What we do.

Six trades from one depot, for Gibraltar’s gardens, streets and green spaces.

Inside a polytunnel: arched steel hoops overhead and benches of cyclamen, kalanchoe, begonias and ferns either side of a gravel path.
A newly planted raised bed of agaves, lavender, rosemary and a young olive tree in pale gravel, the soil dark from its first watering.
A new Mediterranean bed, first watering. Illustrative image.
Gloved hands deadheading red geraniums in old terracotta pots on a whitewashed step, bougainvillea above.
Deadheading geraniums in terracotta pots. Illustrative image.

Landscaping

Verges, roundabouts, courtyards and lobbies, planted to cope with sun, salt wind and shallow soil.

  • Planting schemes, indoors and out
  • Raised beds, gravel and planters
  • Turf and new lawns
Two landscapers laying rolls of fresh turf beside a pale limestone wall, one kneeling on a board pressing the seams tight.
Laying turf against a limestone wall. Illustrative image.

Garden and grounds maintenance

Agreed visits, an agreed standard, all year. Much of our Government work is exactly this.

A typical year on a maintenance contract

  1. JAN

    Winter pruning.

  2. FEB
    A pleached hedge trained flat along a rendered wall, freshly clipped.

    Hedges shaped.

  3. MAR

    Beds fed.

  4. APR
    A crew in hi-vis vests spreading bark mulch from a wheelbarrow onto a bed.

    Mulch and bedding.

  5. MAY

    Timers to summer.

  6. JUN

    Deadheading.

  7. JUL
    A drip line with a drop of water forming at the emitter, among lavender and gravel.
    Illustrative image.

    Early starts.

  8. AUG

    Water, water.

  9. SEP

    Hedge cuts.

  10. OCT
    A wooden flower cart on Main Street filled with cyclamen, anthuriums, crotons and ferns.
    Photo: Greenarc

    Cyclamen in.

  11. NOV

    Tree planting.

  12. DEC

    Displays up.

A climber roped into the canopy of a tall conifer, working among live branches.
Roped in, working a live canopy. Photo: Symic, CC BY 2.0.

Tree surgery

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 tree surgeon in chainsaw gear on a ladder against a tall trunk, cutting back side limbs.
Working up the stem on a ladder. Photo: Symic, CC BY 2.0.
A tree surgeon standing on top of a dead trunk, cutting it down in sections with a chainsaw, sawdust flying.
Taking down a dead trunk in sections. Photo: Symic, CC BY 2.0.
A lawn sprinkler throwing a backlit arc of water across green grass.

Irrigation

A pop-up sprinkler at work. Photo: ubcmicromet, CC BY 2.0.

Drip line at the base of new lavender. Illustrative image.
A black pop-up sprinkler head spraying water across cut grass.
Pop-up head on a lawn. Photo: mikemol, CC BY 2.0.

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

Drip lines
Beds, planters, new trees.
Pop-up sprinklers
Lawns and verges.
Timers
Reset every season.
Repairs
Leaks, blocked emitters, broken heads.
Bedding plants under the polytunnel hoops. Illustrative image.

Our nursery

We grow the bedding plants for the beds and planters we look after, including the Main Street flower cart.

A wooden flower cart on Main Street at Christmas, filled with red and white cyclamen, anthuriums, crotons and trailing ferns.
Main Street, at Christmas. Photo: Greenarc

Community gardens

Gardens a school, club or street can run themselves.

Young trees staked in rows. Photo: photofarmer, CC BY 2.0.

NOV 2025

Mini urban forest at Landport

A native mini forest planted with the Gibraltar Horticultural Society, Whole Wild World and the Department of the Environment.

Gibraltar Chronicle (opens in a new tab)

Close-up of a cluster of pale lilac Gibraltar candytuft flowers.
Gibraltar candytuft, Iberis gibraltarica. Photo: Yan Wong, CC0.

This project shows what can be achieved when government, charities, businesses, and citizens work together.

Annabelle Mor-Codali, CEO, Gibraltar Horticultural Society, in the Gibraltar Chronicle.

Tell us about the site.

Call with the address and what you would like. We will come and look.

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