Need A Little Trim? Proactive Trimming Prevents Challenges

Proactive tree and shrub trimming helps prevent landscape maintenance challenges.

According to Island Landscape, a licensed landscape contractor in California and Hawaii and maintenance company, infrequent trimming can:

• contribute to poor irrigation coverage, 
• cause sprinkler head blockage, 
• reduce lighting, 
• impede access/walkway areas, 
• create security challenges,
• increase your liability, and 
• create more green waste.

By maintaining a regular trimming schedule, you will increase the enjoyment of your garden or landscape and help avoid these challenges.

Is Your Plant Receiving The Right Water?

When a treasured plant in your garden or landscape dies, it feels bad.  It can lead some to believe that they do not have a green thumb.  I know, because I have often felt this way.  However, I later realized the challenge was more an issue of not having the necessary plant knowledge to care for particular plants.

Plant health is often an issue of location and watering.

According to Island Landscape, a licensed and insured landscape contractor in California and Hawaii, yellowing, drying, burning, bug infested or dying plants may not be getting enough water or too much.  

Find out or ask your professional gardener or landscape maintenance company if problem plants are appropriate for the zone they are in and getting the right amount of water.  Adjust the the watering schedule for each as necessary.  

If you need further help, a landscape maintenance professional will be able to discuss and make plant recommendations based on the plant type, weather patterns for the area, sun exposure and soil conditions.

Knowledge is key, so get the knowledge you need to appropriately water your plants.

Avoid Water Problems in Your Garden & Landscape

Water is a precious resource that must be conserved.  Unidentified irrigation challenges can lead to high water bills, be detrimental to plants, create environmental issues, cause property damage, and increase your liability.  The following is a landscape maintenance tip from Island Landscape, a licensed landscape contractor in California and Hawaii, to help home owners and property managers know what to look for.

Soil run-off, erosion, moss, green walls, and dramatic changes in plant coloring can all be signs of excessive water use, along with more obvious signs of over watering such as ponding or running water.  Keep an eye out for these symptoms and take appropriate action.  

Your professional gardener or  landscape maintenance company should regularly monitor your irrigation system for:

• appropriate seasonal watering (making adjustments for rainfall and other weather conditions), 
• damaged sprinkler heads, 
• valve problems, 
• broken lines, 
• improper trimming, etc. 

Correct excessive watering or irrigation system issues immediately and keep a report of the work done.  It will benefit you, your garden and landscape, and the environment.

Be Water Wise