The standards of horticultural maintenance that our customers can expect are:
Grass areas
- Grass cutting will be carried out in a safe and professional manner
- We will endeavour to keep grass on the highway and within many of parks and open spaces, between 50mm and 100mm in height, subject to weather conditions
- Football pitch areas will be kept between 75mm (max.) and 25mm (min.). Other sports areas have other heights standards dependent upon the sport.
- Any cuttings which fall onto paths will be swept or blown back onto the grass area by the end of that working day
- Areas planted with drifts of bulbs will be cut around until the bulb foliage has died down Approximately six weeks after flowering, all bulb foliage will be cut and removed
- No grass clipping will be collected or boxed, apart from the ornamental grass areas
- All meadows will be cut, once the flowers have set seed, usually by mid September depending upon weather conditions
Planted areas
- Weeds in rose and shrub beds will be controlled by hand-weeding, mulching and chemical control. Any litter within the planted area will be removed at the time of visit
- Shrubs will be pruned in accordance with horticultural standards and encroachment e.g. cutting back off footpaths
- Rose and shrub beds will be pruned throughout the year
- Dead flower heads and suckers will be removed from rose bushes
Hedges
- Hedges generally will be cut in July to November after the nesting season and any growth should not exceed set standards, except highway hedges which fall under the control of Warwickshire County Council
Trees
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