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The Garden Crew At Scenic Nursery

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Presenting a unique service from Scenic Nursery, we can help you accomplish those gardening chores your regular lawn maintenance serivce won’t or can’t get done. Whether your lawn service is a professional company, a teenager, or just you and your spouse, it is often difficult to do natural style pruning, weed control, proper flower bed development, or even fertilize at the right times

That’s where the Garden Crew comes in. We can do all those things for you. Have us come down just once as part of a “Garden Refurbishment”, to get everything under control, so you can take over. Or we can schedule on a seasonal basis, so your garden is always pruned, fertilized, and blooming. We provide a professional consultation before each visit plus an expert crew that’s dedicated to getting the job done right.

Call us today to schedule an appointment at 209.523.2847

The Garden Crew at Scenic Nursery
1313 Scenic Drive
Modesto, CA 95355

 

What We Do


Natural Pruning

Unlike other services that specialize in just lawn care, we know how to prune each plant to bring out it’s natural beauty. We create a more natural effect by selectively pruning branches. Natural pruning also allows the plants to flower at their peak, and is an easier way to maintain the plants, making your job easier once we’ve left.

Fertilizing

A good fertilizer can make all the difference between a struggling garden, and one that really shines. As part of our service, our garden experts will diagnose and identify any nutrient deficiencies in your garden.

Weed Control

Weeds are every home-owner’s enemy. Don’t live with them! An effective weed control regimen can reduce or eliminate most of your weed problems.

Flower Beds

Designing an eye-catching flower bed can be harder than it seems. Our consulant will design and the Garden Crew will install your annual and perennial flower beds for you.

 

Our Services


Garden Refurbishment

Does your garden need a make-over, but not an entire re-design? Does it just lack “ooomf”? A Garden Refurbishment is what you need! Our crew will freshen up and fill in the shrub and flower beds, and put a fresh face on your home.

Seasonal Maintenace

Don’t want to do any of the dirty work? Scenic Nursery’s Garden Crew can do all the seasonal maintenance for you, so your garden is always pruned, fertilized and blooming.

Problem Solving

Do you have a special situation you just don’t know how to fix? Whether its drainage, lawn problems, or just too much shade, solving these problems is our specialty. Let the Garden Crew handle all the dirty work!

Special Events

If you have a special event coming up, and your garden needs to be in top shape, let our experts take care of everything! We can make sure everything is healthy and growing, and can even give you special tips on how to make sure everything is blooming for the special day!

 

What Our Clients Say


About our Refurbishment Service:

“We love it!! Many thanks to the wonderful talents of the Garden Crew. They all did an awesome job.”

“Your Garden Crew is terrific; everything I hope for and expected and more. They arrived promptly, worked super efficiently, and carried out the plan and all is well.”

“One crew leader particularly went out of his way to find the plants I had specified, suggesting substitutions when appropriate, and made every effort to make things look good. I am sure everything will thrive. Be assured your Garden Crew is at the top if my list, along with Scenic Nursery.”

“Your Garden Crew gets an AAA rating for their work.”

“We thank you for the many hours of planning and for the refurbishment of our pond area. We are so pleased with the results.”

About our Maintenance Service:

“Thank you for the great job pruning. We certainly hope to have you back again.”

“On November 14th, the Scenic Nursery Garden Crew came to my home to clean my backyard flower beds, and help establish orderly garden borders. It is work I am no longer able to do because of physical disabilities. Your crew did thorough aand neat job for me. I am not only pleased with how my yard now looks, but also with the efficient and thorough way it was accomplished. Their friendly, polite and helpful attitude was another important plus for me. I would not hesitate to recommend the Garden Crew to anyone. I look forwrd to having them come back to do more work in my garden next spring.”

“Please convey to the Crew a hearty thank you for clearing out my backyard jungle. It is a great pleaseure to look out the window and see my roses.”

About our Special Event Preparation:

“It couldn’t have been done without you! The end result was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for you attention to detail.”
(Outdoor Wedding Preparation)



Feb 09 2007
A Small Backyard Print E-mail
Written by Jungle Jim   
Thursday, 08 February 2007
Donna and I have been working on our yard and our first major project was to redo our small back yard. It is small, dominated by a giant sycamore and generally un usable. The Garden Crew has been working on putting in a paver patio shaped by a stacking block planter.

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Dec 06 2006
A New Project Print E-mail
Written by Jungle Jim   
Tuesday, 05 December 2006
Rod's crew of the Garden Crew has been busy working on this project. It includes a 14' drive, a back patio and walkways using CalStone Quarry Stone pavers. The drive is set on 8" of compacted road base. The patio and walk on 6" of base.

Project Beginning

The house under construction

 

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Aug 26 2006
Garden "B" Project Print E-mail
Written by Jungle Jim   
Friday, 25 August 2006
This is a job we finished recently in August 2006. It was designed and installed by the Garden Crew. The need was to turn a yard into something they family could use. There was a slope down toward the house with rain and irrigation flooding to the house and into a low spot in the garden.

What we did is build a small wall and regrade the soil level behind it to control the drainage problem. we placed a Quarry Stone Paver patio from Cal Stone in front of the wall all the way to the house. We also built a walk to the front drive and then added plantings for more drama, color and to create some shade on the patio.

In the front we wanted to create a more dramatic entry that was compatable with the house. There was a substantial slope to the front so we put in 2 steps with a circular landing before going into an existing courtyard with a nice waterfall pond.

We also included a walk way to the street. Before you had to use the drive to get to the house and with two cars on the drive it was way too crowded.

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Feb 05 2008
Flag stone walkways Print E-mail
Written by Jungle Jim   
Tuesday, 05 February 2008

I often get requests to install flagstone walks and patios with ground cover or ground cover between the stepping stones. In Modesto I almost never see this successful. Most often I see the ground cover have problems and become overwhelmed by weeds. Especially by Oxalis, Annual Blue Grass and Spurge.

 My read is that in the sun and heat here the ground cover gets stressed and thins out. This allows  the weeds room to come in.

 I have been using extra large stepping stones, up to 3x4' pieces, with 4-6" spaces between the stepping stones. I have a successful design that has gone through a full summer. The lawn has done well and so Donna and I are trying it at home. This is in an area where eventually we intend to place pavers for a walk way. In the mean time we are using these flagstone pieces as a walk way to our front door.

 

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