Garden Design, Install & Maintenance
Creating a beautiful garden in the Colorado Rockies is challenging due to a very dry, short, growing season, and low temperatures. At Mountain Roots, we strive to create and care for unique, natural, and sustainable high- altitude perennial and annual gardens in Summit County. We have a passion to ensure that the plants, products, and practices we use have minimal effects on the environment. We want a greener and safer future for generations to come.
Simple
- 2-D Image Design photo
- Plant Palette with recommended plant varieties
- Maintenance recommendations including soils, fertilizes, or special tips
- Great for new smaller areas, remodeled beds, or additions to existing areas.
Complex
- Site consultation
- Full Landscape layout plan and details (Conceptual, Preliminary, and Master Plan recommended)
- Planting Palette and Plans including maintenance recommendations
- 2D and 3D images available
Install
After your design is complete, we will help coordinate the installation process
Full Landscape
- Spring and Fall cleanups
- Weekly, biweekly, or monthly visits
- Mowing, trimming, pruning, weed control
- Planting of annuals, perennials, small trees and shrubs
- Container and bed fertilizing, deadheading, staking, etc…
- Soil amending with locally made compost
Garden Only
- Focus your budget on creating and caring for colorful garden beds and let the natural area stay natural! Works great in our mountain environment.
- Spring and fall cleanups including cutbacks and debris removal in beds
- Weekly, biweekly, or monthly visits
- Container and Vegetable gardens
- Bed fill in- after evaluating your beds we make recommendations for adding seeds, perennials, annuals, bulbs, trees, and shrubs.
- Fertilizing, deadheading, staking, etc…
- Soil amending with locally made compost
Lawn
- Biweekly mowing schedule May 25 – August 30
- 8 Total Mows per season
- Spring Cleanup in May or June- Raking of lawn to aerate and remove old, dead grass and debris, light pruning, hand weeding of noxious weeds
- Noxious weed treatment in Lawn
- Fall Cleanup in October- Weed removal, light pruning, weeding, leaf and debris removal
- Compost amendment of beds and lawn for nutrients and organic feeding
