Ideally, you would want to work with a residential landscaping service that practices an all-in-one approach. That is, one that fluidly toggles between detailed garden maintenance, preventive hardscape maintenance, and landscape equipment maintenance.
Why? Because an outdoor environment is composed of both “living” and mechanical systems that must work seamlessly together to bring out the best in your lawn and gardens.
So when does it make sense to look for a landscape maintenance company that takes this overall management approach? Perhaps you’ve outgrown your current landscape company. They’ve been dependable and have always done a good job but they offer only a limited range of services. They don’t seem to have the resources or expertise to deliver the detailed lawn and garden maintenance that you want to see when you step into your yard. Meanwhile, you still have to contract separately with other companies to maintain your water feature or pond filtration equipment or to monitor the irrigation system.
One Landscaping Services Company – One Point of Contact
Your outdoor environment is composed of horticultural elements (lawn, plants, shrubs, trees), structural elements (patios, walkways) and mechanical systems (irrigation, water features). All deserve expert care and attention.
A landscape maintenance service that offers an all-in-one approach to landscape maintenance and garden care has the built-in capacity and versatility to do it all. It has trained personnel who are organized around completing multiple tasks on multiple levels with great attention to detail.
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Distinctive benefits of having one company manage all your landscape maintenance services are:
1 Accountability
Your landscape maintenance service provider assigns one person to manage your property. That person is responsible for all aspects of your outdoor environment and oversees the landscaping crew that takes care of it. A top-notch garden maintenance expert is invested in the success of your gardens and landscape.
2 Partnership
You will develop a partnership with a garden maintenance manager who ideally will be a certified horticulturist. That person will be your single point of contact and go-to person for everything outside. The garden manager listens to your preferences and communicates them to the landscape technicians to ensure a consistent level of care and maintenance. So, you only have to explain things once to that one person.
3 Attentiveness
The garden maintenance manager and crew are, in addition to completing scheduled tasks, always assessing the condition of the lawn and plantings. They check for signs of stress that could, for example, indicate a need to increase or decrease irrigation. They will notice if a light fixture has been knocked over or burned out and fix it.
4 Design Savvy
The best garden maintenance managers are sensitive to what the landscape designer had in mind and are able to instruct the landscaping service technicians on how to treat your plants and trees to fulfill that design vision to your standards. This translates into the opposite of a “one-size-fits-all” program: a landscape maintenance services program that is customized to address the individual needs of the different plant varieties and landscape support systems at the right times during the growing season.
At a standard landscape maintenance services company, you will typically be assigned a client account manager. That person may not possess horticultural expertise and may not necessarily be involved in weekly care. Typically, an account manager tends to focus on new sales and upgrades to existing contracts. And once your maintenance program is up and running they hand off to the weekly maintenance crews.
One Size Fits Some But Not All
Many landscaping service companies send out separate crews that specialize in a prescribed set of tasks–and that’s all they do. It ends up being a sort of one size fits all approach. That can work perfectly well for some customers but not all.
It is easy to understand why a larger company might take this approach because it keeps costs down by facilitating volume delivery of a fixed menu of services quickly. However, that efficiency can come at the cost of attention to details that fall outside of a narrowly prescribed set of tasks.
There is another way to calculate efficiency aside from speed and volume. Use one company for everything. It is efficient and effective to deal with one company that sends the same crew every time to deliver coordinated care for your plants, lawn, and landscape systems (irrigation, water features) that altogether contribute to a healthy landscape.
One Landscape Maintenance Service Company Does It All
If you were to use two companies–one for garden care and another for irrigation maintenance–those people may not be talking to each other. So, if your garden maintenance crew notices a change in moisture requirements, their observation may not be communicated to the irrigation people in a timely manner. The best landscaping services adapt their care program to what the crews observe happening in the landscape. They adapt to the needs of the gardens and lawn.
Even if your yard is somewhat small, if you’ve invested in specimen plantings and gone out of your way to make it beautiful, you obviously care about those plants. You care about having that beautiful scene to relax in. You don’t want to risk that investment to less than optimum care.
A company that provides full-service landscape maintenance and garden care services will deliver the benefit of fine gardening techniques plus the technical expertise needed for calibrating and maintaining your landscape support systems.
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