About Ace Garden Services                                            Working in Torbay                                          

A selection of tulips in a front garden next to a large green very close to the sea at Meadfoot beach. The garden is also full of blue bells early in the year and is very much enjoyed by those on the area.

 

 

  With over twenty years of horticulture and garden development, Ace Garden Services has much to offer you and your garden. We offer garden maintenance on a regular basis as well as garden development and garden design if required.      

 

Spanish and English blue bells growing with Alliums, wild spring onions and Cylamen and Scillas and Hellebores.

The Alliums try and take over, but never quite succeed.      

Bush roses grown in a group should be planted together like this more often. If fed at the correct times the length of the flowering season is amazing coupled with early and late flowering roses. 

The pruning and care of the roses has produced a lovely summer display. 

 I am now undertaking mainly garden maintenance with some garden development. It is work that I have done for many years. I initially qualified as a tree surgeon after dong a three year course in Arboriculture. Then spent time landscaping and this lead into maintaining large gardens,.which then meant that I could design these gardens and work on improving them, and learn new skills like building natural stone retaining walls, and how to use garden design computer programs. My tree surgery helped with dealing with large high hedges and obviously the trees. I had a good grounding in plant knowledge from my time at college and  this also covered, soil, pests and diseases and growing techniques, chemicals etc, so working in large gardens was an obvious thing to do to put all my knowledge and skills to good use. The business grew and I then had I had to learn how to manage a team of employees. After the 2008 economic crash we focussed mainly on maintaining medium to large gardens. l                                                                                                                                                  For about 14 years we looked after the TLH hotel gardens in Torquay and developed all of the gardens, we  won the Torbay in Bloom competition in the large hotel category about six times and we were usually second if we did not win, we also won the environmentally friendly award for TLH, plus winning in two other categories. I am now wroking on my own due to the Covid lockdowns etc.             

This steep bank allows the planting scheme to be seen from the house lower down the sloping garden. It also enabled us to create a small level lawn area above it, with views down the valley.    

A hidden archway leading to the secret garden as long, as you can find the secret path.

Designing this area for the hotel guests meant that it had to have some interest throughout the year. Ornamental grasses were added later on, which added a lot during the winter months.

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Winter design. The ornamental grasses and the New Zealand Flax and the Palms with their dark red leaves and the snow drift up against the grasses went well with the mulled wine.