Routine cuts done properly, on every species we work with.

What's included

• Top, sides and front face cut to your chosen height and width
• All arisings cleared from site and disposed of properly (taken to a licensed waste site)
• Brush-down of the path, drive or Regency-terrace pavement underneath
• Six-week section-211 notice filed on your behalf if you're in the Ramsgate CA and the hedge has any stems over 75mm at chest height
• Fixed price quoted in advance: no day-rate creep

Pricing

Most routine cuts in Ramsgate fall in the £120 – £400 range depending on hedge length, height, and how much access we need. We give a fixed price after seeing photos and the postcode, no surprises on the day, no charge if the quote isn't accepted.

Timing by species

The best window depends on what you're growing, and, on a Ramsgate seafront, whether you're on the exposed line or set back.

• Griselinia, Elaeagnus, Euonymus, Olearia, Pittosporum: the coastal palette. Cut late spring after the flush hardens and again in early autumn if it's had a good growing year. Never right before an easterly gale window if we can help it.
• Privet, Leylandii, thuja: fast-growing, often needs two cuts a year (late spring and late summer).
• Beech, hornbeam: single late-summer cut. Hornbeam is the safer bet on Thanet's shallow chalk-over-Thanet-Sand soils; beech scorches inland in a dry August.
• Yew: single late-August cut; yew is happy with a hard clip once a year and resentful of more.
• Holly, laurel: late summer; both bruise easily, so we prefer secateurs and loppers on visible faces over a hedge trimmer where time allows.
• Native mixed (hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, sea buckthorn): winter only (September to February) to comply with nesting law.
• Tamarix: spring-flowering forms (T. tetrandra, T. parviflora) after flowering in June; summer-flowering T. ramosissima late winter to early spring on current-year wood.

What we don't do on cutting jobs

If a hedge needs more than a routine cut, it's overgrown, gappy, leaning after a winter of easterlies, or has outgrown the position, that's a reduction job, not a cut. We'll tell you that at quote stage rather than do a botched cut and pretend it solved the problem.