Garden Maintenance

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Regular & Seasonal Maintenance

Scheduling a regular garden maintenance plan will free up time while keeping your plants healthy and your landscape in pristine condition.

What is a garden maintenance plan?

Garden maintenance plans keep your landscape beautiful and healthy through a series of regularly-scheduled visits by our team of professional gardeners. We'll work to maintain and improve your garden at a frequency that works best for your landscape and your budget.

Depending on your specific needs, you can choose to book garden maintenance year-round or you may prefer to hire us on a seasonal basis.

What work is done during garden maintenance?

From thorough weeding to careful pruning, the checklist of work we perform is determined by the needs of your landscape. As our team frequents your site, we will continue to observe, understand, and evaluate your garden so we can choose the tasks that will help your landscape thrive.

Our garden maintenance plans are completely customized. We can accommodate nearly any budget, size, and type of garden at any level of garden maintenance.

WHAT WE DON'T DO: Please note that North Arrow Landscapes does not currently offer lawn mowing services or chemical spraying of any kind.

Benefits of Professional Garden Maintenance

Maintenance plans are great for reducing the time and energy you spend caring for your garden – but that's not all. Here are 6 additional reasons to have us take care of the upkeep for you.

Less worry

Your garden should add something to your life, not make you feel stressed. Garden maintenance plans allow you to enjoy your garden without worrying about the to-do list.

Better looks

With our regular visits your landscape will achieve an aesthetic and a level of vitality that only a passionate team of professional gardeners can offer.

Fewer problems

Consistent visits allow us to notice small concerns before they're big problems. We'll make timely plant health interventions and irrigation repairs as needed.

Faster healing

Over time we can correct common and damaging garden mistakes, such as healing hedge-trimmed trees and shrubs that should have been hand pruned.

Increased knowledge

It is both our responsibility and our pleasure to educate our clients on our chosen courses of action, and we love sharing our in-depth plant knowledge.

More time outside

An overgrown or cluttered space can deter you from enjoying your garden, and lead to an underutilized or neglected landscape. We'll get you back outside!

The Methods to our Maintenance

We approach maintenance with a keen eye for detail and artistry, just as we do with new garden designs.

Can I choose my preferred garden style?

Absolutely. With our garden maintenance plans you'll achieve the visual style of garden that you like best.

Whether the polished and manicured aesthetic of a show garden, the discretely maintained wild of a naturalistic landscape, or the functional aesthetic of the suburban plot, each scenario receives our same high level of professionalism and attention to detail.

Can you work within my budget?

When budget is a concern we can offer to selectively choose tasks that keep your gardens healthy and beautiful while still remaining within your means. The best thing to do is contact us to schedule a consultation and see if we're the right fit for your landscape.

Will you help to evolve and improve my garden?

Yes. Our experience will allow us to bring out the full potential of your garden's character and style.

For example, we may suggest interplanting to fill out a space, or ask to remove or transplant specimens that aren’t thriving or are poor choices for their current location.

Garden Maintenance Checklist

Each garden requires different tasks at different times and intervals. From weeding to pruning, transplanting and irrigation repair, here’s an overview of the most common tasks on our service list.

Please note that North Arrow Landscapes does not currently offer lawn mowing services or chemical spraying of any kind.

Regular Maintenance

  • Weeding garden beds
  • Caring for perennials, such as dead-heading and removing dead foliage
  • Raking out garden beds
  • Removing invasive species
  • Pruning/trimming of woody or herbaceous plants
  • Clearing pathways, driveways, stairs, and doorways of branches and debris
  • Leaf-blowing hard surfaces
  • Repairing irrigation breaks
  • Realigning irrigation heads/nozzles
  • Removing deadwood
  • Monitoring plant health

Seasonal Maintenance

  • Pruning fruit trees and shrubs
  • Pruning ornamental trees and shrubs (both broadleaf and conifer)
  • Pruning hedges
  • Pruning to restructure woody plants (renovation pruning)
  • Pruning roses (climbers, ramblers, and shrub roses)
  • Cleaning up ponds
  • Caring for aquatic plants
  • Applying fertilizer
  • Preparing irrigation systems in Spring (repairing breaks, reviewing watering schedules, checking rain sensor operation, re-aligning heads, replacing filters, etc.)
  • Winterizing irrigation systems (blow-outs)
  • Applying mulch or compost
  • Dividing perennials and bulbs
  • Transplanting and replacing plants
  • Edging garden beds

Browse Our Complete Services

  • Landscape Design

  • Naturalistic Landscapes

  • Water Features

  • Irrigation Services

  • Garden Maintenance

  • Garden Renovation

  • Pruning & Hedging

  • Natural Stone

  • Patios & Pathways

  • Coaching & Consulting

Ready to build a beautiful, manageable landscape that thrives on Vancouver Island? We’d love to chat.