Patios, boundaries, large-scale planting and big hedges for private homes and estates within twenty miles of Harrogate.
Planting season opens in November. Surveys are booking now.
Landscape construction
We don't do mowing rounds or weekly gardening. We build the parts of a garden that are meant to last: the terrace you'll eat on for thirty years, the boundary that keeps the horses in, the avenue your grandchildren will walk under. And we keep the big hedges in shape.
Services
Stone
York stone, sandstone, granite setts and porcelain, laid by hand on a proper sub-base. We dig down to firm ground, compact it, and put the falls and drainage in before a single flag goes down. That's why our terraces are still level a decade later.
Boundaries
Long runs of post and rail across paddocks, close-board for privacy, oak gates hung to swing true. Where a wall is the right answer, we rebuild in stone to match what's already there.
Hedges
Four-metre leylandii on a boundary, a hundred metres of beech down a drive, a yew that needs bringing back. We cut the hedges a gardener with a ladder can't, with straight faces and level tops, and clear every cutting away.
A sapling takes thirty years to look like anything. Most of our clients would rather not wait. So we source semi-mature trees, four to eight metres tall, from specialist UK nurseries and plant them while they're dormant.
Each tree goes into a pit dug and improved for it, held with underground anchors so there are no stakes to look at, and fitted with an irrigation pipe at the root ball. We water them through their first summer, because that's when new trees fail.
The working year
Trees go in while they're dormant. Stone wants dry weather and no frost. Big hedge cuts wait until the birds have finished nesting. So every job has a right time, and booking early gets you it.
Root-balled trees can go in now. Bare-root season opens in November, so this is the time to book a survey if you want to plant this winter.
Work
Shown without names or addresses. More on request at the site visit.
A lot of our clients are in the public eye. Nobody hears about your project from us.
Where we work
From the edge of the Dales to the Vale of York, and down the Wharfe into north Leeds. If you're just outside the line, ask anyway. For larger projects we'll travel.
FAQs
Not general maintenance: no mowing rounds or weekly gardening. The exception is big hedges. We cut and reduce tall boundary hedges, long estate hedges and formal hedging once or twice a year. Everything else we do is construction and planting, and if you need a regular gardener we're happy to recommend one.
Harrogate and roughly twenty miles around it: Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, Boroughbridge, Otley, Ilkley, Tadcaster, north Leeds and across to York. For larger projects we'll travel further.
Yes. We walk the garden with you, check levels, access and drainage, and follow up with drawings and a fixed quote.
While they're dormant. Root-balled and semi-mature trees go in from October to March, bare-root trees and hedging from November to March. Book a survey in late summer or early autumn to plant the following winter.
Enquire
Every project starts with a walk round the ground together. There's no charge for it.
Rather email? 4aseasons@gmail.com
