Planting in Erskine

Scotia Maintenance covers Erskine and the surrounding Renfrewshire area seven days a week, 7 days, 8am–4pm. Quotes are free and given after seeing the garden, and there is no requirement to set up a recurring arrangement to get a single job done.

The dominant environmental factor is wind. Gardens on the north side of the town, close to the river and the approach to the Erskine Bridge, are genuinely exposed. Wind coming up the Clyde carries salt, and planting that would be perfectly happy a few miles inland gets scorched and stunted here. Choosing wind and salt tolerant species, and establishing shelter on the exposed boundary first, is the difference between planting that establishes and planting that limps along for two seasons before being replaced.

Planting in Erskine is chosen after looking at the garden rather than from a list. Exposure, light, shelter and what the soil is actually like vary street by street, and a scheme that thrives in a sheltered back garden will not survive on an open plot a few hundred metres away. Species are picked to hold up through a Scottish winter rather than to look their best on the day they go in.

Planting in Erskine is chosen on site after looking at the exposure, the light and what the soil is actually like, because the same border scheme does not work on every street.