The Garden Specialist

The Garden Specialist Professional gardening services operating across Blackpool, Lytham St Annes Thornton Cleveleys, and Poulton.

General garden and grounds maintenance, soft landscaping (planting and turfing) and small tree and hedge pruning. The Garden Specialist started in 2006 with the goal of delivering exceptional gardening services, at an affordable price, after witnessing the need for true experts on the Fylde Coast. By 2008 the business was well established and had the nice surprise of winning the first 'In Bloom' g

old medal. Every year after, until 2019, gardens were winning gold medals in Lytham in Bloom, Beautiful Blackpool and St Annes in Bloom. The business has continued to grow with a wide variety of different clients in both the private and commercial sectors undertaking all aspects of garden/grounds maintenance, soft landscaping projects, specialist lawn treatments, herbicide application projects and pond work.

We replaced a wind damaged wooden fence during the winter of 2025 with Durapost metal fence posts and premade 6x5 wooden...
23/07/2026

We replaced a wind damaged wooden fence during the winter of 2025 with Durapost metal fence posts and premade 6x5 wooden fence panels.

The posts are longer lasting than wood and concrete, can withstand high winds, are lighter in weight and easy to handle, easy to fix in place with post mix and available in a range of colours with matching accessories.
Fence panels can be screwed into place utilising the predrilled holes so no rattling in the wind.

All in all looks great and is solid.
I will always recommend this first over other options from now on.

Summer 2026 and it still looks great and its still solid.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' produce brilliantly large flower heads every year. They can create a real statement du...
19/07/2026

Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' produce brilliantly large flower heads every year. They can create a real statement during summer and 3 cut stems look great in a vase......apparently

The photos don't do the size of them justice and in previous years they've been even bigger.

They grow best in partial shade in a moist, well drained soil although they will grow in full sun if theres enough water. So St Annes gardeners, especially, need to think carefully about their position.
An annual prune back in late winter is needed as they flower on the current years wood but its easy with just secateurs.

Sometimes we are tasked with taking a lawn thats in disrepair and turning it into a lawn to be proud of. It takes a litt...
14/07/2026

Sometimes we are tasked with taking a lawn thats in disrepair and turning it into a lawn to be proud of.

It takes a little patience and work using a combination of fertiliser programs, scarification, moss and w**d treatments and regular maintenance but we get there 😁

Ornamental lawns used by kids and dogs can still look great with some regular maintenance
12/07/2026

Ornamental lawns used by kids and dogs can still look great with some regular maintenance

Large grounds maintenance projects such as churches and housing estates
10/07/2026

Large grounds maintenance projects such as churches and housing estates

Just a few turfing examples
07/07/2026

Just a few turfing examples

ITS NOT BOX BLIGHT....Box plants (Buxus spp.) are in many gardens either as small hedges or as expensive specimen topiar...
05/07/2026

ITS NOT BOX BLIGHT....

Box plants (Buxus spp.) are in many gardens either as small hedges or as expensive specimen topiary.

This year anyone with box plants has suffered in someway from Box Tree Moth whose caterpillars dine on the leaves of box and within a matter of a week or two can completely defoliate the plant.
Many are presuming its box blight and the plants are dead.

But they are not !

Remove the caterpillars by hand or with a pesticide, keep it well watered and apply a nitrogen rich fertiliser and it will grow back.

Address

106 Granville Road
Blackpool
FY38DW

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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