When you own a Bergen County home, it’s important to have a lush, green lawn and landscape that enhances the beauty of your home. Maintaining one though is not always easy.
If you’re trying to keep up with DIY lawn care for your home, it may be time to consider professional landscape design services.
Taking care of your own landscape needs can be an overwhelming task. It takes a lot of time, energy and commitment on a regular basis to keep your lawn and landscape looking its best year-round.
By hiring a professional Bergen County landscape company for regular landscape design services, you can devote your time to more enjoyable activities with friends and family.
DIY Landscape Care and Maintenance
If you are taking care of your own lawn and landscape, you already know that it’s a time-consuming, labor-intensive job. Mowing the lawn, trimming the hedges, pruning the trees, weeding, fertilizing, mulching and planting new shrubs, plants and flowers is a big job.
If you work, you’re probably spending your weekends doing lawn care instead of enjoying fun family outings with the kids or relaxing afternoons with friends.
Before you decide to provide DIY landscape care and maintenance for your home, consider some of the disadvantages that can impact on your landscape and your lifestyle:
Less Free Time
Year-round lawn and landscape care is a job that requires a long-term commitment. You should consider your daily schedule and how much free time you have or want to devote to lawn care and maintenance.
If you work long hours, have a big family or have special interests, you may not want to commit your free time to tedious, labor-intensive yard work.
Wouldn’t you prefer to spend your free time doing things you really enjoy?
Wasted Money
Professional landscape design services will likely cost you more money, but think about all the time and energy you will save in return.
DIY lawn care requires to you to purchase lawn care equipment, fertilizers, plant food, soil, mulch, herbicides and pesticides.
Do you know what equipment and products are best for your specific landscape needs? If not, you’re likely to waste a lot of money on the wrong equipment and products.
Poor Quality
Keeping your landscape lush and green year-round is hard enough, but keeping it healthy requires a different level of commitment.
To keep your lawn, plants, shrubs and trees disease-free and pest-free requires a knowledge of plant diseases, outdoor pests, soil types, planting schedules, growth requirements, irrigation needs and proper lawn care products.
Unless you’re prepared to spend some time on research, it’s best to hire a professional for your landscape design services.
In addition to sacrificing your free time, money and landscape quality, you are likely to make mistakes with your DIY landscape care and maintenance. Since you are not a landscape professional, you run the risk of overfeeding or underfeeding your lawn, missing maintenance schedules, over watering or under watering plants and using the wrong type of fertilizers and pesticides that can actually harm or kill your lawn and plants.
Without proper knowledge of plant diseases, harmful insects and outdoor pests that can cause significant landscape damage, you run the risk of dead grass, plants and trees in your landscape.
Before you decide to take on DIY landscape maintenance services for your home, think about hiring a professional landscape company for landscape design services.
A landscape professional has extensive horticulture and product knowledge, skilled landscape crews, years of experience and the proper equipment to take care of all of your landscape needs.
With DIY landscape care and maintenance, you’re likely to find that your investment in necessary time, energy, labor, equipment, products and plant knowledge are not worth your efforts.
Professional Landscape Care and Maintenance
Although you may think that DIY landscape care is saving you a lot of money, it probably isn’t, and you’re sacrificing so many other benefits that professional landscape design services provide.
Unless you’re a landscape professional who’s educated and experienced in lawn and plant care, you can’t compete with professional care.
Take a look at some of the important benefits that come with hiring a landscape professional.
Regular Care and Maintenance
Hiring a professional Bergen County landscape company, like Borst Landscape & Design, ensures a green, healthy landscape year-round.
Trained, experienced landscape crews will provide lawn and landscape care and maintenance on a weekly basis, so you don’t have to worry about keeping your landscape well-maintained.
Regular care and maintenance services include:
- Weekly lawn mowing
- Weeding
- Border edging for walkways and driveways
- Cleaning of hardscaped surfaces
- Spring yard cleanup to remove debris and dead winter growth
- Fall yard cleanup to remove dead summer growth and prepare for winter
In addition to weekly maintenance services, Borst enhancement crews can provide additional landscape design services that include:
- Lawn renovations
- Planting of flowers and small plants
- Shrub and tree pruning
- Mulching
- Fertilizing
- Garden design
- Organic lawn care
- Outdoor pest control
Landscape Maintenance Program
To ensure that your landscape stays green and healthy throughout the year, consider a landscape maintenance program for your home.
With a landscape maintenance program, experienced landscape crews will perform property inspections to look for problems like lawn diseases, harmful insects and outdoor pests that can cause extensive damages to your lawn, plants, trees and shrubs.
If any problems are found, crews will discuss them with you and provide solutions to eliminate the problems.
A landscape maintenance program uses natural, organic solutions without any harsh chemicals. It promotes a safe, chemical-free landscape for your family and pets, so you don’t have to worry about harmful or toxic chemicals, harmful insects or outdoor pests around your Bergen County home.
Specialized Landscape Services
When you hire a qualified, professional landscape contractor, they are experienced and equipped to provide many specialized landscape design services for your home.
If you need to have land cleared, dead trees or stumps removed, terraced levels built, irrigation systems installed or new landscaping done, you don’t have to hire a separate company to do the work.
- Land Clearing and Cleanup – Providing land clearing, hauling and cleanup of seasonal debris such as fallen limbs, dead shrubs and trees, dead brush and excessive or dead leaves that often become a fire hazard in summer and a refuge for outdoor pests in the winter.
- Landscape Grading and Resloping – Providing land grading or resloping for new home additions, outdoor features like swimming pools, spas, patios and terraces, garden areas and irrigation and drainage problems.
- New Landscape Design – Designing, budgeting and installing a complete new landscape that may include new plants, shrubs and trees, patios, outdoor fountains and ponds, landscape lighting and outdoor walkways and driveways.
Design and Build Services
A healthy, well-maintained landscape instantly adds beauty and curb appeal, but when combined with design and build services that add beautiful outdoor features, your property value can increase substantially.
With a qualified, professional landscape company, like Borst Landscape & Design, you can add a variety of great outdoor features to your Bergen County home:
- Swimming pools and spas
- Outdoor waterfalls and fountains
- Outdoor fireplaces and fire pits
- Backyard ponds
- Patios and terraces
- Outdoor walkways and driveways
- Outdoor kitchens
- Retaining walls
- French drains
- Landscape lighting
Special outdoor features will add outdoor ambiance to your landscape, as well as years of enjoyment for outdoor activities with family and friends. Just imagine the future possibilities with a new swimming pool, an outdoor kitchen, a cozy fire pit and soft landscape lighting.
If you’re trying to decide between DIY and professional landscape care, there’s really no comparison.
A professional can provide landscape design services for your home that you can never compete with. If you want a lush, healthy landscape year-round, leave your landscape care and maintenance to the pros.
The extra money you spend for professional landscape services will be well worth the time, effort and sore muscles you save!
