to develop one of several year’s standing, careful design can help you avoid wasting time and money on trial and error, and to create a space that works in harmony from the outset. Good garden design pays for itself. With a team that fully understands how to harmoniously link planting and landscaping with your surroundings, Lakeland Gardens are proud to have created some of the area’s most exquisite gardens; from tropical sanctuaries to uplifting heritage flower gardens and effortlessly elegant contemporary spaces.
Lakeland Gardens has been offering a high-quality garden design and landscaping service since 2004, combining their hard and soft landscaping abilities to create inspirational and timeless landscapes for their many clients. If you’re looking to renew and upgrade existing landscaping such as edging or paving, or are looking to completely change the levels and introduce ponds, water features, retaining walls, new paved seating areas, lawns and new borders, a fully qualified landscaping team that have extensive knowledge and experience in all areas of landscaping will work with accurate plans and drawings to bring your dreams to life. Lakeland Gardens are proud that the high standard of their work allows them to carry the government-endorsed Trustmark for quality and be an accredited member of the Association of Professional Landscapers.
For over a decade Lakeland Gardens have been raising the standard of garden maintenance, and keeping the Lake District’s gardens and grounds looking their best all year round. They now look after over 350 gardens, the majority of which are located in the South Lakes. Offering garden maintenance in Ambleside, Grasmere, Rydal, Langdale, Troutbeck, Windermere, Bowness on Windermere, Ings, Staveley, Burneside, Kendal and Grange over Sands, and more recently they have taken on quite a number of larger projects outside of the South Lakes, in Penrith, Carlisle, Keswick and the North East.
Lakeland Gardens offers grounds and garden maintenance services to both domestic and commercial clients from their base and nursery in Windermere, working with you to create a customised schedule of visits that will have your garden looking great all year round. A professional approach and efficient teamwork means that they will provide a complete garden maintenance service that will exceed your expectations.
Lakeland Gardesn also look after a number of holiday homes for private customers. Visitors and guests form their first (and often lasting) impression of the quality of your holiday home from the exterior of the building and the grounds in which it is set. An attractive, clean and well maintained appearance is a reassuring indicator of commitment to high standards within. Lakeland Gardens clients are able to rely fully on the professional regular garden maintenance service that they receive.
Lakeland Gardens are passionate about restoring gardens to their former glory, and full garden restoration is one of the specialist services they provide. Breathing new life into a neglected garden or landscape requires skill, knowledge and imagination, and Lakeland Gardens are proud that for over ten years they have been realising the true potential of many of the area’s finest gardens. Their work has helped clients win over twenty In Bloom Awards and some have even become members of the national Open Garden scheme.
Lakeland Gardens offer a garden restoration service that will bring the beauty back to your garden. With a team of horticulturalists and gardeners that have a vast wealth of knowledge to draw on, understanding what works and, more importantly, what doesn’t in the Northern climate, and always considering the environmental impact and long-term goals of their work. From rediscovering lost heritage and original design features to restoring wildflower meadows, woodland or even encouraging flowering from plants put in many years ago, the team will bring your garden back to life.
All trees have a character and different needs. All tree services carried out by Lakeland Gardens, from pruning to tree felling, are executed by highly qualified, experienced tree surgeons with over 20 years of combined tree surgery experience. Their tree surgeons use the latest tree maintenance equipment, are qualified to the nationally recognised standard: BS3998, operate in accordance with all current Health & Safety legislation and are fully insured.
The teams are skilled not only at removing, maintaining, and preserving existing trees but can also recommend and supply beautiful mature and established trees when needed. With years of professional tree surgery experience Lakeland Gardens are well accustomed to Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) and conservation area restrictions. Their practised team can even apply to the relevant authorities on behalf of their clients if these restrictions apply.
Lakeland Gardens tree surgeons have extensive qualifications including NPTC chainsaw licenses, NC Arb (national certificate in arboriculture), climbing certificates and chapter 8 traffic management certificates.
With plants to suit any style of garden: large or small; naturalistic or formal; new or established, Lakeland Gardens are proud to be breathing new life into Windermere’s Garden Centre. The centrally located site was originally owned by Thomas Mawson, the famous Victorian garden designer, but had been closed for twenty-five years until Lakeland Gardens acquired the lease in 2020. The 4,500 square metre space is once more home to specialist and architectural plants.
Lakeland Gardens Nursery specialises in plants, trees and sculptures that simply can’t be found in your average garden centre. Sourced directly from the best growers in Europe and the UK by our horticultural and design experts, all plants are specially selected to thrive in the Lake District climate. Everything sourced by them will give gardens the unmistakable wow factor; from mature trees and shrubs and towering grasses to topiary and more exotic varieties such as palms. All are available in the heart of Windermere where visitors to Lakeland Gardens Nursery can expect not only the best quality plants but the insight and expertise of their knowledgeable team too.
