Tree surgery and landscaping in Fareham

Fareham sits between Southampton and Portsmouth, and with Whiteley, Swanwick, Warsash and Stubbington around it, it anchors the eastern end of our patch. The M27 puts it twenty-odd minutes from our base.

Being this close to the Solent changes the jobs. Southwesterlies coming up off the water are what flatten fences here: a lap-panel run that would live happily in a sheltered Eastleigh garden gets tested every winter on an exposed Fareham boundary. Closeboard built on site, or concrete posts with gravel boards, is usually the honest recommendation.

The rest of the book is broad: town-centre terraces, family gardens off Highlands Road, newer Whiteley plots that arrive as blank turf rectangles wanting beds, structure and privacy planting.