Peter Atkins is an accredited Horticulturist, Organic Land
Care specialist and Landscape Architect who is a Landscape Contractor and plant enthusiast. He works with Landscape
homeowners to build and maintain exquisite ecological gardens in lower Fairfield and upper Westchester counties.
We are very proud to be an accredited North East Organic Land Care firm with NOFA.ORG. We are a 100 percent organic land care business. We offer organic lawn care, soil building, and much more. We protect your family from chemical applications that will affect your family, pets, water supply and local environment with synthetic fertilizers that destroy the soil biology below your landscape beds/grass. There are smarter solutions, and we are available to show you how.
Peter Atkins and Associates always uses organic and natural methods to guide gardens into mature ecosystems.
Peter believes that making gardens is a collaborative,
artistic process. In collaboration with his team of expert Gardeners, Irrigation Technicians, Masons, Horticulturalists, and Project Managers, Peter enriches his clients lives through continually beautifying their outdoor spaces.
Every garden needs ongoing care. Most people trust there landscapers who has not formal training and most often does not know a native plant from a weed. Landscape should be removing invasives plants such as barberry, mugwort, thistle, iron weed, poison ivy not native plants that look like weeds that are actually feeding the local pollinators on your property. Peter Atkins and Associates gardens aims to meet those needs with an environmentally friendly approaches.
Holistic Maintenance includes pruning (hard, tip, and structural), deadheading, weeding, and other services informed by a scientific approach. I offer fine garden maintenance to meet the garden and landscape specific requirement and also your budget guides.
Most home gardens are maintained by “mow and blow” garden crews. These crews use loud, gas guzzling machines to perform their work, with no knowledge of how to properly care for plants. A lot of companies only employ shearing. Shearing with a power tool is a quick, easy way to maneuver through a property but is not ideal for all plants because it promotes growth on the exterior only and impedes airflow throughout the interior of the plant. This can cause pests and fungal issues that normally would not develop with plants hand pruned either formally or in the natural format of the plant.
Hand pruning is the best way to care for almost everything that grows in your yard. We only use hand tools for our pruning duties. Always have and will stand by this art for for correct pruning.
It’s important to ask good questions before signing a
contract for landscape maintenance services. Even if you think your property only needs basic services, you still want to know: Who will oversee my account?
Communication should be easy. One point of contact is best. You want to know that your preferences will be communicated to the landscaping crew and that you only must tell the account manager once.
Will the same crew come to my property
on each visit? Yes, is the answer you want to hear. A dedicated crew “learns” your property, and that makes it possible for them to take care of it exactly as you wish consistently. They will know how it should look when it is at its best and will notice if something is amiss.
Bad things happen to gardens all the time. There are soil
issues, changing moisture conditions, insect infestations, and disease. Without regular inspection, any of these issues could damage or even kill beloved trees, shrubs, perennials, lawn and native plants. At the very least, you will have a yard that becomes increasingly lackluster and boring over time if you stick with the conventional approach-standard landscape maintenance. On the other hand, a world of
possibilities opens when you work with a firm that practices a management approach to landscape and garden care. Even if your landscape doesn’t include specimen plants, water features, irrigation and lighting systems, a landscape
management approach brings professionals who possess detailed horticultural knowledge and an extensive skill set to work on your landscape and gardens.
Hiring a landscape management firm is worth it to the person
who wants to get all the beauty and value out of their property over multiple seasons. It’s for the person who truly enjoys a healthy, thriving outdoor environment. A well-maintained garden is an everyday pleasure and worth the
investment because it’s something that enriches your life.
Please schedule a phone consultation with owner Peter Atkins at (914) 234-0161 and PeterHAtkins62@gmail.com.