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Happy Gardens provides all your softscaping needs with high-quality garden maintenance and plant care across Kendal and South Lakes.
Expert Services
Keep your garden looking its best with regular visits tailored to the season. From weeding and pruning to mowing and tidy-ups, I’ll keep everything healthy, neat and manageable.
Seasonal Garden Maintenance / Garden Round
Specialist pruning and plant care to keep your garden thriving. I work at the right time of year to improve shape, flowering and long-term health—so your plants look their best.
Specialist Plant Care and Pruning
Not sure what to do next with your garden? I can help you plan planting, structure and colour for the year ahead, with practical ideas that suit your space and how you use it.
Design and planning
Has your garden got out of hand? I offer one-off tidy-ups and clearances to get things back under control—cutbacks, removals and a fresh, clean start at any time of year.
One off Jobs and Clearances
Want to learn what to do and when? I offer friendly, hands-on coaching in your own garden so you can feel confident with pruning, plant care and seasonal jobs.
Garden Help and Coaching
Join me for guided walks and small workshops that blend plant knowledge, observation, and place-based learning. Themes include winter twig ID (with a forensic eye), plant gratitude, plant blindness, and how geology shapes what grows where
Events, Walks & Talks
Qualifications
Myerscough College
One year of study combining hands-on horticulture with plant science and professional practice, alongside related RHS and City & Guilds units.
RHS
RHS Level 2 Practical Horticulture — Distinction.
RHS Level 2 Plant Growth & Development — Pass.
RHS member; regular visits to RHS gardens and shows.
City and Guilds
City & Guilds qualified: Pedestrian mower and ATV.
PA1 + PA6 certified (IPM-first; pesticides are a last resort).
Volunteering
Growing well
Levens Hall
RHS flower show Wentworth 2025
Volunteered at Growing Well and Levens Hall (plus occasional subcontract work). Also helped dismantle an award-winning garden at RHS Flower Show Wentworth 2025.
British Academy of Garden Design
Currently studying Year 1 Advanced Diploma in Garden Design, building on my RHS horticultural training.
About Me
Making gardens happier, one visit at a time!
After a 22-year career in the police forensic service, I decided it was time to return to my roots—my love of plants, the outdoors and gardening.
I spent the next two years studying and volunteering in a wide range of gardens, and gained my RHS Level 2 qualifications at Myerscough College, achieving a distinction. I now bring that practical experience and attention to detail to every garden I care for.
Gallery
Tree and shrub pruning
Winter is the ideal time for many pruning jobs. This mulberry had become overgrown and congested, so I carried out regenerative pruning to restore shape and vigour and reduce water shoots.
Neglected Garden Corner Refresh
Softened with grasses, variegated evergreens and structural foliage to give winter interest making neglected corner, the focal point
Garden round
Planted the client’s new plants, refreshed the border and cut a crisp, straight edge for a neat, finished look.
Specialist Wisteria Pruning
This Wisteria is before a Specialist pruning to restore structure, improve airflow and encourage stronger flowering.
Back Garden
Restyle
A budget-friendly back garden refresh, with simple changes and new planting to create a tidier, more usable space.
Front Garden
Re-turf
Re-turfed the front garden, replacing a tired diamond-shaped lawn with fresh, level turf for a clean, smart finish.
How can Happy Gardens Kendal make benefit you?
Free up your
time
Regular care, without the weekend stress
Reconnect with nature
A garden you’ll actually enjoy being in
Boost your well being
Calmer, greener space to unwind
Understand your garden
Simple advice that makes a big difference
Happy Gardens Events
Date and time is TBDLocation is TBDEver walked through nature and only noticed the “big stuff”? This session explores plant blindness — why we overlook plants — and simple ways to start seeing what’s been there all along
Time is TBDLocation is TBDPlants make gratitude easy. On this walk we’ll notice the everyday gifts of plants, using them as gentle anchors for appreciation. Gratitude can lift mood, steady the mind, and shift perspective — and you’ll learn simple ways to practise it anytime you spot something growing.
Time is TBDLocation is TBDWe’ll use simple noticing techniques to tune into the flora and fauna around us, observe thoughts as they come and go, and make space for quiet reflection. We’ll also add hot/cold contrast (sauna and swim) for the body — a grounding, invigorating reset.
Time is TBDLocation is TBDLearn to identify trees and shrubs in winter using buds, bark, leaf scars and branching patterns — with a forensic twist, shaped by years of forensic science experience and “clue-based” techniques you can reuse on your walks.