Our Services
philosophy
Our approach is to cater our services to meet your needs. While we can provide complete garden design, installation, and regular maintenance, we can also just help you plant your annuals or vegetable garden, weed a stubborn area, or pot up a few interesting containers for your patio. Our goal is that through our services we can help to ensure that you enjoy your gardens and that they will thrive both today and as they grow and mature into the future.
“There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it’s too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it’s too late.”
cape cod climate
Gardening on Cape Cod is a wonderful privilege. We enjoy a unique microclimate created by the Gulf Stream which makes temperatures warmer here than the rest of New England, with smaller sub-climates depending on whether your home is located near the ocean or inland. This allows us to utilize some plants which would not typically survive in our hardiness zone such as figs, camellias, and crape myrtle. Soil conditions also vary—from lines of heavy clay to sandy, porous soil that tends to be acidic. Embracing this diversity is what we're all about, working with nature by amending the soil with organic matter, utilizing native plants when appropriate, and celebrating the beautiful mix of plants and wildlife we're so lucky to live with!
services
• Garden Design - client consultation, site inspection, design plan and plant specifications
• Garden Renovation - renovation or restoration of garden beds, plant replacement, pruning
• Seasonal Maintenance - Initial spring clean-up and garden winterizing in late fall, seasonal annual plantings and perennial care (deadheading, staking, plant division), composting and fertilizing, weeding, pruning, disease and pest management
• Specialty Gardens - Vegetable garden installation and maintenance, herb gardens, shade gardens, cutting gardens
• Container Planting - Patio and landscape planter design and maintenance, window boxes, holiday greenery
schedule a consultation
Whether you require a single clean-up in the spring or fall or ongoing weekly seasonal maintenance, Sparrow Gardens can work with you to devise a maintenance schedule which fits your needs and your budget. Contact us to schedule a consultation and let us help you create the gardens you envision.
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”