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Winter Gardening: 10 Essential Tasks To Keep Busy And Prepare For Spring

Here are 10 essential winter gardening tasks that will help you make the most of the season.

Autumn Gardening Tips - What To Plant In Your Garden During The Autumn Months

Here are some autumn gardening suggestions to help you make the most of the season.

The Benefits Of Using A Drone In Landscape Design

The use of drones has become increasing popular in many industries, including landscaping. Its a key tool that helps us to save time and money by streamlining the surveying process.

Garden Zoning - How To Maximize Space And Style In Your Garden

Our gardens are fast becoming multifunctional spaces, they play a different role for every member of the family. Garden zoning can turn your garden from a one-dimensional space, into a series of beautiful outdoor rooms – from relaxing places to lounge, to children's play areas and more.

Flowers for the Lord Trenchard Memorial

On Thursday 9th February the RAF Benevolent Fund held an annual memorial for The Father of the Royal Airforce, Lord Trenchard. The memorial was held in the RAF chapel in Westminster Abbey, and Hortlands were immensely proud to provide the wreaths that were laid in memory.

Cutting Edge Design - The Art Of Topiary

With its precise clipping and sculptural shapes, topiary has the power to turn a garden into a work of art.

Festive Floral YouTube Vlog with Leonora Smee

When Leonora Smee asked our florist Steph, to help her with the festive flowers and décor in the house for Christmas, we were delighted. Even more so when we were told that Leonora wanted to feature the set up on her YouTube vlog!

What Is Commercial Grounds Maintenance?

Commercial grounds maintenance, also described as commercial garden maintenance, is horticultural management that's tailored specifically towards a business.

How To Plant A Tree

Hortlands are tree planting specialists. We offer our planting services throughout the UK, where our highly trained tree and hedge installers ensure successful establishment of all our trees and hedges.

Vertical Mulching Mature Trees

Vertical mulching is a process carried out by injecting pressurised air, via an air spade, into the soil surrounding the root system of a tree. This creates a vertical void in the soil between the roots. These voids are then backfilled with a mixture of grit, organic matter and slow release fertilizer.