Your area has a day, and you know which one it is
What is included and what is an extra, agreed before we start
BC Landscape and Nursery Association standards
Cloverdale, Newton, Fleetwood, Guildford and South Surrey
From roughly late spring into midsummer, grass here grows faster than a fortnightly cut can keep up with. Weekly is not an upsell in those months, it is what stops the problem below.
Taking more than about a third of the blade in a single cut stresses the plant and thins the stand. A fortnightly visit during the flush means either scalping it or leaving it long.
Spring before things take off, and autumn as growth slows, are usually fine on a fortnight. Most Surrey properties end up on a programme that changes with the season rather than one fixed number.
Through winter the visits are about beds, leaves and tidying rather than mowing. A programme that bills twelve identical months is not describing the work honestly.
| Surrey town centre | What we usually find | How the schedule works |
|---|---|---|
| Cloverdale | The largest lots in the city, a lot of it semi rural with long frontages and rough edges | Priced by the time the ground actually takes, and the mown area agreed so the boundary is not a monthly argument |
| Newton | Dense, smaller lots, and a lot of properties close together on the same street | Efficient because the route is tight, which is the one place size works in your favour |
| Fleetwood and Guildford | Established suburban housing, mature trees and beds that were planted decades ago | Bed work is the real job here, not the mowing, and it is scheduled rather than squeezed in |
| South Surrey | Larger gardens, more planting and more expectation about how the finish looks | Usually weekly through the flush, with the shrub work on dated visits rather than ad hoc |
| Whalley and City Centre | Mixed, and changing fast, with more townhouse and multi unit frontage than detached lawn | Access and parking decide the visit more than the planting does |
Whichever day your part of Surrey sits on. The city is about 316 square kilometres across six town centres, so we run it by area and your property goes on a day with its neighbours. You are told which day before the first visit, and it does not drift.
Both, usually in the same year. Through the late spring and summer flush the grass outgrows a fortnightly cut, and taking more than about a third of the blade at once stresses the lawn. Either side of that a fortnight is generally fine.
The area moves together and you hear about it. What we will not do is cut saturated ground just to keep a date, because that does more damage than a delayed visit.
Weeding the beds is part of a normal visit. Shrub and hedge work, mulch top ups, aeration and the seasonal cleanups sit on the calendar as dated visits rather than being squeezed into a mow. All of it is written down before we start.
No. Plenty of Surrey work is a single cleanup or one job. A programme is what most people land on because it is cheaper over a year than catching up twice, but it is not a condition of us turning up.
That is the intention and it is most of the value. A crew that knows where the sprinkler heads are and which bed is planting rather than weeds does a better job in less time than a rotating one.
Yes, and that is quoted separately from the schedule. Clearing a neglected property is a project; pretending it fits inside a normal visit is how people end up disappointed in both.
It comes down to the area, the access and how much bed work there is against lawn. A tight Newton lot and a Cloverdale acre are not comparable. We walk it with you, set the scope out in writing, and the number does not move.
