CHOOSING THE RIGHT KIND OF LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE FIRM Lots of landscaping companies offer basic yard maintenance services. That is, mowing, edging, mulching, weeding, and spring and fall clean-ups. We call this service mow, blow and run maintenance. Its a bunch of guys, with little horticultural knowledge pruning your shrubs into mushrooms with gas shears and destroying the character of the plant in this fast paced job.
A standard landscape maintenance company will keep your lawn and gardens looking
trimmed But is neat and presentable enough for you? More importantly, is it enough for your gardens?
Before we get into the nuts and bolts of what makes the difference in garden care and landscape maintenance, let’s agree that gardens are not a “set and forget” affair. Your landscape is a living, ever-changing ecosystem that evolves and needs consistent, knowledgeable care over time to achieve its full potential. That requires trained personnel who are attentive to all the details in the landscape both mechanical (Irrigation, Lightings) and horticultural (Plants).
Peter Atkins and Associates began this business with the reality that some properties deserve special attention in how they are maintained. Some properties have lots of beautiful shrubs like azaleas, rhododendrons, boxwoods, flowering trees that require attention with proper pruning. Other properties have perennial gardens that require deadheading, staking, dividing, soil amendments and other landscape gardens require many services from lawn cutting, mulching, cleanups.
The reason we are different is that we selects properties that we wish to maintain with our appointed gardeners. Other jobs come to us from referrals, our website and word of mouth sales. We are a full service landscape architecture, construction and fine garden care business.
Our entire range of services is provided by our in house staff and trusted contractors enabling us to stand behind our work with an unparalleled lifetime guarantee.
These teams will visit your gardens to take care of hand weeding, deadheading, planting your annuals, planting your pots, deadheading your roses, hand prune your shrubs, customized organic turf care, in house masonry, fencing and landscape installations.
Peter will email the client with property updates of what was completed after each visit.
Top-notch garden care makes the difference between a garden that flourishes in all seasons and one that doesn’t live up to its potential.