About Ashley and AJ Adams Landscaping

One person, start to finish

Plenty of garden jobs go wrong in the gap between the person who quotes and the person who builds. With Ashley there is no gap. He comes out to look at the garden, checks the access, the levels and how water drains, and writes up what the job involves. When the work starts, he is the one on site making sure it matches what was agreed.

That direct contact is the point of a small local business. If you want to change something halfway through, or you are not sure about a detail, you speak to the person who can answer straight away.

25 years of groundwork

A quarter of a century in landscaping teaches you that the finish is only as good as what sits under it. That is why so much of this site talks about digouts, sub-bases, falls and drainage. Patios are Ashley's main work, and fencing is the trade he enjoys most, but the same habit runs through everything: get the ground right first.

The project photos on the homepage show that approach: an overgrown lawn cleared for gravel, an Eastleigh garden levelled and turfed, old flagstones lifted and relaid with a drainage channel, and a Chandlers Ford garden redesigned around a new patio.

Working for homeowners

Almost all of Ashley's work is for people improving the garden of the home they live in. That shapes how a job is run: the garden is often in use while work goes on, children and pets need a safe route out of the house, and neighbours either side need to be kept on side. Deliveries are planned so they do not block the street for long, waste goes as it builds up rather than sitting in a pile, and the site is left tidy at the end of each day.

The work Ashley takes on

• Patios, his main line of work
• Repointing and cleaning slabs
• Fencing, the trade he enjoys most
• Turfing and re-levelling gardens
• New sub-bases and concrete pads
• Digouts, slabbing and decking
• Shingling and decorative stone
• Garden clearance, rip outs and redesigns

Every one of these has its own page under services, and the guides answer the questions homeowners ask most before booking.

Where and when

Ashley is based in Southampton and travels about 20 miles. The areas page explains what the work tends to look like in each town. He works from 7am to 9pm, so an early or evening site visit is usually possible if you are out during the day.