🌱 Garden Maintenance & Stewardship

Ongoing care that keeps your landscape doing its job

There's no such thing as a truly no-maintenance ecological landscape. Every native garden needs consistent work to keep looking its best. Our stewardship program is weekly, hands-on, and built around the same no-chemical, ecology-first approach as our design work.

Two paths, same garden

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A few skipped months

Weeds seed before you notice. Inkberry holly loses its shape. The invasive seedlings you cleared last season find their way back into open ground. None of it happens all at once. By the time it's obviously overgrown, it's a bigger, costlier job than simply keeping pace would have been.

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A weekly rhythm

This is the kind of garden people stop to ask about. It stays full, tended, and never overgrown. Your native pollinators get deadheaded before you'd think to ask. Invasive seedlings get pulled before they take hold. And the crew that tends it knows the garden well enough to notice what's different the moment they arrive.

Why consistency is the whole point

Consistency is what actually keeps a landscape thriving. It means catching a weed before it seeds, a pest before it spreads, and a shrub before it overgrows its shape. That's why our stewardship runs on weekly visits, not a one-off cleanup or a seasonal drop-in. There's no long-term contract required. It's month-to-month, and you're free to cancel anytime. Most clients stick with it season after season simply because it works.

How It Works

Every plan runs on weekly visits, month-to-month, with no long-term contract. Cancel anytime.

Our crew splits up to run multiple routes across the Triangle, and maintenance visits only happen on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Services included, as time allows

Weeding and weed control
Pruning, shearing & horticultural thinning of shrubs and woody plants
Shearing boxwoods, Japanese holly, yaupon holly, and lavender
Invasive plant removal and management
Organic fertilization
Hand watering and irrigation control
Natural area management
Planting and transplanting
Debris cleanup and blowing (haul-aways incur additional fees)
Composting and compost management
Closed-loop organic material management
Leaf management (full fall leaf clean-ups not included)
Vegetable gardening
Container gardening
Plant health optimization
Insect and disease control
Rose care
Garden design assistance
This program covers regular garden and landscape care. It does not include large tree removals or lawn care for lawns over 800 sq ft.

Pricing

Single Level

Weekly Visits

$270/mo

Minimum of 4, maximum of 6 total gardener hours per month.

Suitable for most small to medium sized gardens.

Double Level

Weekly Visits

$480/mo

Minimum of 8, maximum of 12 total gardener hours per month.

Ideal for medium to larger gardens.

Ask about unique pricing for special situations. Included materials: organic fertilizer, neem oil, organic herbicide, and flame cans. Other materials used are billed with the following month's maintenance. Additional labor beyond the plan is billed at $65/hour/gardener and discussed with you for approval before any work begins.

Ready to put your landscape on a real schedule?

Book a consultation and we'll walk your property and talk through what weekly care actually involves.

Book a Consultation