Gardeners, Your Landscaper's Partner

Do you want to enjoy beautiful landscaping, but simply do not have the time to care for your flowerbeds and lawn? It might be time to hire a professional gardener. Unlike landscapers, you hire a gardener to maintain your entire lawn throughout the entire growing season. Landscapers generally return to the landscaping project only to make repairs or follow up on landscaping projects.

Weeding Your Landscaping

One chore that gardeners take care of for you that landscapers do not cover is weeding your flowerbeds. The landscapers may incorporate certain design elements to help prevent weeds, such as using special cloths or chemicals to stop weeds from growing. Landscapers, do not, however, come to your home and pull pesky weeds from your grounds. Professional gardeners, on the other hand, routinely pull weeds and keep your landscaping looking attractive.

Keeping Bugs Away from Your Landscaping

Landscapers also do not assist with keeping insects from eating away at your precious plants. Your gardeners, however, will visit your home and spray the necessary pesticides to keep these pests away. If you prefer to go with organic pest control, you can hire a professional that specializes in this type. Either way, it will make your life much easier to hire someone who knows what they're doing to take care of this problem. As with most things in life, prevention is the key. Professionals have the expertise (and the licenses to handle high-powered chemicals) necessary to prevent pests from overtaking your grounds. At the same time, they know how to get rid of them when they do show up.

Growing Healthy Plants

Landscapers are great at picking gorgeous plants that compliment your yard perfectly. They also know how to plant flowers, trees, shrubs, and ground covers in order to ensure the best growing conditions. The job of the landscaper, however, ends there.

Landscapers do not return to your home every season to be sure you are getting the biggest, brightest, most colorful blooms. Instead, you rely on a professional gardener to supply the proper fertilizer to your lawn. Through fertilization, your plants will look attractive and grow back year after year.

Pruning for Happy Returns

Many plants require special care after the growing season is complete. In particular, several plants, bushes, and trees need to pruning at the end of the growing season. Without proper pruning, the blooms will be scanty or, perhaps, not return the following year. Some plants will not grow correctly at all the next year if not pruned. At the same time, pruning other plants can stunt the growth and ruin next year's blooms. Prune your oleanders at the end of the growing season to enjoy beautiful green, but flower-less, shrubs the next spring.

Knowing where, when, and how to properly prune plants is important. Landscapers can show you how and when to do this with your plants, but the gardener takes the stress off of you. For many homeowners, keeping track of the special needs of each plant can become quite confusing. Who needs the headache? Gardeners are skilled at pruning and know just how to get the results you desire.

In the long run, you need both, especially if you can find two to work together. Your landscaper will come in to work with you on design and do the heavy initial work that takes a crew. Your gardener follows up with maintenance and the personal attention your plants need.