Beds that have been planted for years — the job is keeping shape, weeding before it takes over, and deadheading, not deciding what goes where.
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An established lifestyle-block garden and a newer bed near the highway corner need different attention — one wants tidying and control, the other wants establishing and shaping. We run both on a schedule that suits the garden, not a generic round.
A rough size and what’s bothering you most helps us scope the visit.
What “maintenance” means changes with the property.
Beds that have been planted for years — the job is keeping shape, weeding before it takes over, and deadheading, not deciding what goes where.
Younger garden beds on newer sections need formative shaping and mulching to establish well, more than a quick weed.
Many Te Puna properties have an established garden closer to the house and newer or orchard-edge planting further out — we scope each part separately.
Same neglect, different failure mode.
An established Te Puna lifestyle-block garden left unattended for a season doesn’t die — it goes the other way. Weeds get ahead of the beds, self-seeding plants spread past their spot, and what was tidy structure turns into a green blur that takes real hours to bring back.
Newer planting on a highway-corner section fails differently. Without early formative pruning it grows leggy and uneven rather than filling in properly — a shape problem more than a weed problem, and harder to correct later than to get right early.
We scope the visit to which of those two problems your garden actually has. An established bed gets weeded and controlled; new planting gets shaped while it’s still forming.
Scoped to the garden, every time.
The same visit, every round — weeded, pruned, edged, cleared.
We’ll flag anything bigger than a routine visit before starting. A garden that’s gone well past its last tidy sometimes needs a first catch-up visit priced separately from the ongoing rate.
Both common here, and neither gets the other’s treatment.
Te Puna’s mix of long-settled lifestyle blocks and a smaller, newer pocket near the highway corner means we see both garden types every week — mature beds that just need holding in shape, and young planting that’s still finding its shape. We scope maintenance to which one we’re looking at.
Tell us which kind of garden you’ve got when you enquire. We’ll scope the first visit accordingly rather than quoting a generic rate that doesn’t fit either.
Fixed once we’ve looked. Green waste and GST are both already in it.
Regular visits are cheaper per visit than one-offs. A garden kept on a schedule rarely needs an expensive catch-up.
Spring growth and autumn tidy are the two busy windows.
Spring is when gardens get away on people fastest. A regular round through the growing season keeps it from ever needing a big catch-up.
We’d let the beds around the house go for a couple of years after moving onto the block. First visit was a proper catch-up, priced fairly and explained up front, and now it’s a quick fortnightly tidy that barely takes any time.
Mostly about the job rather than about us, which is how it should be.
Both. A lot of clients start with a one-off catch-up and move to regular visits once the garden’s back under control, but there’s no obligation either way.
Weeding, deadheading, edging garden borders, and pruning as needed, with all green waste removed. It’s scoped to what the garden needs that round.
On bed area and how overgrown it is, not just section size. A small, well-kept bed costs less than a large or neglected one.
Yes — formative pruning on younger planting is part of what we do, and getting it right early makes a real difference to how it fills in.
No, most regular clients aren’t. We just need clear access to the garden.
Bagged and removed the same visit, included in the price.
Yes, pause or adjust frequency any time — there’s no lock-in contract.
Yes, every price we give includes GST.
Most people add one or two of these, since we’re already on the property.
