INTRODUCTION TO SHARPES GARDEN SERVICES
We are a vibrant conscientious company who pride ourselves in providing professional landscape & garden services. We have a dedicated team of staff who have a combined wealth of knowledge and expertise within the landscape industry. Our commitment to sustainability, climate change and social values are incorporated through our work and provides local areas with a better and more enjoyable environment to live in and use. Sharpes Garden Services are an environmentally friendly company with a successful recycling policy in action. Our work is both private and commercial and varies from grounds maintenance, Royal Horticultural Society (R.H.S) show gardens and local community schemes and projects. We also enjoy working closely with other skilled professionals and will consider projects nationwide throughout the U.K. We believe that community counts and are proud sponsors of local football and cricket teams we also often give our services voluntary to local charities and social care groups. Sharpes Garden Services strive towards customer satisfaction by maintaining a high standard of service at all times.
SHARPES NEW INNOVATIONS & INITIATIVES
Sharpes Garden Services are always dedicated to providing a good attentive service to the communities they work in. We believe that community counts and there is a great importance for tenants to be allowed to have their say on the areas in which they live and their views and ideas are listened to. Access to well designed and maintained gardens, Communal spaces make local projects better
and more enjoyable places to live in . This can promote a feeling of pride and sense of ownership towards these areas for tenants.
We adopt a very positive approach to creating better communal environments and gardens with our forward thinking ideas and innovations. One of our projects to install decorative flowering hanging baskets at one of East Midlands Housings larger schemes (Agar Nook, Leicestershire) has proven to be a great success with many compliments and very positive feed back from local tenants.
We have been involved in designing and planting a number of new projects for our clients and our team of staff who have a combined complementary wealth of knowledge and expertise in plant care and landscape design are always very inspired with new ideas and initiatives. These include …
Communal Urban Sculpture Garden - Using suitable recycled salvage found on schemes, this idea could involve local schools, community groups, and local sculptor. The idea may possibly be our next Royal Horticultural Society show garden entry with MSLD, then incorporated into a suitable housing scheme garden .
Communal Allotment Project - With our current financial climate and increasing need to eat healthier diets this could educate and benefit many.
Sensory Gardens with communal - These are a very popular idea with planting emphasis on using seating and disabled access all of our senses to best enjoy our gardens ideal for all abilities.
Competitions - Beautiful Borders, Best window box etc Helping to create a sense of ownership and pride
Communal meeting points -This is a tenant lead idea to create more hard landscaped areas on schemes for the creation of more open spaces for community social gatherings and meetings with improved disabled access .
Growing gardens for flats - Utilising existing window boxes promoting growing flowers and vegetables by tenants to improve the look of areas such as Linney Road and Agar Nook Leicestershire
Sustainable planting /Regeneration Flower Meadows helping environments to promote more wildlife with plant selections , Planting native trees , Use of evergreen plants and trees for added security on schemes during winter months. Adopting simple Xeriscaping principals in landscape planting.
SUB-CONTRACTORS & WORK RELATED PROFESSIONALS
Marc Stapleford Landscape Design (MSLD) - Marc works closely with Sharpes Garden Services on a variety of design lead projects.
Marc Stapleford is an award winning landscape designer who has a growing reputation for creating stylish outdoor spaces which use a fusion between landscape design and natural materials. Emphasis is based on landscape design, the sense of place and the relationship with the surrounding environment and habitat. Planting often features heavily and ranges from striking architectural schemes through to soft, wild naturalistic styles. From small landscape and garden designs to complex landscape design projects Marc's work is varied and combines landscape design with site specific requirements. Marc’s clients are both private individuals and corporate businesses. Marc's design work has gained prestigious awards and has been exhibited at the RHS Malvern Spring Flower Show. Design work has also been featured in newspapers, design magazines and on the BBC Gardeners world.
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