It's been a long time since the extra land our Ajax homes sit on has been used for useful purposes like growing food or housing animals. Most people these days prefer their suburban yards to be either tasteful flower gardens or perfectly uniform lawns. There are very few people who can achieve this look themselves, so they turn to landscapers and lawn services companies to do it for them.
There's a major difference between a landscaper and a lawn service company, so you should figure out which one you're going to need before you go looking through the yellow pages. If what you want is a company to treat, mow, weed, or sod the lawn of your Markham, Ontario real estate, what you want is a lawn services company. There are some major lawn service company chains active all over North America, such as WeedMan, and there are usually at least a few locally owned outfits as well.
If what you need is someone to look after your entire yard, from mowing and treating the lawn to trimming your hedges, putting up retaining walls, planting and caring for flower beds, and maintaining lawn statuary or fountains, this is more the purview of a landscaping company. Landscapers are generally local firms that work only with Thornhill real estate much like a law firm or a dentistry practice, there are few national chains. You can usually find a good company by looking for a well-maintained outdoor area and asking the owners who looks after it for them.
There is actually a third run on the lawn care ladder, and that is the landscape architect. Landscape architects sometimes work for landscape companies but more often are independent contractors who consult with the developers of Brampton homes for sale and then hire out the labor. What a landscape architect does is design the space - planning out walkways, flower beds, colors, and arrangements of foliage that are pleasing to the eye and appropriate for the climate. The famous American designer of public parks, Frederick Law Olmstead, was a landscape architect.
So in terms of hierarchy, you would employ a landscape architect once when you're in the planning stages for your new Paris, Ontario real estate. You would then hire a landscape company to execute the architect's designs and pay them a retainer to continue to maintain the foliage and flowers. A lawn services company could mow and treat the grass for you in between the landscape companies "tune ups."
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