Start with a full garden tidy-up rather than trying to bring an overgrown garden back under control through routine maintenance visits — a tidy-up is a one-off reset designed specifically for this situation.
An overgrown garden usually has several problems layered on top of each other: grass that's grown too long to simply mow, beds lost under weeds and self-seeded growth, hedges or shrubs that have spread well beyond their space, and general accumulated debris. Trying to fix all of this through a normal fortnightly maintenance visit doesn't work — there's simply too much to do in a standard visit, and a garden that's this far gone needs a different kind of session.
A proper tidy-up clears the overgrowth in one focused visit (or occasionally two, for a very large or badly overgrown garden): cutting back brambles and overgrown shrubs, clearing weeds from beds and borders, getting the lawn back down to a manageable length over more than one cut if needed, and removing everything that's cleared rather than leaving it in piles.
Once a garden's been reset this way, it's usually straightforward to move onto a regular garden maintenance schedule to keep it that way — the hard part is the initial reset, not keeping on top of it afterwards. This is one of the most requested jobs we see across Preston and Lancashire, particularly after a house move or a long period where a garden's been left unattended.
GreenFix provides garden tidy-ups across Preston and Lancashire. From £80 (per visit, guide price only).
