Garden maintenance in Kildare.
Garden maintenance across County Kildare, from Naas and Newbridge to Maynooth, Celbridge and Athy, on a written schedule with the same crew on the same day each cycle. If you are looking for a gardener in Kildare who will keep the long hedges as well as the lawn, this is that service.
Gardens in Kildare tend to be larger than their Dublin equivalents, with long boundary hedges, heavy clay lawns and open, windy ground.
We keep them on a fortnightly, monthly or seasonal schedule at a fixed price per visit or per month, with the hedges and boundaries planned into the year as carefully as the mowing.
The walk-around is free, the written quote follows within 48 hours, and green waste goes away with us on every visit.
Kildare gardens and why the hedges matter.
A lot of Kildare's housing went up in the commuter towns from the nineties on, and the plots on many of those estates are generous by Dublin standards. A corner site in Sallins or a detached house on the edge of Clane can have a front lawn, a side garden and a back garden that runs well past the patio.
The bigger change is the boundaries. Where a Dublin semi has a fence and a short hedge, a Kildare garden often has a long run of laurel, griselinia, beech or leylandii around it, and where the estate backs onto farmland there may be an old hawthorn and blackthorn hedgerow along the back. Those hedges take more time over a year than the lawn does. So the schedule is built around them: which hedges get cut in which months, how many visits that takes, and how the clippings are handled.
Heavy clay lawns that sit wet in winter.
Much of Kildare sits on heavy, clay-rich ground. It holds water, and from late autumn into spring a lot of lawns stay soft for weeks at a time, with puddles in the low corners after rain. Mowing clay in that state leaves wheel ruts, smears the surface and packs the soil tighter, which makes the wet worse the following winter.
So a winter visit in Kildare is often more about the edges than the middle. The strimmer goes round the boundaries, the beds are tidied, leaves are cleared off the lawn so it is not smothered, and the grass is cut when the ground will carry the mower. We agree that at the start so a visit without a full mow is understood, not a surprise.
Where a lawn lies under water for most of the winter, maintenance will not fix it. That is a drainage problem, and it is priced separately as landscaping work.
Open ground and wind.
The middle of the county is flat and open, with the Curragh plain and big fields running right up to the edge of many towns. Wind comes across that ground with little to stop it. It leans young hedges, dries out the top of the beds in a breezy spring week and drops leaves from the field boundaries into gardens all through October and November.
In practice that means autumn leaf clearance on a Kildare schedule is heavier than most people expect, and anything tall in the beds needs pruning before the winter gales rather than after them.
Garden maintenance in Kildare through the year.
Most family gardens here suit a fortnightly visit from March or April through October and a monthly visit over the winter. A large garden with long hedges and full beds can want a weekly visit in the growing season. A small garden on a newer estate, with more patio than lawn, can be monthly all year.
- 01Spring: the first cuts as the ground firms up, beds weeded and edged, shrubs pruned
- 02Early summer: regular mowing and strimming, the first hedge trims on privet, griselinia and leylandii
- 03Late summer: the beech cut in August, a second trim on the faster hedges
- 04Autumn: leaf clearance, the last cut, the garden put to bed for winter
- 05Winter: monthly visits for edges, leaves and tidying, or a pause if you prefer
Towns we cover in Kildare.
We cover the whole county, including Naas, Newbridge, Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip, Kildare town, Athy, Clane, Sallins and Kilcock, and the estates and rural houses around them. The same crew is assigned to your garden and comes on the same day each cycle, which suits households where everyone is gone on the early commute and back after dark. Nobody needs to be home. You get a short note and a few photos after each visit showing what was done.
From the call to the photos.
The same crew looks at the job, quotes it and does it. You get before and after photos when it is finished.
- First01.
Walk the garden with us.
Free. We go round the boundaries, the lawn and the beds with you, and look at where the ground stays wet and where the wind comes in.
- Then02.
Schedule and price in writing.
Within 48 hours: how often we come, what each visit covers, which months the hedges are cut and the fixed price per visit or per month.
- Next03.
Same crew, same day.
The crew who priced it keeps it, on a set day each cycle. Clippings and green waste leave with them every time.
- Last04.
Note and photos.
Sent after each visit, so you can see the hedges and the lawn without walking out to check.
Where we draw the line.
We maintain gardens in Kildare; we do not do tree surgery beyond hedges and small trees, and we do not run feed-and-weed lawn treatment programmes. Drainage for a lawn that floods every winter, or a new lawn where the old one has failed, is quoted as landscaping. Very large grounds that need a ride-on mower and a team are not what we are set up for. Height reductions on overgrown hedges, and first-time tidies on gardens that have been let go, are quoted separately before the schedule starts.
Gardening questions.
Anything else, ring 085 781 4603.
Do you cover rural houses in Kildare as well as the towns?
Yes. The schedule works the same for a one-off house outside Kilcock as for an estate in Newbridge. Larger rural plots are priced on what is in them, which is why we walk the garden first.
My lawn is waterlogged all winter. Will you still cut it?
Not while it is waterlogged, because mowing clay in that state damages it. The visit goes on edges, beds and leaves, and the grass is cut once it firms up. If it never dries, that is a drainage job.
How often should a large Kildare garden be maintained?
Usually fortnightly from spring to autumn and monthly over winter. A big garden with long hedges may want weekly visits in the growing season. We suggest a schedule on the walk-around and it can change after a season.
Can you look after the hedgerow at the back that runs along a field?
Usually, yes, from the garden side. Bear in mind that hedgerow cutting on uncultivated land and roadside hedges is restricted from 1 March to 31 August under the Wildlife Act, so a farm-type boundary is generally cut in the autumn or winter.
Can I pause visits over the winter?
Yes. Some gardens drop to monthly and some stop for the coldest months. It is agreed at the start and easy to change later.
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