Garden management verses garden maintenance

Why does Real Oasis provide garden & landscape management as opposed to garden maintenance?

Garden maintenance as a practice is very old fashioned and is usually performed by individuals or companies with limited knowledge of their field.

For example

· In the July heat wave of 2006 did your garden maintenance company cut your lawn short? Or did they advice you that they were going to cut the lawn longer than normal or possibly leave cutting the lawn for another week? If they cut it short, then dock their pay.
· Did they advise that additional mulch and chippings applied to flower beds would help to conserve water? These are just basic best-case practice techniques, which help with aspects like water conservation and assist your garden or landscape to look better.

Garden management is all about working alongside the client to develop the garden or landscape and to realise it’s full potential, through best-case practice Garden management is more expensive when compared purely on a per hour basis, however, good practice means less maintenance, therefore, garden management is usually a competitive practice In addition, you are ensured of skilled professionals with excellent plant and plant maintenance knowledge.

Q. What is garden maintenance?

Garden maintenance is regular or scheduled cutting or turf, weeding, deadheading… Every week or fortnight someone comes round to your property and does whatever you have set out in your schedule. Some are excellent others should be locked up, as their knowledge of the subject is very poor and can cause more problems than they solve.

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