Services

Services offered: Installation, maintenance, consultation/education. 

Installation: Gardens are designed with aesthetics, ecological function, and personal goals in mind. We can work on an existing garden bed or create new garden beds.   

• Ecological function: 

  • Right plant, right place

  • Blooms for all 3 seasons

  • Food sources for all 4 seasons if possible

  • Recreates natural ecosystems as much as possible

  • Reduces long-term maintenance by crowding out nonnative invasive plants with native plants.

  • Since I do the maintenance of native gardens, I understand first hand how gardens can change over time and what is necessary to allow them to grow to their full potential in conjunction with your garden goals.   

• Aesthetics

  • Use plants that work well together based on ecological function, bloom times, size, sociability (aggressiveness of plant), architectural plants, repeated patterns

• Personal goals

  • Do you want your garden to produce food?

  • Do you want your garden to produce medicine? 

  • Do you want a sensory garden? 

  • Do you want 4 season interest? 

  • Do you want privacy? 

Maintenance: Native gardens are not maintenance free. However, properly installed and maintained native gardens should reduce the amount of maintenance needed. The goal of maintenance is to keep reducing the amount of maintenance over time. Below is a list of maintenance services offered. I offer maintenance to all native gardens and not just gardens I install. 

• Weeding

• Transplanting 

• Removal

• Chelsea chop, shearing, staggering bloom times, deadheading. 

• Cleanups: We can find a balance of aesthetics and ecological function based on your preferences.

• Offer suggestions for future plantings and ways to keep weeds to a minimum to reduce future maintenance 

Consultation/Education: Some of us are just looking for a little guidenace. As an educator, I enjoy being able to work with people on how to native garden so you can become self-sufficient if that is your goal. Here are some of the items we can work on together...

• Plant selection and purchasing

• Design 

• Maintenance goals