Planting in Houston

Scotia Maintenance covers Houston 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.

Hedging is a particular feature here. Long boundary hedges give shelter and privacy but need cutting properly and at the right time to stay dense to the base. A hedge that has been topped without attention to the sides gradually thins out and stops doing its job. Where hedges have been left too long, taking them back to a manageable line is a job worth doing once, properly, rather than trimming the outside of an ever-expanding shape each year.

Planting in Houston 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 Houston 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.