Damian The Gardener

31/05/2026

Short back and sides.

19/05/2026

My client is so happy with the roses I pruned last autumn. Here are a couple of examples of how they’re looking now 💛🩷

16/05/2026

Some before and after shots of some rather overgrown beds. Removed a lot of grass, ivy and old daffodil leaves, and a smattering of bindweed and other ‘undesirables’.

(What counts as an undesirable is, of course, in the eye of the beholder 😉).

12/05/2026

08/05/2026

I forgot to take ‘before’ pics (again🙄). I basically cut all the yellowing daffodil leaves to ground level and gave the beds a thorough weeding. Looking quite tidy now I think!

05/05/2026

We had a lovely day out at Great Dixter House and Gardens recently for Sammy Revill’s birthday. The weather was perfect!

04/05/2026

This Scarlet firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea) was riddled with brambles so the customer asked me to cut it back. A perfect storm of thorns (it’s not called ‘firethorn’ for nothing). I must have been stabbed over a hundred times THROUGH my thorn proof gloves in the process!

Not the easiest job - and sadly the shrub won’t have flowers or berries this year - but the sun was shining while I worked and at least it’s a bit less ‘wild’-looking now.

(The pile on the left is the brambles 😱).

26/03/2026

Finally finished clearing the ivy!

24/03/2026

I love the contrast of the leaves and branches of this Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) against the grain of the wooden fence 💚♥️

23/03/2026

A nice little weeding/digging over job today. I didn’t get a proper ‘before shot’ of the first bed (I took two shots) but happy with the result 🌱😊