Top 9 Benefits of Hiring Seasonal Landscape Maintenance
With spring and summer bringing a new set of chores, your garden will change along with the seasons. As soon as you have finally completed your spring checklist, summer comes around with another gardening to-do list. Would someone really want to spend their spring, summer, and fall seasons in constant work mode?
Landscapers offer a variety of maintenance options to keep your lawn looking its best year round. Spring clean up, summer plant pruning, and fall clean up are offered by Inch&Co.’s Landscaping Division. Our goal is to provide your plants with the best care, so they can stay healthy and grow strong. Here’s 10 landscape maintenance services along with their benefits.
Less Labor, More Enjoyment: Removal of Weeds and Debris
Ridding your garden of weeds is beneficial for the appearance and health of your garden and without the proper equipment, can be labor intensive. Weeds rob your soil and your plants of important nutrients and water. Removing weeds and debris improves the appearance of your landscape and keeps your plants healthy.
Curb Appeal: Edging
The difference between a professionally maintained property and an average landscape is edging. Edging gives a clean appearance while increasing curb appeal and makes maintenance easier by saving time. Edging not only defines yards, but provides a barrier from invasive grasses reaching the flower beds which brings out the beauty of your home and landscape.
Longterm Benefits: Pre Emergent Weed preventative
Pre-emergent weed preventative is used before mulching to prevent the growth of weeds by stopping them in their germination stage. It is easier to prevent weeds than having to get rid of them afterwards. You can save lots of time and enjoy your landscape all year-round with this application.
Save Time: Top-Dressed Mulch Beds
Mulching can be entire weekend or sometimes, week-long project. Hiring a professional to mulch can save you a lot of time. Top-dressing your garden beds with mulch improves soil and maintains moisture which is beneficial especially during the hot summer months. Top-dressing gives plants organic matter they need to grow best. Mulching
Ongoing Maintenance: Leaf Clean Up
Leaf clean up can be an ongoing effort in order to keeping your landscape leaf-free. Coming home to a clean and well maintained landscape is a great feeling and allows you more time to do the things you enjoy most. Cleaning up leaves is important because when so many leaves fall they can form thick layers which block out air and light from reaching lawn grass. This causes the grass to die if the leaves aren’t removed.
Grow Strong and Healthy: Pruning Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
There are many reasons for pruning ornamental trees and shrubs such as removing dead or weak branches and to reduce the size. Pruning has benefits because it encourages healthy growth and fruit or flower production. Pruning ornamental trees and shrubs is beneficial for reducing insects, allowing light to feed the interior of the plant, denser form/proportion and developing hedge aesthetics.
Bring Out the Beauty: Deadheading Perennials and Flowering Shrubs
Deadheading is done to both maintain appearance and improve overall performance. Deadheading perennials and flowering shrubs makes them appear more neater, encourages the plant to set more buds, and it can help plants conserve energy. Shrubs should be deadheaded to ensure they will bloom profusely the following year.
Timing is Important: Cut Perennials and Grasses and Remove Annuals
Some things are better left to the professionals. Certain plants require you to cut back at certain times of the year. Cutting too soon in Spring or too late in Winter may cause certain plants to die. Cutting perennials, grasses and removing seasonal annuals helps the yard thrive while making sure a home looks well-kept and eye-catching.
It’s All in the Details: Removing Dead or Damaged Branches
It is important to remove dead and damaged branches in order to avoid insects or fungal issues. Removing dead or damaged branches as you find them also potentially prevents an accident or damaged property.
Hiring a landscaper for seasonal maintenance comes with many added benefits, so stop working your weekends away and start enjoying your landscape. Contact us for a free estimate for Spring, Summer, Fall, or Annual maintenance today.
