Hedge Cutting
OUTCO’s hedge cutting services ensure your hedges are well-maintained and looking great and also prevent spreading and overgrowth into walkways, ensuring safe, unobstructed passage for pedestrians
Hedge Cutting
Hedges are often used as natural boundaries and privacy screens or simply to improve the aesthetics of your estate. OUTCO not only ensure your hedges are well-maintained and looking great, but also prevent spreading and overgrowth into walkways, ensuring safe, unobstructed passage for pedestrians.
Hedges and beds have an important aesthetic and structural role in any outdoor facility setting. They create form and structure, define boundaries, create spaces and protect privacy as well as provide interest, strong visual impact and colour in your landscape design. In addition, they provide increasingly important habitat in an urban setting for wildlife, particularly birds and insects. Many hedge plants are long-lived if they are planted and maintained correctly. Maintenance needs can be intensive and sometimes expensive particularly if the wrong species has been planted in an inappropriate location.
OUTCO grass services offer a guaranteed way to keep your grass looking smart, tidy and professional throughout the growing season
OUTCO offers comprehensive tree surveys which include a detailed health and condition assessment and a risk assessment
OUTCO’s tree works teams provide a full range of tree maintenance operations including felling, crown lifting, pollarding, canopy reductions, aerial dismantling, stump grinding and surveys for diseases such as ash dieback
OUTCO’s litter picking service includes the removal of all litter and waste from commercial properties, as well as the disposal of all waste in accordance with government legislation
Our expert pruning teams will keep your shrubs, bushes and lawns shaped, edged and well maintained, improving their appearance
OUTCO provides sweeping and blowing services to keep your facility clean. We help you prevent the accumulation of dirt and debris, and keep your sites clean and safe
Strimming is an effective way to maintain grass in hard-to-reach grass areas, around tree bases, obstacles or grass banks. After grass cutting, strimming helps to keep edges looking neat and tidy and can also be effective in maintaining large grass brush areas
OUTCO believes in the importance of creating a well-maintained environment. OUTCO uses selective chemical herbicide weed spraying to target specific weed types, or non-specific herbicides for broader control when required
Leaf clearance takes place during the autumn season and includes the clearance, collection and removal of leaf debris from lawns, walkways and car parks. Regular leaf clearance helps to preserve lawns and shrubs from damage caused by excessive leaf coverage and promotes a healthy landscape
OUTCO offers a regular, scheduled bin emptying service that helps to maintain a healthy, clean site and avoids the attraction of pests and vermin. Our hassle-free service empties bins of all sizes and can remove all waste from site
Managing the moss on your site is an ongoing process, especially in areas prone to growth, and is therefore important to keep up with regular moss removal and preventative measures
Invasive weeds such as Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hog Weed, Himalayan Balsam (to name but a few), and other non-native plants pose a significant threat to the UK landscape and its biodiversity and can cause serious damage or harm to people and infrastructure
OUTCO’s landscape installation services create aesthetically pleasing workspaces, through well-maintained buildings and attractively landscaped grounds – vital in creating a positive first impressions by visitors
Hedge Trimming
Hedges and Shrubs are maintained by OUTCO to a high standard ensuring sites look tidy in appearance and do not obstruct any pedestrian or vehicular routes. OUTCO provides a comprehensive hedge trimming service that shapes the hedges on your grounds, develops hedge density, and complements the trees, shrubs and flowering plants.
Hedge Pruning
OUTCO’s hedge pruning services are always tailored to your requirements, whether you need regular hedge trimming or an annual prune. Pruning and cutting back will take place during winter months depending on variety and species. We can also extend our hedge services to include small trees and shrubs to keep your sites tidy. Poorly timed pruning and maintenance operations result in cube-like structures that have no resemblance to their natural form, lose their seasonal diversity and have a lower ecological value
Mulching
Mulching is a valuable activity that helps preserves plants while also reducing ongoing grounds maintenance costs throughout the year. Beds and borders can quickly dry out or be taken over by weeds. We recommend use of a bark mulch across the soil surface which will bring several benefits to your facility grounds. We will supply you with best quality bark mulches, organic matter and composts as well applying the bark mulch around your grounds.
Benefits includes tidying borders and flower beds after leaves fall, reducing grounds maintenance by suppressing weed growth, helping conserve soil moisture during dry weather, reducing soil erosion during heavy rain, insulating plant root area in both hot and cold weather. It also protects the area around the plants from drying out too quickly by trapping moisture during rainfall and ensuring beds don’t dry out quickly in the heat of summer. Finally fine material in mulch has soil conditioner properties and will feed the topsoil as well as attract worms to the soil.
Hedges and beds have an important aesthetic and structural role in any outdoor facility setting – they create form and structure, define boundaries, create spaces and protect privacy as well as provide interest, strong visual impact and colour in your landscape design
Bedding services
Planted beds can be an effective way to enhance a site – whether a working environment or residential community – through simple cost-effective measures. New flower beds and bedding planting can be arranged upon request and will be charged depending on requirement. Throughout the blooming season, OUTCO’s planted beds also provide premises with flowers suitable for cutting and bringing indoors to cheer up reception. In a community, planting flower beds in shared spaces makes the environment more attractive and fosters a sense of pride and care among users.
Case Studies
Following a site survey by our experts, OUTCO was appointed by leading supermarket giant ASDA to complete tree bedding repairs to the block paved car park and damaged kerbing around each tree pits at their superstore in Kingshill.
OUTCO provided a robust, consistent solution that ensured the sites remained safe and operational throughout winter. For the first time in many years, not one snow and ice related claim was received from the prisoners unaccompanied through the gates. This worked particularly well and provided us with greater flexibility with regard to service times.
Kuehne+Nagel knew it needed to bring in the services of a specialist winter gritting provider, to provide protection against the financial and physical risks of adverse weather. The company engaged the services of OUTCO, the UK’s leading winter risk management specialist.
News
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