The Frog's Friend Gardener

Friendly, expert service in restoration, fruit and vegetable gardens, tidy-up and garden design. Helping sustain biodiversity in your own backyard! Beautification: - Building layered flowering and green seam gardens for bloom and contrast throughout the year. - Hanging gardens for steep slopes (wired and anchored in). - Hardscapes for design, water retention or diversion, and access through the space. Micro-restoration: - Removing invasive plants - without chemicals - by the roots! - Establishing permaculture areas with native plants: low / no maintenance, high natural value and beauty. - Introducing plants most desired by butterflies, hummingbirds, frogs and salamanders. * specializing in properties that border green spaces or ravines. Fruit and Vegetable Gardens: - Choosing prolific berry bushes,vines and fruit trees for a changing climate. - Building rain-capture container gardens, box gardens and ground-level beds. - Making kitchen herb gardens robust and accessible. - Compact crops: cucumber trellises, strawberry steps, raspberry fences, terraced beds on hillsides. Tidy-Up: - Edging - Green waste removal - Weeding and deadheading; general maintenance Pruning: - spring, summer and fall flowering shrubs Fruit trees: - Pruning (while dormant or in summer, depending) - Spraying (dormant oil at the end of winter, and using hydrogen peroxide for insects after fruit is set) Recommending and installing: * rock, beam and plant borders * new contours and levels * natural soil amenders to maximize the green and blossoming! Inquiries welcome, free initial consultation! Hourly Rate: $25 Project rates: quotable Materials and new plants provided at cost + $5 fuel surcharge for deliveries. 20 years of experience in permaculture, organic gardening, landscaping and restoration. Satisfaction guaranteed.