Where we work.

The historic core

The High Street, the Cathedral precincts, Boley Hill and the streets around the Castle. Most of this area sits inside the Rochester Conservation Area, administered by Medway Council - work on any tree over 75mm needs six weeks' notice, which we file on your behalf. Soil here is thin, chalky and free-draining.

• High Street - narrow walled gardens behind Georgian and medieval frontages, mostly box, yew and small ornamental hedging. Conservation Area throughout.
• Boley Hill - the steepest, oldest part of the city, Cathedral-adjacent, mature yew and holly in tight courtyard gardens.
• Cathedral precincts and Minor Canon Row - formal clipped box and yew, heavily specified, low tolerance for an uneven line.

Delce, Borstal and the Riverside

The residential belt running south and west of the historic core, down to the river. A real mix: pre-war terraces in Delce with overgrown privet nobody's cut back in a decade, Borstal's hillside gardens with heavier clay and bigger leylandii problems, and the new-build Riverside development with young formally-planted hedges that just need routine maintenance.

• Delce - Delce Road and the surrounding grid, Victorian terraces, mostly privet and overgrown box.
• Borstal - hillside gardens above the river, heavier clay, the biggest concentration of neglected 1970s-80s leylandii we see.
• Rochester Riverside - new-build development along the old rail-yard site, young ornamental hedging, routine maintenance mostly.
• St Margaret's - mixed Victorian and inter-war housing, standard suburban privet and laurel.
• Nashenden and City Way corridor - light industrial edge and newer housing towards the M2.

Up the Medway valley

North of Rochester towards Aylesford, the chalk downland reasserts itself along the river's east bank. Larger rural plots, native hedgerows, church-yard yews under TPO. Different growing conditions to the city gardens, and a different cutting rhythm.

• Wouldham - riverside village, chalk pit legacy ground, mixed native hedging.
• Cuxton - larger gardens climbing the valley side, mature beech and hornbeam screens.
• Halling - former cement-works village, chalk grassland fringe, native mixed hedgerows.
• Burham - smallest of the four, church-yard yew under TPO, rural field hedges.

Not sure if we cover your postcode?

Our standard round runs about 12km from Rochester city centre - that covers all of ME1 and ME2, plus the Medway valley villages listed above. Chatham and Gillingham (ME4-ME8) are a different round; ask and we'll point you to a contractor who covers that patch regularly.