From the onset, landscape maintenance seems like a simple one-time task. Hiring a landscaping expert seems like an unnecessary expense. Wait until all the shrubs lose shape and the foliage spreads to the pathways, and the lawn is at its worst, you will pay 10x what you would have paid monthly to keep your home elegant and your mind at peace.

Just so you know, maintaining a garden requires consistency, just like you maintain your hair, your garden should have a maintenance routine. A monthly landscape maintenance costs between $200 – $500 depending on your compound’s size. In return, your home grows its value with each passing day.

Landscape Maintenance Tasks

There are several landscape maintenances tasks that you need help with. These include:

Hedge maintenance; growing flowers and trimming them as well as edges
Mulching
Tree management; assessment, cutting, pruning, and removal
Lawn management; mowing, raking, fertilizing the grass, trimming hedges
Flower bed installation and maintenance

Hedge Maintenance:

Have a professional install flower gardens and have them tend to your flowers in their early days. Uneven foliage and hedges give an impression of disorder, if you cannot manage the tasks, every once a month, call a gardener and let them perfect your hedge.

Mulching

Even if you have the expertise, you may not have the time to collect the leaves and other green waste so that you make compost. Some soils require chemicals as well. A professional landscaper will help you with all of this.

Trees Management

Activities such as pruning, uprooting unwanted trees, and assessing them, need a professional. Cutting trees will require a permit. The regulatory authorities usually visit the site to confirm that the tree needs to be cut.

Flower Bed Installation and Maintenance

Initially, you may need an expert’s opinion on the layout design, the ideal flowers to grow on your soil type and in the current climate. Get help choosing the best combination of flowers, shrubs, and trees. Experts charge between $1000 and $3000 for the whole process.

Introducing a flower bed needs mapping. If it’s done right then, maintaining it will be easier. This does not mean a flowerbed cannot be moved. It’s tedious but moving it is possible.

What landscape maintenance services can I do myself?

Watering Flowers

Watering: This is only once or twice a week and can be done via piping or using a watering can or a sprinkler.

Weed Removal

Weeds greatly affect the health of your lawn and flowers. They absorb moisture and leave the foliage to die. Develop a routine where you look out for weed and uproot them. There are also, weed chemicals available in local stores.

Lawn Management

Lawn management involves tasks such as mowing, sidewalk edging, trimming, and collecting debris. You only need to have the time and machinery. These can be treated as DIY tasks.

The only task that you may need help with is fertilization. A professional gardener will know which type of fertilizer is best suited for your lawn at the prevailing weather. They know the amount required how to apply it, and the right time to do it.

Snow and Green Waste Removal

Depending on where you live and in which season it is, gardens can pile up a lot of green waste. Clearing these two not only keeps your compound clean but also helps preserve your foliage.

Landscaping Costs

There is one way you can cut these costs in half. Learn all about the process, the soil, the suitable foliage, and be the expert. After that, instead of hiring a landscaping professional, you hire a gardener. The cost of labor will be cheaper.

A landscaping expert solves more than the physical issues. They offer consultation, they offer accuracy, and in the end save you from a lot of repeated work. They also save you a lot of money and time by advising on the right pieces, foliage, and chemicals to use.