what is horticultural care?

The best maintained gardens receive fine gardening services aka horticultural care. Horticultural care picks up where basic maintenance ends, providing proactive care to meet all of your landscape needs, before problems get out of control.

If you’ve invested time and money in your garden, it makes sense to give it the best care to protect your investment, ensure your garden’s longevity and see that it reaches its full potential.

All packages are customized to meet your landscape goals, routine maintenance, special event preparation etc.

A garden is a living organism, we treat it with love and care and provide proactive management - so you can focus on enjoyment.

what’s included?

Horticultural Basic Services Include:

  • Spring & Fall Cleanups

  • Pruning:

    1. Corrective and restorative pruning

    2. Structural pruning of ornamentals: remove dead wood, remove crossing branches, promote growth of central leader, control desired shape

    3. Early spring shaping of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs

    4. Early spring shaping of specific deciduous shrubs

    5. Control of crowding plants

  • Deadheading

  • Transplanting

  • Dividing perennials and ornamental grasses

  • Plant fertilization

  • Pre-emergent herbicide application (for garden beds

  • Soil amendments (iron, etc.)

  • IPM management

  • Monthly reports to keep you apprised of issues, including fixes and recommendations.

optional services

  1. Edging

  2. Mulching

  3. Weeding & Chemical Spot Treatments

  4. Installing seasonal plantings (Annuals, Planters, Window Boxes, Containers)

  5. Installing new plantings

  6. Installing bulbs

  7. Deer repellant applications

  8. Winterizing winter shrubs

  9. Holiday decorating

Proudly Serving: Alpine, Closter, Cresskill, Dumont, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Harrington Park, Haworth, New Milford, New York, Norwood, Old Tappan, Oradell, Paramus, Rockleigh, Teaneck and Tenafly.