Gardening Services in Cascais

About our service in Cascais

Grass in this area grows in two bursts, spring and again after the autumn rain, and it very nearly stops in the heat of August. A lawn kept on a regular cycle through those bursts thickens and begins to shade out its own weeds; the same lawn left for six weeks and then cut hard goes yellow and spends most of a season recovering. That is why we agree a visit calendar rather than a single frequency for the whole year: closer together while everything is growing, spaced out in high summer and midwinter, with hedges and shrubs taken at the point in the year that suits the species rather than whenever the van happens to be passing. Salt is the local constraint that catches people out. On the seaward side of a plot the wind burns the tips of anything soft and dries the ground faster than an owner expects, so we lean on plants that shrug it off and use tougher material as a screen for the rest. Watering matters even more than the plant list. A system that runs for a few minutes every evening keeps roots in the top layer of soil, exactly where the summer sun finds them; longer runs, further apart, early in the morning, send roots down and lose far less to evaporation. Mains water here is hard, so emitters clog and foliage gets marked, and flushing the lines and cleaning drippers belongs in the routine. A good number of Cascais gardens belong to people who are only here part of the year. For those we keep the beds and lawn in hand while the house is shut and send photographs after a visit, so you can see what was done and what is due next. Mature trees come with one caution worth knowing before you buy a planted plot: several species in Portugal are legally protected, cork oak and holm oak among them, and olives are covered by their own rules, so felling one can require authorisation. We identify the tree first and will not take one down on request alone. Maintenance pruning is a separate matter and we carry that out normally. Prunings leave with us for a licensed disposal point. Land left to go wild is clearance work, which is a different service.

Gardening work we take on in Cascais:

Services Included

• Lawn mowing and upkeep on a calendar that follows the growing season
• Pruning of trees, hedges and shrubs at the right point in the year
• Irrigation installed, repaired and flushed to cope with hard water
• Planting and transplanting with species that tolerate salt wind
• Garden clearing and ongoing maintenance for houses closed part of the year

Areas We Serve

We work across Cascais centro, Birre, Quinta da Marinha, Torre, Manique, Alcabideche and the exposed plots out towards Guincho.

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