Specialist garden rescue services for overgrown, neglected or difficult gardens across Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex.
Professional garden restoration, design and maintenance led by MSc-qualified horticulturist Olli Thomas
We recover neglected outdoor spaces and create beautiful, manageable gardens.
Services include
Garden rescues, clearance and restoration
Garden redesign, improvement and planting
Orchard and fruit tree care
Preparing gardens for property sale
All year Support packages
Project Management Service for larger projects
Olli Thomas Garden Rescue provides specialist garden restoration, redesign and maintenance services across Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex.
We work with gardens that have become overgrown, neglected or difficult to manage, restoring them into attractive and functional outdoor spaces.
Our approach combines practical horticultural expertise with thoughtful design, ensuring that gardens are not only beautiful but sustainable and manageable in the long term.
Whether you require a complete garden rescue, planting redesign or ongoing care, we offer bespoke solutions tailored to your garden and your goals.
MSc-qualified horticultural expertise
Bespoke garden rescue and design projects
Trusted local service since 2019
Careful project management from start to finish
Free consultation and clear fixed pricing
Most garden rescue projects fall between:
£1,000 – £3,000
for smaller gardens or partial clearance
£3,000 – £5,000+
for larger gardens or full transformations
Every project is quoted after a site visit.
Plants “wake up thirsty”.Leaves open in the morning and start pulling water immediately — if the soil’s dry, the plant starts the day stressed.Tip: Water early and give a proper soak so moisture is ready when the plant starts drawing it up.
Please ignore my post yesterday about how to fix patchy lawns as according to the RHS it's all wrong!
Every spring there is a moment when garden owners step outside, take a long look at their lawn after winter, and think: “What on earth happened here?”
I’ve just launched the revamped, rebranded and expanded OTGR website, and to celebrate I’ve hidden a small treasure somewhere within it.
Over time many gardens quietly drift off course.
This week I ventured “North of the River” (Wey) into what might reasonably be described as Surrey stockbroker territory. When the enquiry first came in I was slightly surprised (my infamy clearly travels further than I realised) and initially a little hesitant. I know the soils there only vaguely (mostly from hacking away at golf course fairways), the additional travel time is significant, and my usual suppliers would either be unwilling to deliver that far or would charge delivery rates that quickly become unrealistic—which, as it turned out, was indeed the case.
After months of soggy soil and endless rain, it’s finally time to raise your garden and take control. With OTGR bespoke raised beds and kitchen gardens, you’ll enjoy better soil, easier planting, and more harvests than any traditional garden can offer. Perfect for serious gardeners or anyone who just fancies a bit of fun, raised beds make gardening productive, stress-free, and enjoyable.
Winter may not quite be finished with us yet, but the garden certainly thinks it is. The days are lengthening, the soil is slowly warming, and plants are preparing to burst into life.
After many, many years of attempted diplomacy and carefully targeted attempts to try to keep this tricky customer in shape and under control, negotiations collapsed and the cavalry was called in.
This project involved replacing several dilapidated vegetable plots with a robust, professionally constructed kitchen garden ahead of the client’s new shed installation and bark flooring scheduled for 11 December.
👩🍳 **Serves:** 1 Desperate Homeowner
Margot, Farnham
