Clive’s Gardening Services t/a Ribble Valley Gardening Services Ltd know the right time of year to cut your species of a hedge. CGS also know the months when you cannot cut hedges due to the bird’s nesting season.
Hedge services CGS provide:
Hedge reduction
Annual hedge trimming
Hedge trimming in annual garden maintenance programmes.
Hedge treatments to keep your hedging green and lush.
Topiary trimming
Shaping
Paddock hedge maintenance
Clive has all the best equipment available for hedging work from proper hedging Henchman ladders to 8- and 12-foot options. Through to Stihl hedge trimmers for larger hedges and eco-friendly battery-powered hedge trimmers for smaller garden hedges.
Below the eight-foot and twelve-foot tripod ladder each with three adjustable legs for use on uneven ground. Below they were being used to trim honeysuckle and wisteria on a cottage in Wiswell, Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley.
As Clive’s Gardening Services are doing the 2025 Challenge, we use Ego battery-powered equipment where we can, currently, we have an Ego hedge trimmer, Ego blower, and Ego chainsaw with other battery-powered equipment currently on order. Battery-powered equipment reduces noise pollution for the client and neighbours, plus has no smelly fumes.
Read more about Challenge 2025 on their website: https://www.challenge2025.eu
1 Hedge Reduction
As a hedge is a living boundary constantly growing up as well as across annual maintenance is a must to keep hedges under control. The slideshow below shows an ad hoc client who has this conifer reduced and shaped annually.
2 Hedge Trimming
Clive’s Gardening Services trim lots of different varieties of hedging, below are some before and after shots.
Large copper beach before and after
Yew hedge before and after images
Conifer hedge before and after
Reducing the width of a conifer
Mixed hedging
Low box hedging
Large laurel after image
Privet after cutting
3 Hedge trimming in annual garden maintenance programmes.
If you have booked in with Clive’s Gardening Services for regular garden maintenance, and lawn care. Make sure your hedges are also trimmed so your hedges don’t get out of hand and ruin your property’s kerb appeal.
4 Hedge treatments to keep your hedging green and lush.
If your hedges leaves are yellow instead of green give Clive’s Gardening Services a call and we will get the required treatment, so your hedges leaves are nice and dark green again.
5 Topiary
Whether you have box spirals to shape, or conifer cloud trees Clive can shape them all for you. Some examples of Clive’s work are below.
Topiary Cloud Tree Images Before and After.
Topiary spirals
Topiary pyramids
Topiary before & after
Big topiary ball
6. Shaping
Shaping Conifers before & after image
Heather images before and after shaping (path)
Before & After images Shaping of climbing hydrangea, variegated laurel, and conifer
Before & after Portuguese laurel
7 Paddock hedge maintenance
As well as topping paddocks with our ride-on-side discharge mower Clive’s Gardening services also offer hedge cutting around small fields, paddocks, and orchards.
Images below show some beech hedging trimmed earlier this year. Images below show the beech hedging down the side of a paddock.
Images below show the beech hedging down both sides of an orchard.
Let CGS supply you with a free no-obligation quote for your hedges.
What our clients have said
Marion – Clayton le Moores
5 Star Review
Positive: Professionalism, Punctuality, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
I have used Clive Gardening Services for the past couple of years & the results of Clive’s work have been fantastic! He has cut & shaped my trees as well as conifer hedges. I wouldn’t use anyone else as he is so reliable & always tidies up all cuttings. I highly recommend CGS to anyone who requires his wide range of expertise!
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Liesl – Ramsgreaves
5 Star Review
Positive: Professionalism, Punctuality, Quality
Clive does a great job, is professional and helpful too.
I would recommend him without reservation for any kind of Gardening work.
Thanks, Clive.
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Richard – Wilpshire
5 Star Review
Positive: Professionalism, Punctuality, Quality, Responsiveness
Clive has been polite, professional, and responsive in all aspects of his work. He is knowledgeable and gave lots of gardening tips. Hard-working and friendly. I would highly recommend him.
Thanks, Clive!
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Richard & Catherine – Wiswell, Ribble Valley
5 Star Review
‘Fantastic work by both Clive and his assistant. Very professional, courteous, and constantly in touch with the customer.
Clive has attention to detail and takes pride in his work. We will use it again and would highly recommend it.
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Mick & Barbara – Wiswell, Ribble Valley
5 Star Review
Clive worked next door and impressed us by cutting a huge beech hedge, so we approached Clive and asked them to do work for us. He worked hard all afternoon trimming our Ivy and Laurel hedges and shaping bushes.
A job well done! Thank you
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Pamela – Wiswell
Excellent work….and lovely man! He certainly knows his onions!!
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Nancy – Clitheroe
I am just confirming that I have paid for you cutting the hedge today, this evening.
Thanks very much, we are pleased with the job you completed and I’m sure we will use your services again in the future and recommend you to other people.
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Lynda – Wiswell
“Great job with the hedge Clive, thank you”
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Angela – Walton le Dale
“The garden looks fantastic; you’ve done a great job. Plus, your work rate is incredible!! “
