If you’re looking to have your garden redone, you’re likely looking to employ the services of someone to give you a hand with it. But you should be sure that you’re getting the right company for your needs, as gardening and landscaping are, in fact, two different services.
While many companies can offer both, it can still be useful to know the difference!
A gardener’s focus in a garden is usually the plant life. They tend the vegetable patch, flowerpots and lawn with weeding, watering, mowing, tidying and everything else necessary for keeping the plant life in your garden maintained. While a gardener may also help perform smaller maintenance tasks on the non-plant elements, such as mending a broken fence, most of their work will be kneeling down in the dirt with a watering can or trowel in hand. In a garden design company, a gardener will have a broad knowledge of different kinds of plants and their needs, helping to tailor the plant selection for a particular garden, and ensuring that both the client’s desires and the garden’s capabilities are reconciled. When getting a company to help redesign your garden, a gardener is likely to have less of a job during the installation stage but will probably be the friendly face you see should you return to that company for maintenance services.
Meanwhile, a landscaper focuses on the other features of a garden, such as patios, fences, pathways, water features and more. If you need something built in your garden, rather than planted, a landscaper is going to be the one to do it. A landscaper can also help with the plants part of your garden, but their focus is to lay down the new turf or build the raised bed for vegetables. They will have a larger part of the initial process of your garden redesign, but as their focuses require less maintenance, they may be less involved later on. They are very hands-on during the design process, as their particular tasks require taking measurements, considering budgets, choosing materials, planning transport and a lot of other work.
