Specialized Landscape Company Services Offered

Landscape Design & Installation:

SLC provides complete landscape design and installation of plant material as well as various hardscapes and water features.  Our design consultant has more than fifteen years of experience and extensive knowledge of plant material hardy to this region.  All landscape designs are custom-tailored by taking into consideration client expectations, site evaluation and budget limitations.  After a design is chosen, SLC professionally installs all material to design specifications.  Furthermore, we offer guarantees on all plant material purchased from and installed by SLC.  Consider Specialized Landscape Company for your future landscape design and installation services.

Check out our Portfolio page to view photos from select design and install projects completed by Specialized Landscape Company.  For more information on our design services or to set up a consultation, please phone the office or e-mail Tony@specializedlandscape.com.  Remember, a professionally designed and installed landscape can add 15% or more to your overall property value.

 Plant Healthcare Programs:

SLC has developed complete turf and shrub treatment programs to protect and promote healthy plant life.  We strongly believe that healthy plants fight off disease, resist insects and choke out weeds.  SLC practices Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to reduce the amount of pesticides used on your landscape.  By evaluating and monitoring the landscape we can determine if there is a problem or if conditions favor a potential problem, and only treat on an “as needed” basis instead of using “blanket” applications.  These blanket applications are unfavorable because they could harm beneficial insects or stress healthy plants.  All SLC applicators are licensed and certified by the state to apply pesticides.  Applicators, by law, must attend regular seminars to remain certified and stay current on the latest developments in the Green Industry.  For specific details on treatments, the products we use, or to set up a healthcare program for your landscape give us a call or e-mail Chris@specializedlandscape.com.

 Landscape Management:

Not only does SLC install and treat your landscape, but we can help you manage your landscape’s growth to see its full potential and realize the maximum return on your investment.  Our landscape management practices include the following services:

• Edging Landscaped Beds: reduces the chance of unwanted weeds and grasses from spreading into mulched areas.  It produces a distinctive edge separating turf from landscaped beds, creating a well-defined border.  Edges are skillfully cut into soil by straight-edge shovel.  The waste produced from this procedure is collected and removed.
• Mulch Installation: SLC carries and installs an array of premium mulches, giving clients multiple choices to customize their landscape. 
• Shrub & Small Tree Pruning: all pruning is performed at appropriate times during the growing season.  Proper frequency of pruning promotes dense, healthy growth and reduces plant shock associated with heavy pruning, creating a well-manicured landscape.  Plant material is trimmed with skill and precision to desired shape and accumulated debris is removed from the property.
• Weed Removal from Landscape Beds: to minimize the client’s cost, SLC applies a non-selective herbicide directly to the weeds, ensuring complete elimination of existing weeds, therefore reducing the labor time spent hand-pulling.  However, hand-pulling is still preferred when weeds are growing near plants and it is not safe to spray because of possible drift.
• Seasonal Color Installation:  SLC offers a wide variety of seasonal bedding plants to provide year round color in landscaped beds and ornamental containers, such as window boxes, urns, etc.  Clients may choose a year-round program or flower plantings for a specific season(s).
• Premium Turf Mowing: all mowing is performed with “commercial” rotary mowers; blades are changed and sharpened regularly to provide greener appearance and to lessen the probability of fungal disease.  SLC operators are trained to mow in directional patterns, creating a professionally striped look.  Patterns are periodically changed to reduce the risk of soil compaction and rutting.  Clippings are not generally caught so nutrients may be recycled to promote thick, healthy turf, thus reducing the development of broadleaf weeds.  Necessary precautions are taken by operators to avoid clipping dispersal into mulched areas.  After mowing, operators use string-trimmers to vertically edge hard surfaces (i.e. curbs, sidewalks, etc.) and landscape beds to produce a distinctive edge.  Trimming around structures and other turf areas, also cut by a string-trimmer, is done at the same cutting height as the mowing equipment to eliminate scalping.  Finally, all debris by mowing and trimming operation is blown off sidewalks, driveways, patios, porches, decks, steps and other paved surfaces.
• Leaf Removal: during periods of light leaf coverage, the leaves are mulched to replenish nutrients back into the soil.  Heavy leaf coverage is completely removed to prevent smothering the turf.  Leaves are thoroughly collected from entire property by hand raking, blowers, vacuums and other turf equipment.  All waste material is bulk-loaded onto trucks and removed from the property.
• Power Seeding: used to seed existing turf areas or in complete turf renovation.  This process begins with mowing the turf to a lower height (approximately 1”). Then SLC uses a machine that drops seed, slices it into the soil and brushes the cut soil over the seed, allowing for excellent seed to soil contact.  When over-seeding existing turf, operators apply this process in two different directional patterns to ensure proper rate and distribution.  A thin layer of thatch, generated by the seeding machine, remains to help create a good environment for the new seed to germinate and establish.  Finally, a starter fertilizer is applied to give sufficient nutrients to the germinating seed as it sprouts and begins to take root.
• Complete Turf Renovation: existing turf and weeds are eliminated using a non-selective herbicide.  Once all turf and weeds have effectively been eliminated, power seeding as explained above, is performed.  However, in complete renovation, three to four different directional patterns are used to promote quick, dense coverage of the bare lawn.
• Drop Seeding: the turf seed is applied by broadcast, drop or hand-held spreader.  This is performed after aerating or when fresh soil is laid.  In cases of fresh or bare soil, SLC applies a seed starter mulch to create a good environment for seed germination.  This mulch product is preferred over straw because it does not contain any weed seeds and retains more moisture.
• Aerification: reduces surface soil compaction by using an aerating machine to core 2”-3” deep plugs of soil throughout the turf.  This allows air, water and fertilizer to penetrate deep in the soil to the grass root system providing for a plush, green lawn.  The extracted soil plugs help reduce harmful thatch by accelerating the natural decomposition of dead organic matter accumulated on the soil surface.  After aerating is a great time to fertilize and/or drop seed.
• Dethatching: reduces the dense organic layer of both dead and living shoots, stems and roots accumulated at the soil surface.  This thatch is removed to improve air and water movement into the soil and prevent a favorable environment for harmful insects and diseases.  This service involves the use of a dethatching machine, which breaks up accumulated thatch and rakes it on top of the turf.  The thatch is thereafter removed by collection systems attached to mowers or by hand raking and bagging.

 Specialized Landscape Company can perform all the necessary maintenance services needed to effectively manage your landscape and keep it looking amazing throughout every season.  Contact us today and we will help you develop a customized landscape management program.