Looking after lawns and gardens, the right way.
Mow · Feed · Hedges · Borders · Tidy
Looking after lawns and gardens, the right way.
Mow · Feed · Hedges · Borders · Tidy
Looking after lawns and gardens, the right way.
I'm Cam — I live just up the road in Great Preston, and Micklefield is one of the villages I already work in.
It's just me, not a crew, so the person who quotes your garden is the same person who turns up to do it. Lawns are the heart of what I do, but a garden is more than its grass, so I take on the hedges, the borders and the general jobs too. The same person every visit, season to season — that's the whole idea, and it's the thing I want to hold onto as I take on more.
The regular round is the backbone of what I do — mowing with a sharp blade, strimming and edging every visit, and feeding through the season to keep the grass thick and holding its colour.
Most lawns I'm on weekly or fortnightly through the growing months, and because it's only ever me, it's the same person turning up each time — someone who knows your lawn and how it changes across the year. I let growth lead the timing rather than the calendar, so a hot, dry spell slows the cuts down and a warm, wet week speeds them up.
Regular cuts are priced by the size of the lawn — £25 for a small one, £35 for a medium, and £55 and up for a large — the whole lawn per visit, same price every time. Seasonal feeding starts at £30. Natural methods, no harsh chemicals.
A garden is more than its lawn. I take on hedge trimming, shrub pruning, border weeding and the general jobs that stack up over a season — the kind of work that's easy to put off and makes a real difference once it's done.
I work with the plants rather than cutting everything back hard and hoping it recovers. And the thing about a garden is that keeping on top of it is the cheap part. A border I see every few weeks is a short visit — a quick weed, a tidy, and it's done. That same border left for months turns into a day's work. Little and often keeps it easy.
Hedges, shrubs and borders don't have a set price on here — every garden's different, and I'd rather look at what's actually there than guess.
Send me a few photos of the garden and I'll come back with a price.
When the mowing eases off in the cooler months, I take on a limited number of lawn renovations — scarifying to lift moss and thatch, aerating to ease compaction, and overseeding to thicken thin patches, done as one job while there's still warmth in the soil. It's priced after I've seen the lawn, since what it needs comes down to the size and the condition it's in. More on lawn renovation →
How I price a job depends on the job. For something small and clearly defined — one hedge, a few shrubs, a border that needs a tidy — a couple of photos over WhatsApp are usually all I need to give you a price. One wide shot, one close-up with something in frame for scale, and a line about what you'd like done.
For anything bigger, or where the scope isn't obvious from a photo, I'll come and look first and then give you a fixed price before I start. Either way you know what it costs before I lift a tool — no hourly rate ticking over, no surprises at the end. Mowing and feeding have set prices; hedges, shrubs, borders and general garden work I price once I've seen what's involved.
Because it's only ever me, you get the same person every visit. I get to know your garden — what I did last time, what it needs next, the corner that always floods and the shrub that hates being cut back too hard. You're not booking a rota of different faces off a van. You're booking me.
Message me and I'll get back to you, usually the same evening.
Micklefield sits between the other villages on my round. There's more on lawn care in Garforth and lawn care in Kippax, both a few minutes away.