Plant Inventories

Do you know whats in YOUR landscape? The purpose of a plant inventory is to identify all of the plants in your landscape, whether it be a tree, shrub, or perennial. After all, one cannot possible give the proper care to a plant without knowing what it is. Knowing your plants is critical to diagnosing disease and pest infestation as well.

If you have just moved into a new house and are not familiar with the plants in your landscape, Healthy Landscapes offers plant inventory services. The product we produce is dependent on how large your landscape is and how many plants there are. If the landscpe is overgrown with weeds and/or dead shrubs/trees, if there is debri, or other plants are a nuisance, we need to remove those items so that we can properly identify the remaining plants.

Once the plants are indentified, the information is entered into a custom database. The actual printed report will not indicate the common and scientific name of the plant, but also how many of them and their bloom time. The specific, seasonal care of each plant as well as what diseases and insects to monitor for are also communicated.

Call Healthy Landscapes if you think you have been exposed to Poison Ivy. This pretty plant is in more places than one might think. Birds eat the berries from the poison ivy plant and transfer the undigested seeds in their feces. Poison Ivy is no longer limited to the edges of tree stands and forests. I have found it under shubs and in tree rings of stand alone trees in suburban condominium complexes. It is also delivered to peoples landscapes in nursery stock if it is not purchased from a reputable establishment. Many landscapers who shear shrubs don't know how they get poison ivy, when all along it was vining inside the landscape shrub they were shearing.