There is nothing more relaxing than to bask in the beauty of a well-maintained garden. Spending time outside, surrounded by lush greenery is also a great health benefit. Perhaps not so much, though, when a glance around your garden simply reveals a list of chores that you need to get around to. Imagine how much more pleasure you would get from your garden if all those were taken care of by a skilled, professional team.
Beyond your own enjoyment of a beautiful garden, the approach to your house is the first impression visitors or even prospective buyers get of your home. First impressions last, so it makes good sense to ensure that those impressions are positive and welcoming.
Finding The Right One
The pleasure to be taken in a calming outdoor environment and the enhancement of your property’s value are just two of the compelling reasons to hire professional landscaping and garden maintenance company. So, how do you find and procure such services?
As with any maintenance plan, the provider needs to be able to cater for your particular needs, or in this case, those of your garden. You also need to know that they can, quite literally, grow with you as those requirements develop and change.
With these criteria in mind, let’s take a run through what you need and may come to need from your prospective provider.
Lawn Maintenance
Probably the dominant and therefore most important component of the majority of gardens is the lawn. Oddly, the ubiquitous nature of grass also means it’s also often the most neglected. Yet, a healthy, luxurious carpet of vibrant green sets the tone of your garden and reflects how you, yourself, value your home.
Mowing needs to be done with care, of course, and autumn leaves need to be blown to avoid the grass being choked as they decay. Beyond these most basic requirements, weeds need to be discouraged. Supplemental nutrition may be needed and in drier seasons, sprinkler systems may be required. On wetter areas of land, a more comprehensive irrigation system might be worth considering. Hire a professional grounds maintenance contractor to maintain the view of your lawn in all seasons.
You might feel your lawn needs replacing, either for a fresh start now or at some point in the future. Possibly, even, a complete makeover or landscaping of your garden is desirable. A great provider of commercial landscape services will have the range of skills and offer the flexibility of services required to cater for these current needs and implement any future decisions.
Fabulous Foliage
Trees, bushes and plants of all shapes and hues add character and an element of fascination to your outside space. An experienced landscape and maintenance professional will be able to provide invaluable advice on what flora will work well together, both aesthetically and in the conditions of your geographical location. Once decisions are made, they will make it happen and nurture the resulting creation with the skills required to keep it happening.
Even if you already have your foliage in place, skilled care can transform the appearance of any personal haven of nature. Pruning and trimming need to be planned and executed with considerable precision for bushes and hedges to fill in fully. Similarly, trees must be caressed with careful cuts, into desirable shapes, to provide a healthy canopy of shade in just the places where you want it.
The planning and work that go into creating or transforming a garden to truly reflect the pride you take in your home, are meticulous and thorough. All the more reason to find a team you can trust to create and maintain a space where all you need to do, is relax and enjoy.
Cultivated to The Core
What you see, when you gaze around the gorgeousness created by your well-chosen crew, is only part of the work of a good landscaper. One who really knows their craft will have a good knowledge of their most important material, which is the soil.
Lawns and foliage not only depend entirely on healthy soil, they also demand a lot from it. One of the secrets behind a healthy, vibrant garden, is core aeration. As soil becomes compacted, your precious plants and lawn find it more difficult to draw in nutrients and oxygen. Making the solution to this problem a priority
If you want your leafy investments to stay healthy, green and welcoming to yourself and your visitors, choose a landscape and maintenance service skilled at core aeration. Knowing both when and how to do it most effectively.
The Elixir of Life
As a human, this may mean to you that freshly mixed Martini, sipped among gently rustling leaves, while reclining on your lawn chair. To your garden, however, it means water. The most basic requirement for all that lives.
Your garden management provider must have a thorough knowledge and good experience of irrigation. The provision of water to your lawn, trees, shrubs and plants is as important an issue as the health of the soil.
They also need to be flexible in what they can and will supply. For a small lawn, you may only require one sprinkler while a larger area will, obviously, require more. You certainly don’t want to lose carefully nurtured trees or shrubs to dehydration, so perhaps you need tree soakers.
A good maintenance service may be able to help you save water by using drip irrigation with some of your plants. A method that provides just the right amount of water directly to the soil around the root. Make sure the one you choose has the expertise and flexibility to provide any or all of these options.
Ready to Act
Consideration of these points should have armed you with much of the information you need to choose a landscape service provider.
When doing so, bear in mind all the aforementioned criteria and be sure they meet these. A good landscaping and maintenance company will not only be able to do everything mentioned but will have a range of service packages available to suit the needs of your garden.
You’ll be able to discuss with them what’s required and devise a plan that does all that you need. Leaving you to simply enjoy a well-kept outdoor space that no longer presents you with a nagging to do list.
Having made and secured your choice, simply kick back in that lawn chair, relax and sip your own favorite elixir. Knowing that all is good with your own little bit of the world.
