At the heart of your landscape is the care necessary to keep it beautiful. Royal Gardens provides weekly service to maintain or bring back the luster in your yard. Expert care throughout the growing season and in preparation for winter ensures that your lawn and garden will remain lush and beautiful all season long. Doesn’t your landscape deserve the Royal Gardens treatment?

Weekly mowing is performed on the same day each week weather permitting. Prior to cutting debris is picked up. After cutting, a power blower is used to clear away debris on paved surfaces, stoops, decks and patios. Depending on weather conditions, cutting height is adjusted from 2.5” to 3.5”. Our crew alters the mowing pattern each week to eliminate wear in any one direction. In the event of drought, other services are performed in lieu of mowing.

Edging of planting beds, paved surfaces and vertical surfaces is performed weekly or as needed with a string trimmer. Periodically throughout the season, your planting beds and tree rings will be edged using a spade shovel to create a distinct border between lawn and planting areas. This gives a clean, professional look and helps keep mulch in its place.

Shrub trimming and pruning is performed twice per season, depending on the plant variety. We cut only the current season’s growth. Reshaping or resizing of shrubs and hedges requires an additional quote.

Planting bed maintenance is performed as needed. This service includes a pre-emergent treatment, weed pulling of easily identified species and cutting back of perennials as they fade away in autumn.

Spring clean-up is typically included with our weekly service program in March/April, unless your property has specific concerns or conditions. We also offer spring clean-ups without a service agreement. For most properties this includes: Removal and disposal of all winter debris, cutting back of perennials and ornamental grasses, edging of all concrete surfaces and planting beds, cultivation of soil in unmulched planting beds and mowing of turf if needed.

Fall clean-up is included with our weekly service program through October and November. We also offer fall clean-ups without a service agreement. Annual plants are pulled, perennial plants are cut back, leaf debris is blown out of planting beds and disposed of and planting beds are spade edged. A final mowing of turf at 2.5” ensures a tidy appearance over the winter.

Your lawn requires constant care to keep it lush, healthy and weed free. With our 7-step program and proper watering habits, we guarantee you’ll love how thick and green your lawn will be. We use only professional grade granular, slow-release fertilizer and liquid broadleaf herbicide.

The first application we apply in spring is a fertilizer and crabgrass pre-emergent. This combination promotes an early green-up while preventing crabgrass and other unwanted seeds from germinating.

A thick, healthy lawn inhibits weed growth. Regular fertilizer and watering habits are the easiest way to achieve good health. Throughout the season, four more fertilizer treatments are applied to give your lawn a continuous feeding.

Twice per season a liquid herbicide is applied to your lawn. This kills most broadleaf weeds such as clover, dandelion, thistle, chick weed, plantain, creeping Charlie and spurge, to name a few. Spring weeds create seeds that begin a second cycle of weeds in summer.

Our grub prevention program is essential for any yard that has previously experienced a problem. Grubs are the larva of the June bug and exist in every yard. They typically eat the root system of a sunny, dry lawn, which can kill large areas rather quickly. It is more cost effective to prevent rather than repair their damage.

Core aeration is necessary for any lawn that is on heavy clay soil or is regularly compacted from heavy use or rain. Aeration helps reduce soil compaction and thatch buildup. After several services, your lawn should be able to go longer between waterings, look healthier and more vigorous and be easier to maintain. A strong, thick lawn also helps to prevent weed seeds from germinating. We offer both spring and fall services.

Annual or semi-annual aeration is recommended, especially if thatch buildup is present. While a thin layer of thatch is beneficial for your lawn, a layer of .5 inch or more will prevent light, air and water from reaching the turf’s root zone. A thick layer is also an invitation to harmful insects and disease organisms. Aeration is preferred over dethatching because dethatching damages healthy grass while removing thatch. The ‘plugs’ of soil that are left on top of your lawn will disappear back into the soil after a few rainfalls. The plugs also help break down thatch by mixing soil organisms into the thatch layer and speeding up decomposition.

In addition to the preventative grub control application that we provide, we can also treat other infestations. The products and timing of applications varies depending on the weather and insect we're trying to combat. If you're not sure what is chewing on your yard, call us so we can help you identify the pest and the solution.