Professional Garden
Maintenance across Sussex & Surrey
Gardens maintained to Royal Horticultural Society standards
We are a team of dedicated and thorough hands-on gardeners. We maintain and improve gardens to a high horticultural and aesthetic standard, whilst minimising disruption and fuss for clients.
We currently manage gardens in Bosham, Burpham, Fernhurst, Henfield, Lurgashall, Northchapel, Pulborough and West Chiltington. References are available upon request.
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A strong local reputation
Current clients in Bosham, Burpham, Fernhurst, Northchapel, Pulborough, Storrington and West Chiltington. References are available upon request.
Insured with spray License (PA1 / PA6), waste carrier licence, chainsaw licence (CS30 / CS31) and staff DBS Checked
The above help ensure our insurance is valid and we minimise risk for ourselves and our environment.
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A seldom used lawn tennis court has been transformed by the Willowhayne team into a flower meadow with secluded seating.
A huge thank you to the team for persevering through relentless Spring rain 💚
Grateful to receive this from our client, with low sun on a west facing wall. What a sight.
Bravo and thank you to Steve who manages this garden and it’s 4 magnificent wisteria 👏
#wisteria #rhs
Some projects take very little effort but a whole lot of patience.
#cowslip #meadowflowers #rhs
We are very happy to announce our new partnership with Perennial, the UK’s only charity dedicated to helping people working in horticulture.
Last year Perennial helped 23,919 people via their free and confidential helpline. We’re proud that our support as a partner helps provide this service year after year.
#careeradvice #financialadvice #healthadvice #legaladvice #perennialpartner
A wisteria I admire on every visit 💜
A day out to @westdeangardens for some of the team. To admire their espaliers and glasshouses but to also attend brilliant study sessions with @gardener_sylvia on caring for veteran orchard trees.
We often inherit veteran fruit trees that need multi-year programs to improve their health and aesthetic. We’re now better skilled as a team to do so.
The end of our first year getting this contemporary garden back in shape.
It has been a joy working with clients who are open minded and eager to improve their plot.
Alstroemeria staying strong in mid October.
Great fun with our cutting gardens this year but dahlia season is swiftly coming to a close. Until next year.
Two majestic native trees.
New client, new view 😊
A flock of four ducks on the Surrey-Sussex border.
Boggy shade in winter, dry dappled shade in summer. Difficult conditions for a flower meadow but we did it!
Ever grateful to our magnificent clients here. Three years ago we joked about opening for @sussexwestngs . Another couple of years and it will be ready.
What an entrance.
Rose, box parterre, wysteria, hebe, lavender.
Exceptional work here gang. High praise from the owners too, progressing the garden and keeping standards high.
Thanks to Steve for managing this new appointment.
Long borders in Bosham
Dreaming big with our new client near Ebernoe.
A beautiful photo taken by Will 👏
#itchenor
Cosmos 💕
Well done Ben, very neat. You’re learning fast. An asset to our team 💪 thank you.
Steve, in the zone. A talented topiarist. Thank you Steve!
Bravo to Jack for caring so well for this box parterre design. Taking 4 days to trim all the box here, it is Integral to the grounds of the C18 home. Thanks Jack!
#drought #hedgesofinstagram
A beautiful bank of Hyndrangeas, pre-drought.
#boshamhoe #bosham
Cyathea cooperi installed either side of a gateway.
A pair of Hornbeam sentinels, before and after a delayed trim. #nestingbirds
Buxus pillows that have previously been ravaged by box caterpillars. Bouncing back 💪
They are a lovely bunch. #goteam
The big ladders are out for these large Pittosporum.
Welcome aboard Mark and Lisa!
The wider grounds are in need of some attention but the walled garden, inspired by @westdeangardens , is a gardener’s dream. Espaliers for days.
Thankfully our newest client saw past my incredibly muddy van, signing us up within 24 hours of our initial meeting.
Please make contact soon if you are considering us for 2022.
#westsussex #southdownsnationalpark
A beautiful selection of plants for a new Andy Sturgeon design, going in the ground this week 🎉
With half the team on holiday, this may take a while!
@andysturgeondesign #coastal #softlandscaping #design #arundel #bosham #burpham #fittleworth #pulborough #storrington #westchiltington
The South Downs Way never disappoints.
#willowhayne #fittleworth #pulborough #westchiltington #storrington #bosham
Helping our client improve their plot.
These patches of native grasses and wildflowers are now teeming with wildlife. Next year we’ll be creating a few more mini meadows inland toward the house. #bosham
10ft up a ladder but what a view 😎
This new client contacted us after seeing our work in their neighbour’s garden. Good news.
Get in touch for a chat and a wander around your grounds.
A wildflower meadow in Burpham, West Sussex. Here we manage the rare chalk grassland habitat as well as the client's more formal domestic garden.
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A front garden recently mulched along Tamarisk Way in East Preston. #puckamuck
Designed by @gardenhousedesign, maintenance schedule by @willowhayne_gardens
A coastal garden in East Preston designed by @andysturgeondesign , built by @acrelandscapesltd , maintenance schedule by @willowhayne_gardens
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Calm before the storm 🙏
The apple tree isn’t too happy but the scent from this rambling rose is exceptional. Strong, spicy, musky aromas throughout the orchard in June.
You can’t rush these things. 20 years in the making!
#rambling #oldrose #orchard #fittleworth #bedham
There’s little I can do but stand back and watch it rampage through the carefully choreographed borders ☹️ #bindweed #bindweedwins #ducksinresidence #bronze #stone #verdant #westsussex
The old piggery flanked by beech and ferns.
#fagus #dryopteris #brick
The fresh new foliage of beech is a lively green. The delicate leaves ripple and sway en masse. Fantastic.
#fagussylvatica #beech #arundel
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Batchelor’s button, an excellent cut flower.
9 hours old... tipped as a future Olympian. #dancinghorses
Short but sweet. #Cherry #blossom
The angriest fowl
Great statues and silhouettes
Questionable pets
#amelanchier is a dream. A subtle tree, one of my favourites.
Daphne odora. Strong scent for gloomy late winter.
Within two years this delivery (beech maidens) will need 5-7 hours of maintenance from you/your gardener per year, plus mulch.
Worth every penny in this instance but a ‘hidden’ cost that’s worth bearing in mind.
#fagussylvatica #feathered #maidens #sutton
The Camellia japonicas are on form this year. They reliably provide good structure and a deep, rich green. After a mild winter their blooms are also astounding... and abundant! An essential feature of large traditionally planted gardens.
#camellia #japonica
Hydrangea just before the annual chop. A low maintenance, high value plant with interest from mid-summer through to Spring the following year.
#beautyindecay
Sun rising on the Arun Valley. @southdownsnp
February in flower.
Sea mist around Durdle Door on the Jurassic Coast. #nofilter
Beauty in decay at @hauserwirth.
The gardener’s gate.
One man’s rubble.
#stringlinesandlevels #landscaping #rubble #raisedpatio #indooroutdoor #arundel @mandarinstoneofficial #day1
Working in #Wepham, West Sussex.
What to do with all these quince?! #orchard #harvest #goodyear
Fallen leaves of an ironwood tree. An unassuming tree that’s often shadowed by larger hardwoods. 🍯
A brief break in the thunder clouds today.
#fittleworth #walnut #tree
Another season drawing to a close at (one of my) favourite places to work. #reflections
These #cosmos have to stretch that little further for evening light. -
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#earlysunset #valleylife #phototropism
The @museeorsay is fascinating as a converted building and as a museum. This softly sunlit corridor was out of bounds to the public... #kubrickperspectives #tb
Happy Friday everyone! 😄🍂 ☕️🎉
Butter-yellow tulip tree.
The landscapers have done a good job with the #Fittleworth stone, quarried from just over the way.
#design #progress
Energised and back to work after a little break to Paris. #shesaidyes 🍾
This is a formal Italian garden in #slindon, lovingly curated by the owner over the past 10 years.
The two largest beds (rose and kitchen) by the client’s admission are somewhat dated. Hopefully a fresh set of eyes can revive this stunning courtyard. @sussexwestngs
New client, new view. #ilovemyjob
“We don’t do droughts here, Tom”
#Veronicastrum and #bees @sussexprairies.
Unfortunately the #hornbeam hasn’t quite recovered from Paul’s enthusiastic use of a blow torch back in February. @sussexprairies #bestlunchbreakever
#Anemone hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’ buds and parched fields of the Norfolk Estate
Successional flowering. The #campanula cull signals a big change in this garden. Allium and Camassia are a distant memory... the fluff of midsummer is now ready for the compost heap and late bloomers are poised to flower along with a second flush of rose and geranium. -
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#hebe #cloud #buxus #cube #sunshine #hydrangea #anemone #echinacea
#marigold petals are delicious... when served with Parma, roasted carrots & goat’s cheese 🐖
Eryngium and Perovskia working well together. Silvers, blues, spikes and spires.
Hiding from the sun. #thisissummer
#landscape #monoculture #agriculture #farming
Nepeta. A delightful way to soften edges.
Naturalised foxgloves.
Working late is almost ok when you work here. #ilovemyjob
Once you look past the tiki bar sales reps, mindless garden clutter and fair weather folk... #rhschelsea is a magical place.
The catwalk spectacle is sublime and in places ridiculous... I love it. Each garden oozes the passion you hope to see from someone at (or nearing) the pinnacle of their career. Some push boundaries but some do not.
Pic taken not in a show garden but on a stall selling statues of animals in comical posses. Iris, lupin, geum and salvia.
@jothompsongarden and @tomstuartsmith both created spaces that took my breath away. Thoughtful, poetic and balanced planting... as far removed from the Chelsea buzz as possible 🏅🏅
Hawthorn, like lamb, has a very brief window of being absolutely spectacular. #maytree #mayflower
Some great feedback from new clients this week, two planting plans signed off and a new assistant starting next week. All systems go in West Sussex 😊🌱 Picture of a herbaceous border now with room to breath, below a wysteria that was earlier pruned within a node of its life.
An evening shot from yesterday's stunning garden. 40 new Euphorbia martinii bobbing away. #southdowns #tostandandstare
