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Waterfall City Gardening

SOUND PRINCIPLES

for successful landscaping maintenance

By Emile Bolton, STM Landscaping

A dense, fully established garden with year-round flowering time and definition Aquatic plant species also require attention to stay healthy.
in colour.
A of, and your landscape is lush, healthy, and green for many
residential landscape is so much more
than just your lawn. Landscaping connects
years to come.
your home with the environment, creates
a welcoming ambience, elevates the
one person to the next. Rock features, aquatic designs, wild
magnetic curb appeal or backyard oasis, supports Landscaping is a creative process, and creativity differs from
air-cleaning plant life and forms a habitat for birds grasses, succulents, and formal or informal creations, all
and pollinators. In addition, maintaining a landscape have a place and require maintenance in their respective
assists in increasing the value of your home. ways. From regular care to seasonal to-dos, landscape
maintenance involves a variety of tasks. Many of these tasks
For many discerning homeowners, landscape maintenance should fall to a professional, such as pruning, fertilisation,
is not just about keeping the grass green during the and sprinkler audits.
summer months but also about proactively caring for the
health, beauty, and longevity of your landscape as a whole. The six non-negotiable principles to ensure success:
If this sounds like you, you likely prefer to partner with a 1. Plant health
landscaping professional to ensure everything is taken care Once you have plants in the ground, the work isn’t done.

Spring treatments are aggressive practices to ensure plant health. Four weeks after spring treatments.

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