SEP 2021
Plater Youth Club urban garden
We gave materials for the club’s new urban garden, opened by the Chief Minister.
Six trades from one depot, for Gibraltar’s gardens, streets and green spaces.

Verges, roundabouts, courtyards and lobbies, planted to cope with sun, salt wind and shallow soil.
Agreed visits, an agreed standard, all year. Much of our Government work is exactly this.
Winter pruning.

Hedges shaped.
Beds fed.

Mulch and bedding.
Timers to summer.
Deadheading.

Early starts.
Water, water.
Hedge cuts.

Cyclamen in.
Tree planting.
Displays up.
Pruning, removals and bracing, with a platform and a chipper for street trees.
We look after the Trafalgar Cemetery arboretum and carried out the Government’s 2025 tree pruning contract.
Sources: Government of Gibraltar press release 660/2021 (opens in a new tab); Government contracts table GC.5, 2025/26 (PDF, opens in a new tab).
A pop-up sprinkler at work. Photo: ubcmicromet, CC BY 2.0.

Water at the roots, at the right hour, and no more than the season needs.

We grow the bedding plants for the beds and planters we look after, including the Main Street flower cart.
Gardens a school, club or street can run themselves.
SEP 2021
We gave materials for the club’s new urban garden, opened by the Chief Minister.

NOV 2025
A native mini forest planted with the Gibraltar Horticultural Society, Whole Wild World and the Department of the Environment.
This project shows what can be achieved when government, charities, businesses, and citizens work together.
Call with the address and what you would like. We will come and look.