Garden Clearance in Shipley, Ilkeston

Gardens get away from people for all sorts of reasons - a busy few years, a move, a house bought with a garden nobody has touched since the last owner. In Shipley we see plenty of all three, and the first job is always the same: get back to a garden you can see and use.

A clearance starts with the big stuff - brambles, overgrown shrubs, self-seeded saplings and grass that has gone to hay - cut back and removed. Borders are cleared of weeds, and anything worth keeping is identified before it is cut, because an overgrown Shipley garden often hides mature shrubs and perennials that are worth saving.

Waste is the part people underestimate. A properly overgrown garden produces a lot of it, and it all goes away with us to be disposed of correctly, rather than being left in bags on the drive.

Once the ground is clear, it is easy to see what the garden needs next: a new lawn, rebuilt borders, a patio clean, or simply regular maintenance to stop it getting back to where it was.

Clearances also suit landlords and letting agents in Shipley between tenancies, getting a garden back to a presentable state quickly.

Shipley gardens backing onto fields and woodland tend to get overgrown faster than most, because brambles and saplings spread in from the boundary every season. Clearing those edges properly, with the roots dug out rather than just cut, stops the garden disappearing again within a year and makes regular upkeep far easier afterwards. A lawn that stays wet, a hedge that has gone woody at the base, or a fence leaning under the weight of a shrub are worth looking at before the next season makes them worse.