Sixteen years of other people's gardens.

Henley Gardeners Ltd was incorporated on 20 August 2009 and has been trading from Salisbury ever since, registered under company number 06995767 for landscape service activities. Its director, Mark Wilding-Witts, has held the appointment since 2013, and the company's registered address on Balmoral Road is the same Wiltshire head office the work is run from.

The company describes itself as a landscape and civil engineering business working across the south of the UK for domestic and commercial projects — which, translated out of tender language, means it will cut a suburban lawn every fortnight and it will also take on the external estate of a commercial site, using the same crew and the same standards.

That range is the point. Operating from a Wiltshire head office and locations across the south of England, the company works in partnership with its clients to deliver worry-free external estate management — a good deal more than just grass cutting and lawn maintenance. In practice most clients arrive with one job and stay for a round: a clearance that turns into a fortnightly visit, a patio that leads to a planting scheme, a let property that becomes six.

There is nothing romantic about it. It is a small Wiltshire company that has turned up for sixteen years, prices a year's visits as one fixed figure so nobody has to argue about invoices in August, and takes the waste away at the end of the day. The clients who have written testimonials keep using the same two words — plan and schedule — and that is about the shape of it.