Au Jardin Garden Maintenance is a gardening company that has been run by Anne Fache for 10 years. She offers services in regular maintenance like weeding and pruning, landscaping, and designing your dream garden.
I sit on patio steps, exhausted after shoveling soil and planting what felt like 500 bulbs. Anne sits beside me, seemingly unaffected. The descending winter sun gleams weakly over the two planters we just filled, grey tiles now bursting with fresh soil and verdant plants.
I ask Anne why she decided to start Au Jardin and she laughs, replying that she “didn’t want to work for anybody anymore”. More seriously she adds that she “wanted something a bit more flexible” to look after her children.
Her favorite jobs to do are when, “you can see an immediate change- either after designing something like this [the planters] or even if it’s just clearing gardens, I like it when you arrive and it’s not great and then when you leave, it looks much nicer.”
I ask her how the pandemic affected her company, and…
