Planting in Glasgow

Scotia Maintenance covers Glasgow and the surrounding Glasgow City 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 sandstone terraces and villas of the west end and parts of the southside have deeper, more established rear gardens, often heavily shaded by mature trees and neighbouring buildings. Shade is the recurring problem: grass thins under it, moss takes the gaps, and planting has to be chosen for low light rather than for how it looks in a sunny border. Reworking a permanently struggling shaded lawn into something that suits the conditions is frequently better value than fighting it every season.

Planting in Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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.