JET Landscapes has been building gardens and digging groundworks across the South Lakes since 2007. We are based in Cartmel and we work this patch — domestic gardens, commercial site work, and everything from footings and drainage to walling, paving and planting.
Why local knowledge matters here
The work in this part of the country is different from most places, and harder: steeper ground, harder digging, older stone, and far more weather. It is also work that rewards knowing an area properly. Where the clay sits, which valleys flood, which gardens have rock a foot down, what a wall in this parish should look like — that is knowledge you accumulate rather than look up.
How we work
The same person quotes your job, runs it, and answers the phone afterwards. There is no sales team and no call centre — you deal with the people actually doing the work. On larger jobs we will bring in trusted specialist trades where it makes sense, and we will tell you when we are doing it. Either way the job stays our responsibility.
We own our plant and run it ourselves, which is why we can commit to a programme and hold to it. It also means we are not paying hire charges while we wait for someone else to finish, and that shows up in what we charge you.
And we will tell you when something is a bad idea. If your budget will not stretch to doing a job properly, we would rather say so and suggest doing half of it well than take the money and build something that fails in three winters. That has cost us jobs. It has also brought back more work than any advertising ever has.
Work we are proud of
In 2024 we rebuilt the Dutch Garden at Graythwaite Hall — Thomas Mawson’s first major commission and a Grade II* registered garden — after box blight destroyed the original parterre. We have also built pod bases, paths, fencing and group spaces for a local Scout site. See the projects.
What we can show you
- Public liability insurance — certificate available on request
- RAMS documentation, risk assessments and method statements for commercial work
- Waste transfer documentation for anything we take off site
- References and completed jobs across the South Lakes
Our work photographs are our own
Every photograph of our work on this site is a job we did ourselves. No stock photography, no AI-generated images, no other contractor’s portfolio. If it shows a finished job, we built it, and we will happily tell you where it is. The only exceptions are a few Lakeland landscape photographs used as page backgrounds, credited at the foot of the site.
Domestic and commercial
Roughly speaking, half our work is private gardens and half is site work — footings and drainage for builders, hardstanding and access for commercial clients, fencing and land drainage for farms and estates, and outdoor space for holiday lets and hospitality. The two halves keep each other honest: the commercial side keeps our groundworks standards up, and the domestic side keeps us fussy about the finish.
Get a price for your job
If you have a job in mind, or you just want an opinion on whether something is possible, ring us. We do not charge for a conversation.
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Fill this in and we will ring you back to arrange a site visit — usually the same day. No obligation and no hard sell: if it is not a job for us, we will say so and point you at someone who does it.
In a hurry? Ring the mobile. If we are on a digger we will call you straight back.
07919 448092