Garden Gnome Plantscapes

Regular garden maintenance visits are the cornerstone of our schedule and how we ensure consistent quality garden care. Visiting your space often allows us to keep up with everything in a timely fashion. Typical maintenance includes weeding, deadheading flowers, removing debris, trimming and pruning, lawn care, and other tasks as needed.  Periodically, longer seasonal maintenance visits may be required, for tasks such as mulching, planting flowers, pruning shrubs, irrigation adjustments, pressure washing, etc.

We visit each neighborhood on a different day of the week. We offer weekly or biweekly maintenance visits. Every two weeks seems to be good for most gardens, but weekly visits can help keep a garden in pristine shape or allow us to keep up with a very large garden. Some lawns also grow fast enough during summer to warrant weekly mowing. We discourage monthly or longer waits between service, because it can become impossible to get ahead of weeds and debris. We can work with you to find a schedule that fits your needs and we can always adjust as needed.

Larger and more complex special projects like renovations, planting, repairs, etc. are often scheduled separately from garden maintenance. Smaller plantings, mulching, etc. are usually done in conjunction with regular maintenance.​

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Customers receive monthly invoices, through email or hard copy, payable online or by check, due 30 days after receipt. Invoices are itemized by date with notes about what was done at each visit. We operate on a labor+materials billing system, which seems to be the most fair for all sides: we get paid for what we do, and you pay for what you get. Our labor is billed at $65 per worker per hour for time spent on the property or otherwise directly involved in a job (including consulting, planning, transportation or preparation of materials, etc.), Invoices do not differentiate labor time between maintenance work and special projects. Materials are billed at or around typical market rates, plus sales tax. Backflow tests are $150 + the city's $65 permit fee; we offer a discounted rate of $100 per test for our contracted garden maintenance customers. Pesticide applications will be billed at separate flat rates depending on the area, amount, and type of product used. Labor times may be rounded up to the nearest quarter of an hour for ease of calculation, with a minimum of a half hour labor time per visit. We may mark up work from subcontractors, for example a licensed electrician or arborist, up to 20% from their cost, to cover our time and energy spent arranging the job with them for you. Late payments may be subject to a finance charge of up to 5% applied every 30 days past the due date of each invoice to help us cover the costs of carrying the debt. These terms and prices are subject to change at any time without notice, although we usually let our customers know when things change.

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We look forward to finding a way to work together and keep your gardens beautiful! To start the process, you can pick up your phone and give Caleb a call or text at (504) 266-1664 to schedule a meeting.