Services

Design & Consultation

Gardens change through the seasons and through the years. It takes knowledge and sensitivity to plan an artful, thriving garden that accounts for soil, micro-climates, variety, growth rates, watering needs, and wildlife. Berkeley Gardens brings horticultural knowledge based on years of caring for hundreds of gardens. We bring a varied and nuanced plant palette, and a collaborative design process to create a garden especially for you.

Our designs may renovate an existing garden or plan a new one. We use sustainable principles in our garden designs, and follow a seasonal calendar for planting projects. Our consultation services advise on reducing maintenance, sustainable practices, pruning, design, or garden rejuvenation.

Maintenance Care

In the most interesting gardens, the features of the garden change throughout the seasons and over the years, and each incarnation of a garden is enhanced by thoughtful, ongoing care. Ongoing professional maintenance of a garden allows for more interesting plant choices and the beautiful unfolding of a garden over time, tending to design considerations, health issues, and other needs as they arise.

Berkeley Gardens brings experience and professionalism to give you a garden you love. Together with you, we create a plan for your garden that addresses its long-term development according to your tastes and preferences. We tend to the details that bring you joy.

Garden Rejuvenation

Many gardens would benefit from occasional expert rejuvenation, especially if they do not receive more regular professional care. Often, the excitement of the initial unfolding of a garden gets obscured as maintenance needs increase and the garden becomes untended or overgrown.

Berkeley Gardens delights in uncovering the beauty of your garden during periodic or quarterly rejuvenation visits. We focus on major pruning and aesthetic shaping of trees and shrubs, as needed. During a rejuvenation visit, overgrowth and inattention can seemingly miraculously be transformed into sculptured elegance- restoring structure and revealing a sense of space.

Schedule these visits to address seasonal irrigation adjustments; mulching and soil fertility; keeping fruit trees small and manageable; annual clearing and hauling; or tending perennial flower beds. In fall through early spring, a rejuvenation visit can also combine with our design and planting services to address plant replacement or to revitalize plant beds with thoughtful new additions.