Year-Round Garden Maintenance

Year-Round Garden Maintenance

Garden stewardship. We care for your plants with the same attention to detail as a botanical garden.

Real garden maintenance is horticulture, not just tidying. The work that keeps a bed looking effortless is mostly timing: pruning each shrub in its correct season so you do not cut off next year’s flowers, weeding before plants set seed, and refreshing mulch to hold moisture and suppress the weeds that never stop in our climate. We prune for the plant’s natural habit rather than shearing everything into a ball, because a shrub allowed to keep its form stays healthier and needs less intervention over the years.

The Pacific Northwest rewards a specific kind of attention. Long wet winters mean moss on hardscape and stems, botrytis and mildew on crowded plantings, and slugs that treat a garden as a buffet. Good airflow through thoughtful pruning, along with beds kept clear of decaying debris, prevents most fungal issues before they start. On our clay soils, cultivating the top layer and topping up organic mulch each year steadily improves drainage and structure, which is what separates a garden that merely survives from one that fills in and thrives.

The other quiet advantage of consistent care is early detection. A crew that visits the same beds through the seasons notices aphids, scale, or a struggling plant while it is still a small fix, so problems get corrected before they spread or a mature specimen is lost.