Hamptons interviews Jack Bingham of 'JB Groundcare'

JB Groundcare Ltd is an experienced company of professional garden experts, offering the full range of garden services. Primarily we are horticulturalists, but the main part of our business is building beautiful gardens, including design, restoration, landscaping and planting, followed, of course, by the all-important on-going maintenance.

So you’ve collected the keys from Hamptons and moved into a new house with a generous sized garden but no character or features. What’s the first step?

Welcome to your new home! Once you have settled in, you might want some advice on improving your garden. We can help!

We can offer a free-of-charge, no obligation visit to advise on how to improve and enhance the garden. We offer a full garden design and build service, with all works and planting being implemented efficiently and professionally by our specialist landscaping and gardening teams. Whatever your style and requirements, we can create the garden of your dreams to suit both your budget and your ability to maintain the garden in the future.

I guess people are influenced by things they see at gardening shows. What sort of things are on trend at the moment?

Wild gardens are currently hugely popular. Meadows filled with bee- and insectfriendly flowers abound and we applaud this trend. For many years, we have promoted environmentally friendly gardens incorporating space for you and your family to use and enjoy, as well as making areas where the natural world will thrive. When it comes to design, the choice is yours. We can create a classical English country garden, an ultra-modern, minimalist scheme, or a cottage garden filled with roses and delphiniums. Your shout! Your garden will be your individual, personal space and we will ensure it is stimulating, inspirational, and a joy to all who experience it.

What if a client is selling a house and needs to add some kerb appeal, they may not want to invest as much a buyer, what would you suggest?

Thinking of selling? Does your garden need a facelift? We can offer a free-of-charge, no obligation garden visit to discuss ideas to enhance and improve the place for the all-important sale photographs, and for the period when the property is on the market. We will work within a budget to tweak the garden so it looks its very best.

Do your clients have specific ideas about what they want or do they more often give you a blank canvas to work with?

Every client is unique and each garden is too. We are happy to tailor our work to suit the requirements of the clients and their family and to create a scheme that sits well with the architecture of the house, and works with the soil and countryside around. JB Groundcare Ltd will turn your vision into a reality, and if needs be, we will hold your hand through the design process so you end up with the garden that you want. We are never short of ideas!

Does it matter what time in the year people contact you?

We work all the year round and the office is always open! There are, of course, better times of year to undertake various works and planting jobs but we work with the seasons to ensure the least disturbance and the finest results for our clients.

www.jb-groundcare.co.uk. 07899 100 071