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HORTICULTURE & FINE GARDENING

Beautiful gardens are the direct result of a well-executed plan. Parterre combines horticultural expertise with precise operational efficiency to bring out the best in your garden, all year round. Our fine gardening services include:

  • Annual & Perennial Care

    Annual & Perennial Care

    Our services cover everything from seasonal floral planning to planting, deadheading, fertilization and routine weekly care. We aim for sustained seasonal interest that delights the eye with a succession of fresh flowers from April through October. Our gardeners will work with you to arrive at a planting plan that reflects your tastes in color and texture, is appropriate to your environment, and remains consistent with your overall landscape design.

  • Structural & Aesthetic Pruning

    Structural & Aesthetic Pruning

    Science and art come together in a pruning approach that is attentive to both optimal plant health and aesthetic satisfaction. Parterres horticulturists are trained – and continuously updated in their training at our annual Spring Pruning Tutorial held in Lexington – to prune with an eye toward three simultaneous goals: peak plant health, natural beauty consistent with your plants’ inherent virtues, and a design intent sensitive to location. Our clients typically see dramatic improvements in plant health and beauty within just three years of careful pruning.

  • Garden Restoration

    Garden Restoration

    You may have bought a new home and found a garden with great “bones” that needs renewed care to reach its full potential. We do all the ground work to bring gardens back to life: pruning and fertilizing, dividing and moving plants, correcting dominance and/or overgrowth. We consistently seek opportunities for improvement. When we replace empty mulch patches and other bare spots with new plantings, you substitute a recurring maintenance expense with a much more rewarding (and often less costly) investment in fresh beauty.

  • Terrace & Container Planting

    Terrace & Container Planting

    For decorative landscape touches or in tight urban spaces, containers offer garden delights that can be mixed and matched at will. We can bring additional beauty to your garden – or simply bring the garden itself to you. Containers give you a chance to experiment with plants and colors without making lasting commitments. Parterre can accessorize any garden or landscape with new colors, special treatments, or party-theme plantings we deliver and set up for you.

  • Seasonal & Holiday Decor

    Seasonal & Holiday Decor

    Every holiday can be accented with thematic containers; every garden can be enriched with displays that honor specific seasons. In March, for example, our temporary plantings contribute pre-season color while you wait for your garden to bloom; for the fall, we can bring gourds, pumpkins, and other attractions; in the winter, an entirely different set of containers adds seasonally appropriate visual interest. For the biggest holidays, such as Christmas and New Years, Parterre will design, transport and install all the decorative elements you need for festive celebrations.

  • Spring & Fall Cleanup

    Spring & Fall Cleanup

    We use the shoulder seasons as a time to prepare your garden for the rigors of winter, and ready it for optimal growth in the summer. Specifically, we:

    • Cut back perennials (in the spring, everything that remained over the winter; in the fall, everything except what remains for winter interest)
    • Remove debris: leaves, fallen branches, windblown matter, etc.
    • Apply organic fertilizer to perennials, shrubs, woody ornamentals and bulbs
    • Water newly planted evergreens, shrubs and perennials
    • In the spring, structural, pre-leaf pruning
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Landscape Architecture & Installation

Crafting an environment requires a diversity of skill. For “softscape” (plantings, beds, screens, vegetable gardens, etc.) and “hardscape” (terraces, driveways, walkways, water features, etc.) Parterre offers comprehensive design, installation, construction and general contracting services.

When acting as your general contractor Parterre solicits bids from within its network of trusted third-party contractors, makes recommendations as part of a transparent review, then manages the process from design through completed construction.

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Ecological Land Management

Parterre Ecological Land Management integrates the principles of ecology and horticulture to restore, promote, and protect native plant communities within our public and private habitats, and in sensitive or otherwise specially regulated areas.

We can help you with the planning, permitting, implementation and maintenance of a wide range of ecological restoration projects, including removal of invasive species. For more information, or to schedule an appointment with our Ecological Land Management team, click the Contact link below.

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