Garden maintenance · Landscaping · Lawn care
From weekly mowing in Durbanville to full estate gardens in Constantia, our own trained teams keep your outdoor spaces neat, healthy and water-wise all year round.
What we do
Whether you need a team in every week or a one-off rescue mission for an overgrown garden, we arrive with our own equipment, do the work properly, and take the green waste with us.
Mowing, edging, bed weeding, hedge touching-up and general tidying on a fixed schedule, so your garden never gets away from you. Same team every visit, so they learn your garden.
Most popular with family homes and rental properties
A full reset for neglected or overgrown gardens — before a sale, after building work, or when you've simply inherited a jungle. We cut back, clear, rake out and cart away everything.
Quoted upfront based on a site visit or photos
Regular mowing and edging, plus scarifying, top dressing and feeding in season. For tired lawns we lift, level and lay quality kikuyu or Buffalo instant lawn that roots quickly.
Seasonal feeding programme available
Roses, fruit trees, shrubs and hedges pruned at the right time of year, not just when it suits. Formal hedges kept sharp, and larger tree work handled with our trusted arborist partners.
Winter pruning bookings open May to August
New drip and sprinkler systems, repairs to existing ones, and simple timers that keep you within Cape Town's water restrictions. We design around your soil and planting, not the other way round.
Compliant with current City water by-laws
Garden beds redesigned with fynbos, aloes, restios and other plants that thrive on the Cape's winter rain and dry summers. Beautiful, lower maintenance and kinder on your water bill.
Planting plans drawn up for your specific plot
Ongoing grounds maintenance for complexes, office parks, guest houses and estate management companies — with signed service-level agreements, scheduled visits and a single point of contact who answers the phone.
References available on request
Not sure which service you need? Tell us about your garden and we'll point you in the right direction — honestly.
About us
Cape Garden Services started in 2009 with one bakkie, two lawnmowers and a simple promise: arrive when we say we will, do the work we quoted, and leave the place tidier than we found it. Fifteen years later we look after more than 400 gardens across the city, but that promise hasn't changed.
Our teams are permanent staff — not casual labour picked up on the morning — and they're trained in-house on everything from correct rose pruning to safe chemical handling around children and pets. Because we work in Cape Town's own conditions, we know what south-facing Constantia shade does to a lawn, how northerly summer winds dry out Milnerton borders, and which plants actually survive a Bellville frost.
You'll deal directly with the owners, Andries and Lerato, from your first quote onwards. No call centres, no chasing.
Book a Site VisitWhy choose us
Any team can make a garden look good on day one. Here's what keeps our clients with us for years:
Your garden is looked after by a consistent crew who know its quirks — which corner stays damp, where the irritable neighbour's boundary lies, and exactly how you like your hedge line.
You get a clear written quotation before any work starts, and our monthly maintenance rates are fixed for 12 months. If something extra is needed, we ask first. No surprise invoices.
We bring professional mowers, blowers, hedge trimmers and trailers, and we service them ourselves. When load shedding hits, we still have charged battery tools to finish the job.
Every visit includes removal of clippings and debris. You're never left with a compost heap blocking your driveway unless you specifically asked for one.
We plan mowing heights, mulching, feeding and irrigation around Cape Town's water restrictions and summer heat, so gardens stay presentable even in a tight water year.
Public liability cover for work on your property, uniformed teams, and a supervisor you can phone directly if anything isn't right. Our workmanship guarantee means we come back until you're happy.
Recent work
A few recent projects from around the city. Every job below started with a free site visit and a fixed written quote.
Three weeks to clear years of overgrowth, replant the entrance beds with water-wise species and set up an ongoing weekly maintenance schedule for the main house and cottage.
Removed a patchy, frost-damaged lawn, levelled and composted the soil, and laid fresh kikuyu in a day. Two weeks later the kids were playing on it — and it survived its first winter.
Apartment courtyard with no soil? No problem. Layered containers, a slim trellis and low-water planting now give the owners privacy and colour, maintained on a fortnightly visit.
Built raised beds, installed a drip system on a timer, and planted seasonal veg with the learners. We now maintain the garden monthly and help the teachers run their eco club sessions.
After a winter storm split a major limb, our arborist partner reduced the canopy safely while we restored the underplanting beneath. Annual structural pruning keeps it healthy.
Replaced a thirsty exotic border with aloes, proteas and restios mulched thickly against the wind. Irrigation dropped by half and the garden looks better in February than it ever did.
From our clients
“We've used Cape Garden Services for four years now. The same team arrives every Tuesday, they remember exactly how I like the roses done, and if I ever have a special request Andries sorts it out on the spot.”
“Our rental had been let go badly between tenants. They quoted a fixed price for the clean-up, arrived with a full crew, and two days later the garden looked like a show house. The new tenants signed partly because of the garden, I'm sure.”
“Honest people. They told us our lawn problem was the irrigation, not the grass, fixed the solenoid for a small fee instead of selling us a whole new system. That kind of advice earns loyalty.”
“They maintain the common grounds of our complex and it's the smoothest contractor relationship we have on the board. Scheduled visits happen, invoices match quotes, and residents actually compliment the gardens.”
Names shortened for privacy. Reviews shown are illustrative examples for this template website.
Where we work
Our teams are based in Rondebosch and work right across the city, from the City Bowl to the Northern Suburbs and along the Atlantic Seaboard. If you're just outside these areas, ask anyway — for larger projects and commercial contracts we travel further.
Not sure if you fall within our area? Send us your suburb and we'll confirm straight away, usually within the hour during business hours.
Tell us what your garden needs and we'll come back to you with a straightforward written quotation — usually within one working day.
Contact us
Fill in the form and we'll call or email you back, or simply phone us — a real person answers during business hours.
Common questions
It depends on the size of the garden and how much there is to do, so we quote per property after a quick site visit or a set of photos. Most standard suburban gardens fall into a predictable range, and your rate is fixed for 12 months once agreed.
Always. Mowers, edge trimmers, blowers, hedge trimmers, trailers and protective gear travel with our teams, along with water and fuel. You don't need to provide anything except access and (if you're kind) somewhere to refill the kettle.
We bag it and take it with us as part of every visit. Where possible it goes to a Cape Town green waste drop-off facility for composting rather than landfill.
Yes — we plan every maintenance schedule and irrigation install around the City of Cape Town's current water by-laws, including approved watering days and times, drip irrigation, mulching and drought-tolerant planting.
No. Most of our regular clients are at work when we come. We only need agreed access arrangements, and we lock up behind ourselves. You'll get a short note after each visit if anything unusual came up.
We carry public liability insurance for all work performed on your property, and our teams are permanent, uniformed employees. Certificates can be supplied to estate managers and body corporates on request.