General Pruning

The frequency of our visits will depend on a client's desire for a well-maintained garden. Our team will ideally visit once or twice per year to maintain a garden’s integrity. Some clients are even on a two-year cycle if a more “woolly” look is preferred. Roses, however, require more frequent pruning.

Artistic Pruning

Artistic pruning is about transferring a design into a living plant, shrub or tree. It is like sculpture or architecture with growing, natural elements. A pruned espalier can be an artistic form framed by a wall. A pollarded tree can be like sculpture in front of a house. A pleached hedge can function as decorative framework. Add a topiary to the evergreen collection and it becomes an attractive element that, even in winter, adds interest to your garden. Ask us about these artistic techniques. We are happy to provide you with ideas, or to help you realize your own ideas and fantasies.

For Health & Visual Appeal

We lady clip or saw, lop or snip. But not before we look. And look again. Because every site perspective is unique; plant species vary; young plantings differ from older specimens; the time of year matters too. Lady Clippers will carefully prune for natural aesthetics, prune for health, prune for maximum fruit and flower production. Our approach targets an end-goal of landscape beauty with environmental sustainability.

Garden Shrubs, Roses & Small Trees

For all your plantings...Boxwood, rhododendrons, azaleas, hydrangeas, conifers and evergreens. Deciduous shrubs of all kinds. Small trees (ornamental and fruiting…but don’t ask us to climb more than 5 feet off terra firma). Roses, oh yes, roses: hybrid teas, floribunda, shrub and climbing roses with scratches to prove it. We are completely sustainable and organic, using only hand tools and recycling all the clippings.

Does your garden need a major renovation or a little sprucing up?  We're equally at home in both, or somewhere in between.