The Garden Guy - Inverclyde

05/06/2025

👨🏻‍🌾 THE (real) GARDEN GUY 👨🏻‍🌾

It was brought to our attention that someone locally has decided to name their gardening business "The Garden Guy".

Although this person knows that there is already a well established business using this name in the area (he contacted us a few months back looking for a job!) and despite the fact that we do not own any rights to this name, we feel it is a pretty low move. Hopefully it wasn't meant but we feel this could confuse our customers.

As we do not know how well this person works, we would like to make sure whatever is going on does not impact on the reputation of The Garden Guy - Inverclyde . We would really appreciate if you could share this post around 🙏🏻

NO, we have not changed our logo.
NO, our phone number has not changed.
NO, our owner has not changed.
NOTHING IS CHANGING!

You can be assured that, by (continuing to) using us you will receive the same top service as before.

And we would like to wish this new company a lot of success 👍🏻

01/04/2025

It's time to get the mower back out! 🥳

For returning customers, if I've not been in touch with you yet, I will be within the next 24 hours.

I have limited availability for new customers in INVERKIP and WEMYSS BAY only. If you would like to book a free quotation visit, get in touch!

PS: The Health and safety inspector is requiring me to wear protective equipment when using power tools. I might still wear a bonnet though! 😉

14/04/2024

👨‍🌾 National Gardening Day 👨‍🌾

2024 has not been kind to us so far. Very very wet and hardly a winter. It makes it difficult to go out and enjoy our gardens.

But soon spring days will be here and life will be back in our dull looking pieces of haven.

As a gardener, it is a difficult time to face and we can only hope that soon the sun will come back out (or at least that the rain will give us a proper break!).

But this extreme weather shouldn't put a halt to our love for gardening, that is so important for nature's wellbeing and our own! Soon, the sun will shine again! And meanwhile, we can always get a few seeds started indoors or get a couple of house plants to keep us rust free 😉

Happy Gardening Day!
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06/04/2024

We can't wait to get the first round of grass cut underway but it's not sensible to do so just now as it would damage the lawn by compacting it and the grass would be more likely to be pulled/dislodged rather than sharply chopped. At The Garden Guy, we take pride in providing a quality professional service and sometimes it means having to delay things a bit until the time is right! Our job is to work with the seasons, not against them 😉

Your patience and trust is appreciated 🙏 We can't wait to see you all again soon.

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01/02/2024

And there I thought I was taking a nice relaxing break away from my beloved plants 🤣 On my way to a one-hour tour of Disney's greenhouses 🤷‍♂️

27/11/2023

🎄NEW PRODUCTS🎄

🦌 Handmade solid wood log reindeers (sizes can vary slightly - around 26in tall). Suitable for indoor and outdoor. £25 (⚠️LARGE SOLD OUT⚠️). Smaller version (roughly 15in tall) is £18 and tabletop version coming soon. VERY VERY LIMITED AVAILABILITY!!!

🎄 Handmade Countertop Christmas tree (25in tall) with battery operated fairy lights. Indoor use only and battery included. £12. For an additional £3, the star can be personalised with a surname. Wood can be stained for an additional £1. LIMITED AVAILABILITY!

Free delivery in Inverkip and Wemyss Bay. Get in touch for a delivery quote for elsewhere.

25/08/2023

Uneven patio? Trust The Garden Guy to get to the "root" of the problem 🤭

15/08/2023

Fantastic afternoon spent delivering this workshop on Sensory Gardening. It was a very interesting experience for The Garden Guy. Really enjoyed it so hopefully there will be more in the future 🤗

The participants have done a fantastic job at putting together this wonderful sensory friendly planter 👏

Thank you Belville Community Garden for giving me the chance to talk (a bit too much 🫣) about this subject very dear to me and, hopefully , inspire a few folks to create their very own sensory friendly planter. And thank you Branchton Gardening Club for hosting this event today.

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15/08/2023

So excited to run my first ever Community Workshop at Branchton Gardening Club

Feel free to join us. It's a great opportunity to learn more about Sensory friendly gardening.

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We're looking forward to our next RHS cascade learning workshop this afternoon at Branchton Gardening Club . Guy Cesar will be leading this and we'll be getting hands on with creating a sensory planter! Join us from 1pm-3pm to learn more about sensory gardening- it'll be great to see you there.

05/07/2023

It was brought to my attention that Facebook Messenger is not notifying me of new messages and not updating as it should, meaning I have missed several messages over the past weeks 😕

If you do not hear back from me within a few days (I do have a bit of a backlog of messages 🙏), please do send me a text message or, preferably, WhatsApp message.

When out and about, it is often difficult to answer phone calls or even take notes so calls are not usually answered. If this is your preferred method of communication, please leave a voicemail and I will return your call at the earliest convenience.

I believe I have now replied to all pending messages on Messenger so if you are still expecting a reply from me, please be in touch!

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11/06/2023

🦔 Night time visitor🦔

After a long day getting my own garden into some sort of order (it was well overdue 🫣), I was enjoying the last rays of light when I spotted this wee chunky roaming around the garden.

As it was walking towards a road, I had to pick it up and get it towards the back where it's a wee woodland/green safe area.

Every other year or so, we release a couple of hedgehogs in the area but it's the first time in over a decade that I have one visiting my garden (or at least that I get to see).

Take care of your local wildlife, folks. They need us more than ever 💪 If they disappear, then all our ecosystem and us will soon follow! Be responsible with your use of pesticides and weedkillers, be mindful of the timing for winter and spring garden clearing and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE allow space for the wildlife to thrive!

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31/05/2023

A clean mowed lawn can make such a difference to a garden!

Next step is trimming the shrubs to regain the lost space 💪

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