Since we want our trees, shrubs, and perennial flowers to be healthy when they enter your landscape beds...

1. All our flowering trees and shrubs as well as evergreens that benefit from preventative insect and disease treatments will receive these dormant sprays on our lot before they are delivered.
2. Other insect and disease problems that arise during the season we try to treat at the most appropriate time to have the maximum results for the plant.
3. We try to make sure our container shrubs have been carefully potted up into larger containers as they have grown.

Because New Vistas Landscaping wants our trees, shrubs and perennials flowers to remain healthy on your site...

1. All trees, shrubs and perennials will have peat or mushroom compost mixed in with the backfill at planting time. Groundcover and annual beds will receive 1" of compost topping over their beds before planting.
2. Each plant, large or small, will be fed with root stimulator or blossom booster during planting.
3. All plants that benefit from special additives to lower or raise the ph of the soil at the time of planting will be given these mineral enrichments.

To make your new landscaping easier to take care of...

1. New Vistas often uses a weed barrier fabric on landscape beds where shrubs and trees are planted. Weed X is a composite material with three layers bonded together to work at preventing weeds from rooting through from the top or growing through from the bottom.
2. Perennial plantings, on the other hand seem to perform best without a barrier fabric, allowing plants to broaden their clump size without being choked by weed barrier or being forced to root in the mulch on top on the barrier.
3. Our black diamond professional grade vinyl edging has one of the highest ratings of UV light stability for long lasting performance. It has a v-groove that is staked in place to avoid heaving with the freezing and thawing of ground in the winter, and connectors that help to prevent ends from moving apart.
4. When wood mulch is desired, New Vistas uses a professional weight of cypress mulch because it is the longest lasting of all wood mulches which is especially important when it is applied over a weed fabric where the client does not want a fast decomposing material accumulating.
5. Shrubs and trees receive a 3" deep covering of cypress (except right up near the bark at the base where the mulch should not touch to allow the bark to breath). Perennials are given a 2" covering. 1" is usually best on annual and groundcover beds.
6. Trees out in the lawn which do not have circles of edging around them do well with a bulk much put down 3" deep in 5' or 8' diameter circles depending on the ball size of the tree at planting time or the spread of the evergreen trees' lower branches.
7. Since a tree develops stronger roots when it is not staked, only those trees that shift after planting, e.g. from a strong windstorm, and need this support, will be staked. (When trees are dug with big enough root balls, they rarely need staking.)
8. Plant care instructions are given to customer during the "walk through" of the landscaping job following completion. Tips are given on watering, trimming, care of blossoms, and possible disease or insect problems to watch out for as well as how to treat them.