Peacock Garden Services

Peacock Garden Services Husband and wife gardening business

17/05/2026

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16/05/2026

🐝 I’m dying out… and when I go, your world changes too.
Bees are not just tiny insects in the garden — they are silent workers behind the food on our tables, the flowers in our fields, and the balance of nature itself.
Without pollinators, crops fail, ecosystems weaken, and life becomes harder for every living thing.
A bee’s survival is deeply connected to our own future, whether we notice it or not.
Sometimes the smallest creature carries the biggest responsibility on Earth.
🌼 If bees disappear, it won’t just be their problem… it will become ours too.

04/05/2026

Every ladybird larva knocked off a rose stem is several hundred aphids that will never be eaten.

On rose stems in spring, there's something most gardeners don't recognise. A small elongated body — dark grey or black with orange spots, bristling with tiny raised bumps — strange-looking, unfamiliar, apparently out of place. The instinct is immediate: remove it, flick it away, kill it. That's precisely when you destroy the only thing that was going to solve the aphid problem without any further intervention. 🐞

The ladybird larva is the hunting form of the insect. The familiar red adult with black spots — which most gardeners already protect — consumes around 50 aphids a day. Its larva consumes two to three times that before metamorphosis. It is more mobile along stems, more effective inside dense aphid colonies than the adult ever manages to be.

What distinguishes it from a genuine pest at a glance: it moves with direction, always toward aphid colonies. It does not chew leaves. It does not lay eggs. It hunts by advancing along stems and pausing at each aphid. Watch one for thirty seconds without intervening and the behaviour is obvious.

A genuine identification caveat for Australian gardeners: the 28-spotted ladybird (Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata) is a pest species whose larvae DO eat leaves — they're yellow with branching spines and will be found on foliage, not hunting aphid colonies. If the larva you've found is on leaves and leaving feeding damage, it's worth a closer look. The beneficial species will be on stems, moving toward insects.

What kills beneficial ladybird larvae: any contact insecticide applied to roses in spring before aphids have been properly identified, and the habit of manually cleaning stems. Aphids arrive in September. Ladybird larvae appear shortly after — evolution has synchronised the two.

Leave the stems alone for a few days. The system works when you let it. 🌿

Wishing everyone a very happy New Year from us and Bella xx
31/12/2024

Wishing everyone a very happy New Year from us and Bella xx

We'd like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas. With love from Alan, Anita and Bella xx
24/12/2023

We'd like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas. With love from Alan, Anita and Bella xx

It would have been our beloved Ruby's 14th birthday today.We would like to thank these independent businesses for the ca...
19/05/2022

It would have been our beloved Ruby's 14th birthday today.
We would like to thank these independent businesses for the care and love they gave our little brown spaniel during the last two years of her happy life which sadly ended last June.

Cornwall Pet Services
Pets Pantry
Dales Family Butchers
Penmellyn Vets St Columb

Thank you from Anita and Alan at Peacock Garden Services xx

It's the last day of January 2022 !Here at Peacock Garden Services we're already seeing the signs of Spring 😊Trees are b...
31/01/2022

It's the last day of January 2022 !
Here at Peacock Garden Services we're already seeing the signs of Spring 😊
Trees are busy budding up and indeed some are ready to burst into flower.
Camelias are blooming everywhere and in the hedgerows snowdrops and daffodils have sprung into life. Bees have been buzzing around and ladybirds early active.
There is still much to accomplish in the garden or at the plot to ensure summer is plentiful and as beautiful as can be.
If you would like some help with your pruning, hedging or clearing please contact us.
We have availability for regular garden maintenance plus are happy to carry out tidies.
We are Peacock Garden Services from Helston ..... Alan, Anita and Bella spaniel 😊

Six months ago today our Ruby went awayShe looks down from the sky and watches us still cryShe started as our little fri...
14/12/2021

Six months ago today our Ruby went away
She looks down from the sky and watches us still cry
She started as our little friend and then became our best
When Roo died our hearts went with her and our thoughts just wouldn't rest
So we still miss her badly as we make us a sweet new friend
Bella's making us feel better and helping our hearts mend
She's full of life and loving plus a load of mischief too
So the three of us are wishing a happy Christmas to you
So watch for little Bella, she's gonna feature on our page
In fact she's coming gardening so she'll be centre of stage
Christmas without Ruby will be very hard to bear
But we're really really happy that our Bella will be there.
Happy Christmas with love from Alan Anita and Bella at Peacock Garden Services.

Well it's almost spring time again! The trees will soon be in leaf and there are lots of flowers blooming already. The l...
17/02/2021

Well it's almost spring time again! The trees will soon be in leaf and there are lots of flowers blooming already. The latest acquisition for us is this fantastic piece of equipment. The L plates have come off now and it's earning its living! If you have a large lawn or paddock which you would like regularly mowed please give us a call. One of our latest projects at a regular garden was cutting down three small conifer trees before the birds start to build nests. Just have to reduce the height of the stumps and the idea is to make a seating area for the clients small children. Today we have been carrying out our first maintenance visit to a holiday cottage in Porthleven. Lawns and cornish hedge tidied and lots of winter clearing done. If you have a holiday cottage and are looking forward to Boris' announcements, why not get on top of the garden and grounds now, ready for the start of the season. Please contact us for one off tidies and reliable regular maintenance.

It's our first Christmas in Cornwall and it's been a very different year in lots of ways. Moved here in February, lockdo...
23/12/2020

It's our first Christmas in Cornwall and it's been a very different year in lots of ways. Moved here in February, lockdown in March! Through these last ten months we have been welcomed by such a kind and friendly community. Whether when working, shopping or walking Ruby our spaniel, we have felt we belong. This Christmas will be strange for us all, but we would like to thank our clients, friends and community and to wish everyone a merry Christmas. Here's hoping 2021 is a happier year for us all. Alan, Anita and Ruby.

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Helston
TR130PW

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm

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