PROGRESSIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

5-Step Residential Maintenance Program

STEP 1: Spring Cleanup (April through May)

Our Estate Maintenance crew will perform a thorough spring cleanup of your landscape.

This will include removal of debris, cultivation of beds and hand spade all bed edges. A slow release fertilizer

will be used in all plant bed areas to help maintain the correct balance of

Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium for ultimate plant health. At this time

we will also add a pre-emergent weed control. This will keep new weeds from germinating.

If requested by our client, mulch areas will be top-dressed. All plant material

in need of spring pruning and shaping will be completed at the proper time.

Core-aeration or any other lawn renovation needs will be evaluated at this

time upon client request. Spring annuals are optimally planted at this time.

STEP 2: Early Summer Maintenance (June and July)

Approximately 8 weeks after your spring cleanup, our crew will return to weed

and cultivate your beds. Bed edges will again be hand spaded to prevent grass

from encroaching into your planting beds. All spring flowering trees and shrubs

will be pruned at this time, along with any evergreens, which need attention.

If you would like annuals planted we will do so at this time.

STEP 3: Late Summer Maintenance (August and September)

Our experience has proven that your beds will need cultivating and cleaning

at least every 6 - 8 weeks. We will address the same bed work as in Step 2.

This late summer attention to your property will also include dead heading or

pinching back of perennial and annual flowers that have become unsightly. This

will encourage further bloom time. We will also attend to any pruning needs

of your evergreens, ornamental trees and shrubs.

STEP 4: Fall Care and Winterizing the Landscape (October and November)

Our Estate Maintenance crew will perform a final and thorough bed inspection

and Cleanup. This will also include the cutting back of all perennials for winter

protection and the removal of dead annuals. All leaves and other debris will

be removed from all planting bed areas. Core aeration or any other lawn

renovation needs will be evaluated at this time upon client request. Fall pruning

will be performed at this time.

STEP 5: Winterizing Dormant Pruning (November and December)

A final pruning to all summer flowering shrubs will be done to ready them for

the winter. Any shrubs in need of more substantial rejuvenation or dead wood

removal will be addressed at this time.

The 5-Step Estate Maintenance Program will assist you in maintaining a professionally

groomed appearance in your landscape throughout the year. Call today, to assure

your place on our schedule.