Garden care in Edinburgh since 2015
Your garden, kept all year.
Fernhill is Morven Baird, a trained horticulturist, and her small team. We look after gardens on regular visits, fortnightly or monthly, and take every clipping away with us.
Ask for a free garden visit
Call 0131 496 0219
Visits from £68, fortnightly or monthly
The same gardeners, on the same day
Every clipping taken away
On every visit: the lawn mown and edged, the borders weeded.
Every other week, the same gardeners.
Your garden gets a day on our round and gardeners who know it. Fortnightly from April to October, monthly through the winter, and the price of a visit stays the same.
On every visit
The lawn mowed and its edges cut
Borders and paths weeded
Deadheading, and pruning whatever is due
Climbers tied in; pots watered and fed in summer
Swept up, and every clipping taken away
A text afterwards: what we did, what we noticed
Quiet battery tools, and no blowers before nine.
What a visit costs
Small garden
A front garden, a back green or a courtyard. One gardener, about two hours.
£68
a visit
Medium garden
Most terrace and villa back gardens. Two gardeners, about two hours.
£136
a visit
Large garden
Two gardeners, about four hours.
£272
a visit
Bigger gardens are priced after the free visit. Extra work is £34 an hour per gardener. No contract: a month's notice to stop or pause.
“The van's at the gate by nine every other Thursday, and by lunchtime the hedge is square and every bag's gone.”
Graham, Stockbridge
Hedges and small trees
Cut to the line.
Most hedges need one cut a year, from late August, once the birds have finished nesting. We set a line, cut to it, and take every clipping away.
Hedges
Once a year for most, twice for privet. Long villa hedges run £240–£420.
From £120
Small trees
Up to about eight metres. Bigger trees go to a tree surgeon we trust.
From £180
What we do, season by season.
Edinburgh's spring runs a fortnight behind London's, and the frosts hang on into May. So we work to the garden, not to the calendar.
Spring
March to May
First cuts, a spring feed and fresh edges
Borders weeded, cut back and mulched
Roses and late shrubs pruned in March
Summer bulbs in once the frosts are past
Summer
June to August
Mowing on every visit
Deadheading, so the flowering carries on
Pots watered and fed; tall plants staked
Wisteria pruned in July; hedges left for nesting birds
Autumn
September to November
Hedges cut, square and true
Lawns scarified, aerated and fed
Leaves cleared; spring bulbs planted
Seed heads left standing for the birds
Winter
December to February
Fruit trees and shrubs pruned while dormant
Bare-root hedging and roses planted
Paths, beds and raised beds built
Monthly visits; we keep off frozen lawns
Lawns, planting and small projects.
Alongside your visits or on their own, and always priced before we start.
Lawn care plan
Five treatments a year: a spring feed and moss control, two summer feeds, an autumn scarify, aerate and feed, and a winter check.
£195
a year, lawns up to 100 m²
£285
a year, 100–250 m²
Planting plans
Morven draws the plan, with plants chosen for your soil, your light and the time you have. Plants at the nursery's price; peat-free compost only.
£180
for one border
from £420
for a whole garden
Small projects
Paths, new beds, raised vegetable beds and steel lawn edging, built in the quiet months by the same team. No walls, decking or big patios.
£1,180
two larch raised beds, filled
£1,650
a 12-metre gravel path
Garden clearances
From £180 for a van load.
Extra hours
£34 an hour per gardener.
Green waste
Always taken away and composted, never sent to landfill.
Gardeners, not mow-and-blow.
Morven trained in horticulture and spent nine years on a walled garden in East Lothian before she started Fernhill in 2015, with one van and twelve gardens in Morningside. It's named after the fern bank at the foot of her grandmother's garden in Colinton, where she learned to weed.
So we know what we're looking at: which shrubs flower on last year's wood, which seedlings to leave, and when a hedge should be left alone.
Morven Baird
Horticulturist, since 2015
Callum Reid
Hedges and trees, since 2017
Aileen Shaw
Borders and planting, since 2020
Jamie Forsyth
Apprentice gardener, since 2025
“Morven knew every plant in the garden by name, and which ones to leave alone. Three years on, it's never looked better.”
Alison, Morningside
Six parts of Edinburgh, each with its day.
Morningside
Bruntsfield
Stockbridge
Portobello
Corstorphine
Colinton
We work one area a day, so your gardeners come on the same weekday every time: Corstorphine and Colinton on Mondays, Morningside on Tuesdays, Bruntsfield on Wednesdays, Stockbridge on Thursdays and Portobello on Fridays.
Just outside those? Ask. If we're passing, we'll fit you in.
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Ask for a free garden visit.
Morven comes round, walks the garden with you and asks what you'd like from it. It takes about 45 minutes, and it costs nothing.
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We come round
About 45 minutes, at a time that suits you. No charge and no obligation.
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A plan and a price
Written down within three working days: what the garden needs through the year, and what a visit costs.
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Your day on the round
The same gardeners every visit, on your area's day.
Rather talk?
0131 496 0219
WhatsApp 07700 900219
hello@fernhillgardencare.co.uk
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm
Ask for a free garden visit