About Roots Garden Services

Over 25 years of professional experience but lifetime lovers of anything that grows!

Richard Cantlay

We can rejuvenate, maintain, or improve any garden. No matter its past, we can bring it to a place where it looks infinitely cared for. Neat and professional yet creative and beautiful all in one. We’ll get your garden to a place where it’s thriving, fresh, and living its best life!

How we do this?

We will help you make the most out of your garden. Personal to the area and the client. We plan with light  in mind, creating a space for you to enjoy the sun. Complete with scenery, that is stunning and abounds with the colours you love. We can even help fill out any shady places you thought doomed to be barren  forever.

We don’t plan for just one season; we create a garden that will thrive and change throughout the year. Sourcing, ordering, and implementing is left to us. Your job? Just have as much involvement in the plan as you feel comfortable with. Whilst making sure you find time to enjoy it when it’s completed!

Once the initial magic is worked, we provide all the help you want with maintenance and continuous care. Ranging from: practical information, seasonal tidy ups, pruning, weeding, and maintaining fences or hedges. Essentially, we can  continuously refresh your garden.

About Me

Hi I’m Richard & I’ve been interested in gardening since I was very young.

I’m educated to honours degree level but not in horticulture; all my gardening & plantsman knowledge  is self taught.

I feel very lucky to be working with plants as not many people have the good fortune to work in professions that they feel passionate about.

I’ve had a gardening business based in South London for 25 years & although I don’t get so excited by   fences , patios , trellis   but  , I have built all of these, so have gained valuable experience how to build them & where to put them.

I still build trellis & fences but patios I’ll leave to builders as my back is not what it used to be.

My speciality is pruning shrubs & trees up to 5 metres tall, plant specification for the situation &  for  the desired effect , plant combinations & planting design.

Landscaping, annual maintenance visits & replanting

“Richard Cantlay of Roots brings a real breadth of experience to garden restoration, seasonal tidying and design. He works quickly and precisely and clears away very efficiently. You know where you are with Roots – and we can highly recommend them.”

Richard Jones
London W1