Hertfordshire
Gardens and drives in Welwyn Garden City
A town planned around its gardens. Most visits are a simpler layout and trees kept in scale.
Plenty of Welwyn Garden City plots still have the original arrangement: lawn, hedge, tree. They have also become more hours than the household wants. A useful change keeps that character and cuts the work — a cleaner edge, fewer struggling shrubs, and a patio where the chairs already are.
Communal hedges and verges sit beside the private gardens. Hedge cutting is timed around nesting, and leaf clearance follows the autumn drop from the planes and limes.
Welwyn Hatfield is the planning authority. A protected street tree or garden tree means consent before any felling.