Fine Gardening
Services Offered
For Fine Gardening, we tend your beds and borders. We weed, deadhead, turn the soil, edge and trough. We prune shrubs and ornamental trees, eliminate path weeds, stake, support and protect your plants. We rake, remove debris, fertilize, water, turn and deadhead your containers, fill your birdbaths and fountains. We sweep, tidy, blow out and waterjet your paths. We let you know when your plants are being harmed by diseases or pests and offer treatment suggestions. We do not cut grass or blow snow.
Beds are fertilized monthly and containers bi-weekly. Each team has a certified horticulturist, an experienced Team Leader and experienced gardeners. During high season growth months, we add an additional staff member on each team to ensure that all tasks are completed within the allocated time and budget. Visits are shorter in the months of April, September, October and November but significantly longer in the high growth months of May to August.
We work effectively and quickly; priding ourselves on a high level of service. We have polite, well-trained, uniformed, experienced, reliable Horticulturists and Gardeners who are safety-trained, liability-insured and WSIB compliant. We are members of Landscape Ontario and the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association.
We assess your garden by doing an initial clean up. This allows us to accurately determine how long it will take for each subsequent session and the average amount you will be billed for each visit. We can provide you with an estimate prior to the initial clean up but we can only set the rate for Fine Gardening after getting to know your property and the level of service you desire.
We provide the tools, vehicles, treatments, high bloom fertilizers and waste bags. We take your waste bags to the curb for you. Waste can be removed completely from your site at an additional charge.
Gardening Season
Our season starts the first week of April and ends no later than mid-November.
Weather dependent, we do our best to ensure you get the same time slot each visit often timed for city waste removal. This is challenging and sometimes impossible but we do our best. You will be informed of any delays caused by the obstacles; particularly those caused by heavy rain, excessive heat or health-harming smoke.
We send teams of three for the months of April, September, October and November. During the height of the growing season, we send teams of four.
You will know we were on your property as we leave a White Sheet providing an overview of what we accomplished during the allocated time. We also leave you notes about the follow up required between our visits.
Service Options and Rates
Through the eight month season, we offer weekly, bi-weekly or monthly services, with varying fees associated at each level. Rates will be estimated individually based on your property`s needs. Our rate depends on the size of your garden and how densely it is planted, whether or not it is mulched, etc. These services include a free evaluation of your garden if requested. Following the assessment, we offering suggestions regarding overall improvement, succession of bloom and fullness, soil amendment and mulching. These improvements are completed by our Softscape team following an approved estimate to proceed.
The quantities used vary by site so treatments, waste bags and fertilizers are charged separately.
Payment is by Visa or Master Card on the day the service is delivered. We accept ETF`s but must have a credit card on file to ensure timely payment. A significant discount is available for full season pre-payment each January.
Bulk Materials
Our gardens often need replenishment at some point during the gardening season. We will assess if you require soil amendment to ensure that your plants have a strong growing foundation. Mulch is also very important and asthetically very pleasing. Mulching helps prevent weeds and retain water. Our Aggregates Team can deliver and apply soil or mulch for an additional fee by the yard.
Seasonal Urns and Planting Services
We can enhance your curb appeal each season. Please see our Container Gardening section of this website to understand your options for Season Urns. We are Succession of Bloom experts and can plant perennials and shrubs destined to provide you an interesting and vibrant show throughout all three of the growing seasons…and winter too! We can also take care of your Annuals planting each late May and Bulbs in the fall.
Client Testimonials
“Once again we would Like to thank you and your team for the impeccable professionalism and passion for the work you all do.
The gardens are looking just beautiful. Many of our owners have stopped to tell me how happy they are having Kate’s Gardens doing our gardens.
You are all bringing smiles to many faces. ”
“Thank you all your skills, efforts and concerns for our gardens. Well done.”
“I’d like to thank you and your team for all your help with the flowers. I really enjoyed the experience from our initial consultation to the wedding posse. Much was learned in the process and the end product was a thing of beauty. The tables looked gorgeous with the centerpieces and the tulips really popped!
Thanks again and have a wonderful summer!”
“We are very happy with the service provided and look forward to another year of fine gardening with your wonderful crew and staff.
I’d also like to commend you on your model treatment of staff, from compensation to training to encouragement of personal development. Your HR practices are exceptional for such a small organization. To us that’s just as important as the outstanding service being provided to your customers.”
“ Firstly, I want to express my sincere gratitude for your team’s assistance during the past two visits. We truly appreciate the attention to detail and effort invested in maintaining our garden. The work your team consistently delivers brings us great satisfaction!”
“I just wanted to say a big thank you for my beautiful new gardens. I can hardly wait until it grows in and starts blooming. So exciting. Huge kudos and complements to your team too! What an outstanding group
of people! They worked hard and non stop yesterday with focus and good cheer. They were a pleasure to have around for the day. When they left yesterday, the garden was perfect! I am so thrilled to have this done thanks to your vision and your hardworking team!”
“Came home last night to the most gorgeous garden, front and back….amazing job….thank you!!! We love it!!!!”
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