Landscape Maintenance
Let's dig into details about landscape maintenance, beginning with mulching!
We recommend adding premium mulch to your landscape beds each spring as it breaks down nicely for compost and is healthier for the plants. It also helps to freshen up the look of your landscaping for the rest of the summer! We can also install dyed mulch if it is preferred.
For spring mulching, we typically put down 1 inch of mulch and taper it away from plant trunks, so it does not build up and injure the plant. The mulch is also tapered to the bed edge, so the edge looks clean and crisp. When installing new landscape beds, we apply about 3” of mulch to keep moisture in to help the newly planted landscape.
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It’s important to keep weeds cleared out of flowerbeds so that they do not spread into the flowers, shrubs, and lawn. Our landscape maintenance crews go to trainings each year to keep up on weed identification.
When preparing your landscape beds for fresh mulch a clean deep bed edge is a must! We use our machine bed edger that allows us to cut a nice, easily shapeable, edge to the flower bed. The typical edge is two to three inches deep (when rocks and tree roots are not an issue).
Our foreman have many years of experience with hand pruning shrubs and power trimming. If we are unfamiliar with a certain plant we will take the time to research it to make sure we know how to properly prune it at the right time of year and using the correct technique. We always clean up all the trimming debris and haul it away to make sure your property is left looking beautiful!
Spring, summer and fall are all important times to have your pruning and trimming completed.
In the spring it’s important to trim out any dead or damaged limbs or branches that may have been broken over the harsh winter. If they are not properly pruned out at the beginning of the season they could be susceptible to infection and disease throughout the summer months. We also clean out any other debris that might be left over from winter.
Mid-Summer is when most of the major trimming and pruning of shrubs and trees is done. It’s important to wait until most of the shrubs are done pushing their new growth so that there’s less of a chance of them growing out too much after the trimming is done. Trimming during this season helps to keep shrubs maintained to a manageable size so that they don’t get too overgrown. Pruning or dead-heading perennials or flowering shrubs that are done blooming at this time of year can also help to encourage re-blooming. This helps you to get the most color out of your garden all summer!
Lastly, fall is the time of year to prepare your flowerbeds for the upcoming winter months. It’s important to trim back perennials and flowering shrubs so that they are protected from damage and disease over the winter. It’s also the time of year when leaves should be blown out of the beds and cleaned up, along with any other debris. This helps to keep certain types of mold from growing in your flowerbeds.