Trained in plants, not just equipment
BC Landscape and Nursery Association standards
Someone who knows your garden
Langley, Surrey, Delta and White Rock
The pruning window for most of what grows here. Roses, fruit trees and summer flowering shrubs are cut while dormant, before the sap rises.
Beds cleared and edged, mulch down before the soil dries, feeding where it is wanted, and the first shaping of the year as growth starts.
Deadheading to keep flowering going, watering advice through the dry spell, shaping after the spring flush, and staying ahead of weeds.
Cutting back what should be cut and leaving what feeds the birds, dividing crowded perennials, planting bulbs and putting beds to rest.
Weeding, edging, feeding and replanting gaps. The work that decides whether a border looks kept or merely cut.
Shrubs, roses, fruit trees and ornamentals, pruned by what they are and when they flower.
Cut to shape and kept to size, timed so nesting birds and next season's growth both come out of it well.
New plants chosen for the position, the soil and the light, so they establish instead of being replaced.
Feeding the soil rather than the plant. Mulch holds summer moisture and keeps weeds down all year.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, with the same gardener each time so nothing has to be explained twice.
It depends on the size of the garden and how often you want visits. A fortnightly border round and a full seasonal overhaul are very different jobs. We walk the garden, quote in writing, and the number does not move afterwards.
A landscaper builds and a gardener tends. Landscaping is design, construction, hard surfaces and installation. Gardening is the ongoing care of what is planted, which is mostly pruning, soil and timing. We do both, but they are genuinely different jobs.
Most Langley gardens do well on fortnightly visits through the growing season and monthly over winter. Larger or more planted gardens want weekly in spring. We will tell you honestly what yours needs rather than selling the biggest schedule.
It depends entirely on the shrub. Anything that flowers on old wood is pruned right after it flowers, or you cut off next year’s display. Summer flowering shrubs are cut in late winter while dormant. Getting this wrong is the single most common reason a garden stops flowering.
Yes. A garden is easier to look after when someone remembers what was planted, what was cut back last season and what has been struggling.
Usually, yes, and it is worth asking before buying a replacement. In this part of the Fraser Valley the answer is most often winter drainage rather than the plant itself.
Yes, across Langley, on scheduled programs with the same gardener each visit.
Yes. Some gardens need bringing back before they can be maintained. If yours has got away, that is a cleanup first and a schedule afterwards.
