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Gardens, pools, irrigation and pruning in Ticino

From lawn to pool, 6 services. The site visit is free and the quote is a fixed price; for work by the hour, a gardener usually costs CHF 60 an hour.

Pool with a gravel surround and a view over the valley
Two Garden Specialist workers tie the reinforcement inside the yellow formwork of a pool, with the mountains behind
Formwork and reinforcement for a concrete pool

Pool and mini-spa construction

In-ground pools in concrete or panels, made to measure, with the edging and the paving around them.

From the site visit to the first swim, just over a month. A 2-year guarantee: ‘Swim… or your money back’.

A pale pool flush with the new lawn, with an olive tree, the hedge and tall trees under a blue sky
  1. 1Initial consultation
  2. 2Survey and quote
  3. 3Site preparation
  4. 4Pool installation
  5. 5Testing and handover
  6. 6Aftercare

What’s included

  • In-ground pools in concrete or panels
  • Mini-spas and hot tubs
  • Pool edging and outdoor paving
  • The paperwork and permits from the municipality
  • Maintenance and servicing after handover

Building work is booked 3–4 weeks ahead.

Ask for a quote for a pool
The same garden with the lawn sown, the hedge and the pool at the far end
A villa’s plot, levelled and bare, with the pool at the far end still to be edged
Before · the same garden

Garden building and maintenance

A new garden from bare ground, or care for the one you have: lawn, hedges, flower beds.

What’s included

  • Garden design and building for villas and houses
  • Lawns sown or turfed
  • Scheduled care of lawns, hedges and flower beds
  • Treatment for plant diseases and pests

For maintenance we usually come within a few days.

Ask for a quote for a garden
Japanese stepping stones on a watered lawn

Irrigation systems

An automatic system, even in an existing garden: we put the lawn back as it was.

What’s included

  • Automatic systems made to measure, with a controller
  • Wi-Fi controllers: zones and times from your phone
  • Rain sensor, so it doesn’t water when it rains
  • Shutting the system down for winter, against frost
  • Repairs, including to systems installed by others
Ask for a quote for irrigation
A Garden Specialist gardener in a helmet prunes a tall hedge from the basket of the cherry picker, with the mountains behind

Pruning, felling and tree surgery

Tall trees pruned or taken down in sections from above, even close to the house, using ropes or the cherry picker.

What’s included

  • Pruning tall trees and removing dead wood
  • Felling in tight spaces
  • Tree stability assessment (VTA): treat or fell
  • Making trees safe after a storm
  • Wood taken away, stump ground out

We work from above: no heavy machines cross your lawn or flower beds.

Ask for a quote for pruning
A path being built alongside a building: the sand, the gravel and the dumperDuring
A newly laid block-paved path alongside a new buildingAfter

Paving, walls and paths

Paths, walkways, steps and retaining walls, and pool edging too.

What’s included

  • Paths, walkways and outdoor paving
  • Walls, steps and retaining structures
  • Digging and moving earth with our own machines
Ask for a quote for paving
A bank planted through weed-control fabric, beside a new building

Soil bioengineering

Banks and slopes stabilised with timber, stone and plants instead of concrete.

What’s included

  • Crib walls in chestnut or larch, reinforced earth
  • Replanted banks, steps, paths and channels
  • Native plants
  • The paperwork for the canton and the municipality

Over the years the roots take over from the timber, and the slope becomes ever more stable.

Ask for a quote for a slope

Your quote

Tell us the job, the size and the timing, and attach a few photos: we reply the same day.

The site visit
Free.
The quote
Fixed price.
Call us

Mon–Fri 8–12 and 13–17.30

1What do you need done?
2How big is the garden?
3When?
4Where is the garden, and who should we call back?
Photos of the garden
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Photos are optional, but they help us give you a first assessment.

For example: how to get into the garden, the materials you prefer.

The site visit is free, anywhere in Ticino.

Phone and opening hours

Call us Monday to Friday, 8–12 and 13–17.30, or send us photos on WhatsApp.

076 393 11 45

Mon–Fri 8–12 and 13–17.30

Call us
Technical line
076 348 42 22
Email
info@gardenspecialist.ch
Office
Via Vignalunga 14A, 6850 Mendrisio
Where we work
Every day we work in Mendrisio, Chiasso and Lugano; for building work, also in Bellinzona and Locarno.