The yard

Groundskeepers who stopped fighting the weather

We spent years cutting, feeding, hollow-tining and patching lawns that were never going to hold. In 2009 a client who was tired of having the same argument every July asked what else there was. We laid our first estate-grade turf for her that autumn, and we have not gone back.

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A groundskeeper in a waxed jacket and leather gloves kneeling on limestone paving, brushing the blades of a freshly laid turf seam upright.
Founded
2009
Crew
Four, named
Yard
Marlow, Bucks

What we hold to

  1. 01

    The join is the job

    Every seam is hand-cut and glued on board, never taped down on the ground and hoped for. If you can find a join from ten feet, we have not finished the lawn.

  2. 02

    One crew, start to finish

    The people who measure your garden are the people who lay it. No subcontracted teams, no strangers through the side gate, no day where nobody on site knows your name.

  3. 03

    Base before beauty

    Most failed turf is a failed base. We dig out, lay stone, compact in layers and set the falls before a roll comes off the van. It is the least photogenic day and the one that decides year eight.

  4. 04

    We leave the ground clean

    Spoil away the same day, paths swept, gates as we found them, nothing stacked against the house overnight. On estates that matters as much as the lawn does.

We are not landscapers who also do turf. We are groundskeepers who found a better surface — and we lay it the way we were taught to cut.

The yardAshcombe Lane, Marlow

The record so far

  • 01First estate lawn laid

    2009

    Still down, still flat, still maintained by the same crew. We will give you the address and you can walk on it.

  • 02Guarantee, in writing

    8 yrs

    Blade, infill, seams and the base beneath them.

  • 03A standard garden

    3 days

    Lift and clear, base and edging, laid and brushed.

  • 04Free site visits

    40 mi

    Measured from the yard at Marlow.

  • 05People on the crew

    4

    Named on your quote before they arrive.

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We measure, photograph, check the access and the falls, and leave a written figure the same day. No pressure, no subcontractors, no surprise at the bottom of the invoice.

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