08 — Service
Garden Care & Maintenance
A designed garden and a mown garden are different things. Maintenance is what keeps the first from turning into the second.
Every garden Duncan builds is different, so its care is too. Maintenance keeps each one true to its own design rather than trimming it back to a generic shape.
Pruning and shaping to the design, replacement and seasonal planting, irrigation checks and adjustments, and mulch top-ups and tidy-ups.
The distinction that matters is intent. A mowing round keeps a garden tidy. Maintaining a designed garden means pruning to the shape the design intended, replacing what has failed with what was specified, and keeping the planting in the proportion it was drawn in.
It is most valuable on the gardens Duncan designed and built, because the person maintaining it already knows what every plant in it was chosen to do.
- Pruning and shaping to the design
- Replacement and seasonal planting
- Irrigation checks and adjustments
- Mulch top-ups and tidy-ups
