From trimming your shrubs to designing your flower beds, landscaping requires a lot of thoughtful planning and arduous labor. Luckily, professional contractors can take these responsibilities off your plate and provide you with much more satisfying results. If you're not convinced, review some of the reasons it pays to hire an expert.

Why Should You Hire a Professional Landscaping Company?

1. Save Time

Landscape professionals go through years of training to hone their design, planting, maintenance, and restoration skills. To even scratch the surface of that knowledge and learn what you need to do to take care of your yard, you'd have to spend several weekends reading books or watching tutorials, and several more engaging in trial and error. When you hire a professional team to move a tree, prune your hedges, or construct a paved pathway, you can consolidate those weeks or months of work into mere hours.

2. Come Up With Creative Solutions

Perhaps you're looking for a way to enhance your privacy from the neighbors or build a garden that your dog can't damage. A landscaping crew can use their practical skills and design sensibilities to recommend a solution you might never have arrived at on your own, such as a fence made of ficus plants, or a terraced retaining wall garden. Whatever hasn't been working for your landscape, you can point it out to a professional and watch them put a creative spin on it.

3. Ensure the Health of Your Landscape

A professional landscaping contractor can ensure the design not only meets your aesthetic preferences but also serves as a functional, healthy part of the local ecosystem. For example, they can recommend plants that are native to the area, so typical rainfall patterns and temperatures work for your landscape. They can also ensure the lawn is graded correctly, so rain doesn't pool and drown sensitive plants. Finally, they can monitor your landscape for signs of disease, weeds, fungi, and pest infestations, while also removing plants that may be compromised.

 

If you’re looking for a landscaping team to provide these benefits, reach out to KPM Landscape of St. Charles, MO. For over 35 years, they’ve been catering to residential and commercial clients alike, providing the design, installation, and repair of landscaping, hardscaping, and water features. To learn more about their services, including irrigation and exterior lighting design, visit their website. You can also call (636) 699-5782 to schedule an appointment.