Typically, the tenant is responsible for maintaining the garden but should not need specialist gardening knowledge, skills or tools (other than those provided by the landlord). Techniques for the training, fertilization, pest and pathogen control, pruning and shaping of trees requires specialist knowledge, skills and tools and something the landlord be responsible for.
Also, some landlord insurance policies require landlords to arrange annually, at their own expense, for a tree surgeon to inspect trees for which they are responsible (typically within 10 metres of the property and over 5 metres in height) to ensure that they do not affect the structure, drains or sewers at the property and to prune or pollard trees as recommended by the tree surgeon.
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