Maintenance of Landscaping

Landscape maintenance (or groundskeeping) is the art and vocation of keeping a landscape healthy, clean, safe and attractive, typically in a garden, yard, park, institutional setting or estate. Using tools, supplies, knowledge, physical exertion and skills, a groundskeeper may plan or carry out annual plantings and harvestings, periodic weeding and fertilizing, other gardening, lawn care, snow removal, driveway and path maintenance, shrub pruning, topiary, lighting, fencing, swimming pool care, runoff drainage, and irrigation, and other jobs for protecting and improving the topsoil, plants, and garden accessories.

Groundskeepers may also deal with local animals (including birds, rodents, reptiles, insects, and domestic animals or pets), and create means to attract or repel them, as desired or necessary. A garden may also be designed to include exotic animals, such as a koi pond. In larger estates, groundskeepers may be responsible for providing and maintaining habitat for wild animals.

Ongoing maintenance is important for healthy plants and trees. Unsightly weeds and fungi not only look bad, they steal soil nutrients, water, and sunlight that your landscape plants need to grow properly. Without ongoing control efforts, they will take over.
 

How do you maintain the landscape?

• The Essentials of Maintaining Your Landscape
• Prune Your Shrubs.
• Shape Your Hedges.
• Prevent Weeds, But Weed.
• Water, When Necessary.
• Take Care of Your Insects.
• Deadhead Your Flowers.
• Take Care of Your Soil.