Winter is a Great Time in the Garden
May 24, 2020
About now a lot of people will be retreating indoors and they’ll possibly stay there until spring. On the 1st September, many will emerge from
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I am a gardener in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie providing regular gardening services only to residential clients and have the experience and knowledge to help you.
Let me transform your gardens and outdoor areas into beautiful liveable spaces for you to enjoy.
For regular garden maintenance, make HOLTS your first call. We are not a landscaper or a lawn mowing contractor.
You will receive reliable personal service and a genuine ongoing commitment.
Explore our site to view extraordinary before and after transformations, read testimonials and more.
We carry out long term regular garden maintenance services in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie; offering reliable and competent servicing with 30 years of wide ranging experience. Over this time, using this experience, many very unsatisfactory, messy and difficult gardens have been transformed into beautiful spaces; making these properties more pleasing places to live with and greatly improving their re-sale value.
When you take a look around our website, you’ll see the positive reviews and photos which show multiple examples of gardens which have had a lot of help from Holts. This is something which sets us apart from everyone else. I won’t just tell you what I can do for you and your gardens; I can show you what I have done; with a lot of impressive before and after photos. There is no other gardening service anywhere with more experience or more examples of gardens which have been so greatly improved. A number of my competitors were not even born in 1993.
Holts can also help should you wish to plant out your gardens with good performing, suitable plants. I know what will work in your situation as a result of many years of maintenance gardening. And just as importantly, I can prevent problem plants from ever making it to your place.
Finally, you can rely on HOLTS to provide you with a level of service, hands on experience and commitment which is unrivalled. And the result will be that your gardens will become better maintained, neater, more beautiful and with little or no noxious weeds over time.
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The Gardening Guide include’s Brian’s favourite plants for low maintenance, colourful garden and simple ways to make your garden beautiful
Hi, I’m Brian Holt.
I’ve been around gardens all of my life and a professional maintenance gardener for 30 years. Prior to that I was a school teacher, after graduating in 1980 at Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst. My own beautiful gardens are testament to how much I love gardening!
About now a lot of people will be retreating indoors and they’ll possibly stay there until spring. On the 1st September, many will emerge from
You may be a bit worried about how your gardens are going to cope with the hot dry weather this summer, given that it’s been
Safe hands for your gardens. This is a tiny onion weed plant. If left you will have a major garden weed problem. Spotting details like this & dealing with them comes from experience, knowledge & care #newcastlegardener #experience
Plants rambling through other plants works for me; like these red Pelargoniums. And densely planting like this keeps things cool & shelters from wind #ramblinggarden #pelargoniums #redflowers #mygardenlife #gardenhacks #gardendesign #garden #gardenmaintenance #gardenersnewcastle
A sample of the plants I planted in Karen’s front garden. This place was a weedfest which was full of onion weed & a host of other weeds. Now the weeds are very few & it’s improving with each fortnightly gardening service. Instead of a garden of horror, it’s now a garden of delights, with a cottage garden style & lots of mauve, pink, crimson & purple. Now I’ve moved around to the backyard to deal with the particular problems which are there, including lots of weeds. Do you need a gardener who can deal with weeds & has a creative flair? #weedcontrol #cottagegarden #gardenfix #gardenmaintenance #gardencolour #flowers
Journey of a garden; from a jungle of Philodendron Selloum to a tropical look garden with easy care plants & mainly a focus on foliage. Scroll across to see the different stages. Plants have been gradually & carefully incorporated & nearly all of the plants were grown from divisions, cuttings & my own stock. The soil was largely clay & this was not discarded but amended with the addition of a mineral sand based mix, gypsum & organic mulch. It is now well drained & moisture holding. The aspect with morning to mid afternoon sun, cloistered nature of the garden & depth of soil make it a garden which never needs watering & it has a micro climate that means plants thrive in it. There are also no weeds to worry about. Does it seem to good to be true? #supergarden #easycaregarden #tropicallookgarden #gardenmakeover #waterwisegarden #droughtproofgarden #gardenmaintenance
This was revealed when I cut some firewood with a chainsaw; quite a while ago now #canyoubelieveit #alienface #smileyface
How about this for a good looking Aussie native ground cover plant which is tough, both frost & dryness tolerant. It’s Hibbertia pedunculata “Boomers” & is flowering profusely now in our spring. It also flowers in summer & spot flowers in the cooler weather. It just requires good drainage & sun to part shade. Here it is in a customer’s garden where I planted it. If you require ongoing regular garden maintenance in Newcastle or Lake Macquarie NSW, reach out to me. You could be looking at glorious flowers like this every day #gardener #gardenmaintenance #mygardenlife #flowers #gardens #gardening #gardeninglife
Two gorgeous plants at my customer’s Japanese garden. The first is a very established Azalea shrub which I’ve carefully cultured over some years; removing pest affected leaves by hand & resisting the urge to contain it by allowing longer, almost straggly branches to remain. The effect is very arty. The second is Loropetalum Chinensis, a white flowering form of this plant; trimmed into a formal shape. It’s a vigorous plant which handles trimming very well #japanesegarden #azalea #artygarden #arty #photography #mygardenlife #pinkflowers #gardens #gardenpics #gardener
