Situated by the boat house at St. Peter’s School was an old hollow mature Ash tree. Previously pollarded which extended its lifespan, unfortunately the time has now come for its removal. The main trunk, however has been left as it has some habitat value. Another old timer turned into logs and woodchip!

A new build at Strensall requires a new garden area!

Rylands have been commissioned to supply & build / lay down a new garden area, around an existing mature apple tree. The designs consists of new lawn areas, corten steel edging, gravel pathways, raised beds, wild flower areas…..

Landscape design plan.

The works will take most of March, ready for the spring.

This is the third time we have surveyed over 1,000 trees for NHS Leeds at LGI, Chapel Allerton, Seacroft & Jimmy’s hospitals. For over 15 years we have monitored and provided management plans for the fantastic trees of all four hospitals. Many are Victorian plantings from years ago, with notable mature species of historic value. There are some unusual and majestic trees on the hospital sites for which a maintenance schedule has been in place for many years. It’s not only people that are cared for on these sites!!

Just a selection of some of our old vehicles, most of which have gone now, but all did a stirling job in carting all manner of tree brash, logs and landscape materials over the years. We ran a couple of Ford cargo wagons, one with a hiab, LDV crew cab tippers and recently Ford transit crew cab tippers. We also needed 4×4 vehicles & always had a landrover somewhere in the fleet.

We even had a company motorbike, for those tricky lanes.. now replaced by a quad.

It was a bad day when we hit the post office van head on in the snow whilst doing a job for James Herriot’s partner near the White Horse!

With over 40 years trading and over 70 members of staff through the years.. there may be a few faces you remember on your tree job or landscape scheme. It’s the quality of staff and people that have worked for us that has made Rylands the company it is today. Plus of course strong management!

Good quality and detailed management, high professional ethics, treating people with courtesy and respect,not messing customers about & doing what we say we are going to do, when we say we are going to do it…that’s Rylands ethos. We also admit when something goes wrong and put things right straight away..

It’s the seven P’s of running a firm… Prior Planning and Preparation Prevent, P— Poor Performance.

Many smiling faces. It’s great to look back and remember working with these people. Many have gone onto other careers in the Industry, some came as students from Askham Bryan College during their training, others went abroad and some are still with us after 40 years!!

This was a nice surprise.. The Arboricultural Association Long Standing Membership Certificate.. 39 years and still going strong!

A nice courtyard design & build to start the 2024 year off….

Artificial turf putting green…. Nun Monkton

Rear terrace garden designed by the client & built by Rylands. Scarcroft Hill, York

Sauna & cold plunge pool plus new terrace constructed by Rylands. Nun Monkton.

Still happy at work!!!

Trees keep coming through….!!!!

With over 40 years of tree and landscaping experience, here are some testimonials from happy clients pleased with our work.