Landscaping beds add a clean and beautiful look to a well-kept yard. Beds set off ornamental shrubs, flowers, bushes, and trees from your yard and promote strong health for these perimeter plants. They also help provide proper drainage and moisture control around the foundation of your house. After you have made the investment into building and planting your landscaping beds with your favorite perennials, shrubs, trees, and other plants, they will, of course, require regular and professional maintenance to look their best and to stay protected and healthy. Volunteer Lawn Care provides expert bed maintenance as a key part of our regular landscaping and lawn care services.
Beds should receive planned care seasonally. Regular hand edging beginning in the Spring and continuing through the growing season keeps the barriers between beds and lawn clean and crisp looking. Spring is also the time for mulching and putting down necessary pre-emergent herbicides to stop weeds and crabgrass before they ever start growing. Trimming keeps groundcover plants from intruding into the space of other plants and building foundations. Shrubs and trees inside beds should be pruned to promote strong and natural growth and to eliminate diseased branches.
Mulch performs many essential functions in landscaping beds. During the winter months, mulch provides insulation that protects roots and stems. In warm months, the insulation mulch provides keeps direct sunlight and heat away from those same vulnerable roots. It also keeps moisture in the ground where it is available to plants between rains and watering and can substantially prevent weed growth in covered areas. Quality organic mulch decomposes over the year, adding nutrients back to the bed soil. Mulch requires regular maintenance so that unwanted insects, bacteria, and fungi will not appear in your landscaping beds. Some fungal growth is helpful to the soil’s nutrition, and we stir, and add dry mulch as needed to maintain a healthy organic composition. Although mulch does decompose, it is important that old mulch be removed as needed in the Spring before fresh mulch is laid down.
During the course of the growing season, we maintain beds with hand edging and careful weeding as needed. Depending on the species planted in your beds and the types of weeds that need to be prevented, later season pre-emergent herbicides are selected and properly applied. Raking and fluffing mulch is another end-of-season step that is essential to good-looking and healthy beds through the cold weather. Some perennials also need pruning and cutting back before winter sets in.
Volunteer Lawn Care is the #1 professional lawn care and landscaping service in East Tennessee, proudly serving all of the Oak Ridge and Clinton communities and Roane and Morgan Counties. We are your go-to firm for unmatched customer service, and we will do everything it takes to ensure your complete satisfaction. We value your feedback and look forward to getting started by providing you a free estimate for the services you need. Contact us today and look forward to a beautiful yard all year round.