Usually not. Many of the shrubs and perennials that are established in the garden already have weeds growing out of them or haven’t had a pruning in years themselves. We can clean those up and give them a rejuvenation pruning to help get them back to where they need to be.

No. We focus on the restoration, design, and education components of the process. We’ll take care of getting your garden established, and we’ll provide you with a schedule for pruning and maintenance so that you can have a yard that you can manage yourself or with a basic mow-and-blow crew.

The best times of year to plant and prune the gardens are during early spring and fall, when the temperatures are more mild and the plants have time to establish their roots before the summer heat. However, we can always take an identification walk at any time during the growing season to identify the plants before we start to prune them.

No, our work is focused on vegetable and flowers garden.

We look at two things first: the drainage and sun exposure of the soil. In Connecticut, we also have to take into consideration deer and snow loads. All of the plants that we suggest for people in our area are going to be native or hardy plants that thrive in our climate so that people aren’t spending their money on plants that either die in the winter or get eaten overnight.