Planting Services – Plants, Trees and Shrubs

Transform your garden with expert planting services from Wentworth Landscaping. We specialise in plant selection, planting design, and professional installation across Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire. From specimen trees and structural shrubs to colourful perennial borders and seasonal displays, our experienced team brings horticultural expertise and design flair to create beautiful, thriving plantings that enhance your outdoor space throughout the year.

Based in Hook, Hampshire, we understand that successful planting combines horticultural knowledge with design vision. Plants must suit your garden’s conditions whilst creating the aesthetic effects you desire. Every planting scheme we create reflects careful consideration of soil, sunlight, maintenance requirements, and seasonal interest, ensuring gardens that establish quickly and flourish for years to come.

Our Planting Services

We provide comprehensive planting solutions from initial design through to establishment care. Whether you’re creating new borders, refreshing tired planting, or adding specimen features, our team delivers professional results that bring gardens to life.

Planting Design and Schemes

Successful planting begins with thoughtful design. We create planting schemes tailored to your garden’s specific conditions and your aesthetic preferences. Our designs consider soil type and pH, sunlight and shade patterns, moisture levels and drainage, exposure to wind, existing features and plants, maintenance preferences, and seasonal interest requirements.

We develop planting plans showing plant positions, quantities, and specifications. For larger projects, we provide detailed drawings and planting schedules. Our designs ensure appropriate plant spacing, layering for depth and interest, and combinations that create harmonious colour schemes and textures.

Plant Selection and Sourcing

Choosing appropriate plants is crucial for successful gardens. We source quality plants from reputable nurseries and growers, selecting healthy specimens that establish quickly and perform reliably. Our knowledge of plant varieties means we recommend cultivars offering superior performance, disease resistance, or specific characteristics suited to your requirements.

We select plants considering ultimate size to prevent overcrowding, growth rate to achieve desired effects appropriately, hardiness for local climate, maintenance requirements matching your preferences, and seasonal interest for year-round appeal.

Border Planting

Garden borders provide opportunities for creative planting combining trees, shrubs, perennials, and bulbs. We create borders offering colour, texture, and interest throughout seasons. Herbaceous borders showcase perennials in traditional cottage garden style. Mixed borders combine shrubs with perennials for year-round structure. Shrub borders create low-maintenance planting with evergreen interest.

Our border plantings establish plants at appropriate densities, avoiding both sparse appearance and overcrowding. We use mulches to suppress weeds and retain moisture, helping new plantings establish successfully.

Tree Planting

Trees provide essential structure, height, and character in gardens. We plant specimen trees as focal points, avenue trees for dramatic effects, screening trees for privacy, fruit trees for productive gardens, and native trees for wildlife value.

Correct tree planting ensures long-term success. We prepare planting pits properly, stake and secure trees appropriately, mulch around bases to suppress weeds, and provide establishment care guidance. Our expertise prevents common problems like planting too deeply or inadequate staking.

Shrub Planting

Shrubs form the backbone of many planting schemes, providing structure that perennials cannot match. We plant evergreen shrubs for year-round presence, flowering shrubs for seasonal colour, architectural shrubs for dramatic form, and hedging shrubs for boundaries and structure.

Shrub selection considers ultimate size carefully. Many garden problems result from shrubs outgrowing spaces, requiring constant pruning or eventual removal. We recommend varieties achieving appropriate mature sizes for their positions.

Perennial and Herbaceous Planting

Perennials bring seasonal colour, texture, and movement to gardens. We create perennial plantings offering spring, summer, and autumn interest, combining plants with complementary colours and flowering times. Our schemes use repetition and rhythm to create cohesive effects rather than spotty, disjointed appearance.

Perennial borders require appropriate preparation and planting. We improve soil with organic matter, plant at correct depths and spacing, and mulch to suppress weeds whilst plants establish. Well-prepared borders filled with quality plants create spectacular displays within their first season.

Seasonal Bedding and Container Planting

Seasonal bedding provides instant colour for specific periods. Spring bedding using tulips, wallflowers, and forget-me-nots creates vibrant early displays. Summer bedding with geraniums, petunias, and begonias delivers colour throughout warmer months. Winter displays using pansies, heathers, and structural evergreens maintain interest during quieter seasons.

Container planting brings colour to patios, entrances, and areas where ground planting isn’t possible. We design and plant containers offering seasonal interest, selecting appropriate compost and plants for containers’ positions and maintenance requirements.

Plants We Work With

Our planting expertise spans all plant types, ensuring gardens benefit from appropriate selections.

Trees

We plant ornamental trees offering seasonal interest through blossom, foliage, or bark, fruit trees providing productive harvests, native trees supporting local wildlife, evergreen trees for year-round structure, and specimen trees as dramatic focal points.

Popular choices include ornamental cherries and crab apples for spring blossom, Japanese maples for autumn colour, birches for attractive bark, magnolias for dramatic flowers, and rowans for berries and wildlife value.

Shrubs

Shrubs provide essential garden structure. We work with flowering shrubs like roses, hydrangeas, and viburnums, evergreen shrubs including box, holly, and photinias, architectural shrubs such as phormiums and bamboos, fragrant shrubs like lavender and daphnes, and hedge plants for boundaries and screening.

Perennials

Herbaceous perennials die back in winter and return annually with fresh growth. We use traditional cottage garden perennials like delphiniums, lupins, and peonies, ornamental grasses providing movement and texture, ferns for shade and architectural interest, late-season perennials like sedums and asters, and spring bulbs for early colour.

Climbers and Wall Plants

Climbing plants soften walls, fences, and structures whilst adding vertical interest. We plant clematis for abundant flowering, roses for traditional charm and scent, honeysuckle for fragrance and wildlife, wisteria for dramatic displays, and ivy for evergreen coverage.

Proper support systems ensure climbers establish successfully. We install appropriate trellis, wires, or supports matched to plants’ climbing methods.

Ground Cover Plants

Ground cover plants suppress weeds whilst creating attractive low planting. We use evergreen ground covers for year-round coverage, flowering ground covers adding seasonal colour, shade-tolerant plants for difficult areas, and low-maintenance varieties for extensive coverage.

Planting for Different Conditions

Successful planting requires matching plants to conditions. Our expertise ensures appropriate plant selection for every situation.

Sunny Positions

Sun-loving plants thrive in open, bright locations. We select drought-tolerant plants for hot, dry areas, Mediterranean plants for warm microclimates, flowering perennials requiring good light, and grasses that perform best in sunshine.

Shaded Areas

Many gardens include shaded areas where plant selection requires care. We use shade-tolerant shrubs like rhododendrons and camellias, woodland perennials such as hostas and ferns, ground covers that flourish in low light, and bulbs that flower before trees leaf out.

Damp or Waterlogged Areas

Gardens with moisture retention require plants tolerating wet conditions. We select moisture-loving perennials, bog plants for very wet areas, trees and shrubs adapted to damp soil, and plants thriving in heavy clay.

Where drainage can be improved, we can coordinate planting with drainage solutions ensuring plants establish successfully.

Dry or Free-Draining Soils

Sandy or chalky soils drain quickly, requiring drought-tolerant plants. We select Mediterranean plants, silver-leaved plants adapted to dry conditions, grasses tolerating low moisture, and perennials with deep root systems.

Improving moisture retention through organic matter incorporation helps all plants establish, even those adapted to dry conditions.

Coastal Gardens

Coastal locations experience salt-laden winds requiring tough, wind-resistant plants. We select plants with salt tolerance, wind-resistant shrubs and trees, tough ground covers, and natives adapted to exposed conditions.

Planting Styles and Themes

We create plantings suited to various garden styles and design themes.

Traditional Cottage Garden Planting

Cottage gardens feature abundant informal planting with roses, perennials, and self-seeding annuals creating romantic, colourful effects. We design cottage plantings using traditional plant combinations, allowing some natural informality whilst maintaining overall coherence.

Contemporary and Architectural Planting

Modern gardens emphasise structure and form through architectural plants. We create contemporary schemes using ornamental grasses, evergreen structural plants, limited colour palettes, bold foliage plants, and repetition of key specimens.

Wildlife-Friendly Planting

Gardens designed for wildlife use native plants, nectar-rich flowers, berry-bearing shrubs, and plants providing habitat. We create wildlife schemes supporting pollinators, providing food for birds, attracting beneficial insects, and creating diverse habitats.

Low-Maintenance Planting

Clients wanting beautiful gardens without extensive upkeep benefit from low-maintenance planting. We design schemes using evergreen shrubs requiring minimal pruning, tough perennials needing little attention, ground cover plants suppressing weeds, and drought-tolerant plants reducing watering needs.

Tropical and Exotic Planting

For dramatic effects, exotic plantings use large-leaved plants, bold flowers, unusual forms, and lush growth creating jungle-like aesthetics. Hardy exotics withstand British winters whilst delivering tropical appearance during growing season.

Planting Installation Process

Professional planting installation ensures plants establish successfully and perform well long-term.

Site Preparation

Thorough preparation creates optimal conditions for plant establishment. We clear existing vegetation and weeds, improve soil structure and fertility, address drainage issues where necessary, create appropriate planting beds and levels, and apply initial mulches if beneficial.

Soil Improvement

Most soils benefit from improvement before planting. We incorporate organic matter to improve structure, add specific amendments for pH adjustment, improve drainage in heavy soils, and increase moisture retention in sandy soils.

Planting Technique

Correct planting technique is crucial. We dig holes appropriate to root ball size, plant at correct depths avoiding too deep or shallow, backfill carefully ensuring good soil contact, water thoroughly at installation, and stake trees appropriately.

These details prevent common problems causing plant failures. Many planting issues result from incorrect technique rather than poor plant selection.

Mulching

Applying mulch around new planting suppresses weeds, retains moisture, moderates soil temperature, and improves appearance. We use organic mulches like bark or compost that break down over time, improving soil. Proper mulching significantly aids establishment.

Initial Care

Newly planted specimens require care whilst establishing. We provide detailed care instructions covering watering requirements during establishment, ongoing maintenance needs, and monitoring for problems. For larger projects, we can provide establishment care ensuring plants settle successfully.

Combining Planting with Garden Design

Planting works best integrated with comprehensive garden design. We create schemes where planting complements hard landscaping including patios, driveways, and paths.

Planting softens fencing and walls, creates privacy screening, and frames outdoor entertaining areas. Strategic planting combined with garden lighting creates dramatic evening effects.

For low-maintenance gardens, combining limited planting with artificial grass and quality hard landscaping reduces upkeep whilst maintaining beauty.

Why Choose Wentworth Landscaping for Planting?

Wentworth Landscaping brings three decades of combined experience to every planting project. We combine horticultural knowledge with design expertise, creating plantings that thrive whilst looking magnificent.

Horticultural Expertise

Our team possesses genuine plant knowledge developed through years of hands-on experience. We understand plant requirements, appropriate growing conditions, and how to achieve successful establishment. This expertise prevents costly mistakes and ensures plantings flourish.

Design Capability

As specialists in garden design, we create cohesive planting schemes rather than random plant collections. Our designs consider colour, texture, form, and seasonal progression, creating gardens with genuine impact.

Quality Plant Sourcing

We source quality plants from reputable suppliers, selecting healthy specimens that establish quickly. Our relationships with nurseries ensure access to excellent plant material at fair prices.

Professional Installation

Harry Rudge, our Head Landscaper with over a decade of experience, ensures every planting meets our exacting standards. Correct installation technique dramatically affects long-term success, which is why we never rush planting despite time pressures.

Comprehensive Service

We coordinate planting with other garden improvements seamlessly. Whether creating complete garden transformations or refreshing existing spaces, we manage all elements efficiently. We can also provide ongoing garden maintenance ensuring plantings continue thriving.

Areas We Serve

Based in Hook, Hampshire, we provide planting services throughout Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire. We’re proud to serve local communities including Odiham, Fleet, Hartley Wintney, Yateley, Basingstoke, Winchester, Alton, Farnham, and throughout the wider region.

Being locally based means we understand local growing conditions, soil types, and appropriate plant selections for our climate. Many planting projects come through recommendations from clients delighted with thriving, beautiful gardens.

Get Your Free Planting Consultation Today

Ready to bring your garden to life with beautiful planting? Contact Wentworth Landscaping today for a free, no-obligation consultation. We’ll visit your garden, discuss your preferences, assess growing conditions, and provide expert recommendations on planting schemes suited to your property and lifestyle.

Our planting services come with complete peace of mind, backed by horticultural expertise, quality plants, professional installation, and three decades of combined experience. Call us today to arrange your free consultation and discover why homeowners across Hampshire trust Wentworth Landscaping for expert planting services.

Let us create the beautiful, thriving plantings your garden deserves. Beautiful landscaping for beautiful homes.