Melanie Kerr Garden Services
Garden Design & Garden Maintenance
Bristol Garden Maintenance & Garden Design
Where Nature Meets Nurture
Welcome to Melanie Kerr Garden Services, your trusted RHS-qualified gardener offering regular garden maintenance, bespoke planting plans, and beautiful garden design across Bristol. Whether you need seasonal upkeep for your garden in Bristol, a full planting refresh, or a complete re-design for your front or back garden, we create outdoor spaces that are practical, wildlife-friendly, and tailored to how you live.
From new-build gardens needing structure to mature gardens requiring expert care, we help homeowners transform their outdoor spaces with thoughtful planting, reliable maintenance, and a creative eye for colour, texture, and year-round interest.
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​​Garden Maintenance Bristol – Reliable, Professional Year-Round Care
Our team of horticulturalists can help you with keeping your garden looking tidy, healthy and vibrant with regular garden maintenance across Bristol.
We offer flexible maintenance packages designed around your garden’s specific needs, from light seasonal tidy-ups to ongoing monthly or fortnightly care.
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Our garden maintenance services include:
• Pruning shrubs, roses and perennials
• Weeding and border care
• Plant health checks and ongoing care
• Seasonal planting and border refreshing
• Lawn tidying and edging
• Preparing gardens for spring and winter
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If you want a garden that always looks loved, without the stress of doing it all yourself, our my maintenance service helps you enjoy your outdoor space more, while keeping plants healthy and borders beautifully balanced.
About me
Growing up in Cornwall, I was surrounded by plants, soil and creativity thanks to my parents’ landscaping and plant-nursery business. Some of my earliest memories are of helping in the polytunnel, pricking out bedding plants for pocket money and learning the rhythm of the seasons long before I understood it as horticulture.
After travelling widely in my twenties, I returned to my roots and completed the RHS Level 3 Horticulture Diploma in my thirties — all while renovating a doer-upper and raising three young children. Those years cemented my love for plants, design and the quiet satisfaction of creating a garden that truly thrives.
Alongside my garden design and maintenance work, I also mentor new gardeners who want to start or grow their own gardening businesses. I love helping beginners gain confidence, build practical skills and understand how to run a successful, client-focused garden service. Sharing my knowledge of horticulture, tools, workflow, pricing and seasonal planning allows new gardeners to start strong and create businesses they feel proud of.
Now based in Bristol, I’m able to fully follow my calling into professional horticulture, spending my days designing, planting and caring for gardens of all shapes and sizes. My passion lies in transforming gardens, reviving unloved spaces, and creating wildlife-friendly planting plans that bring colour, structure and joy throughout the year.
I specialise in turning new-build plots into meaningful outdoor spaces, improving kerb appeal, and designing gardens that feel welcoming from the moment you open your front door. Whether I’m providing regular garden maintenance or creating a full garden design and planting plan, my aim is always the same: to make the world a little greener, garden by garden.
As someone once said, “Work isn’t work if you love what you do.”
And I really do love what I do.