Today our Landscape industry has been inundated with thousands of so called "Companies" that frankly lack the necessary schooling and hands on professional training that is needed in this industry. The most apparent problem I see with the majority of these "Companies" is their lack of knowledge in plant habits and cultural requirements. We have all seen that house down the street who 10-15 years ago had a beautiful new planting design installed on their property, but now, although pruned 2-3 times yearly, is way over grown and in dire need of replacement. What happened? It was so beautiful for the first few years and now look at what it has become. Two problems, if not both, may have occurred. First of all, the "Designer", if we can even call them that, probably knew nothing about plant placement. Secondly, the maintainer of the installed design lacked knowledge in plant pruning techniques. The true "Designer" understands all the plants habits and cultural requirements and will create a beautiful design accordingly. Each plant in a design may also require quite different pruning techniques than the plant next to it. A skilled Horticulturalist is always your best bet for a beautiful planting design and maintenance of that design. Whether it's Brick, Block, Plants, Stone, Wood or Water, if you can dream it, I can Design and Build it. WikWorks, Inc "Work With The Earth"
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