Landscape Design and Horticulture - Contact Your Nearest Arborist to Spruce Up Your Garden

Posted by Prince's Landscape Pte Ltd on November 2nd, 2022

Have you ever stopped to think how distant you have become from nature? How the distance between nature and you are impacting not just your physical health but also your mental well-being? With landscape design and horticulture professionals, you can choose to rekindle that touch.

Here you might be thinking, what is landscape design? Why would I need horticulture? I can just plant a few trees on the roof. Or buy a few potted plants for the office or the living room. You can do that. But in our contemporary life where do, we have the time to sit and take care of our plants? How will you know which plant is best for you? Which ones are going to thrive in certain weather conditions? That's where horticulture professionals come in.

What is landscape design?

Horticulture is an academic discipline that has two branches - floriculture or flower arrangements, and landscape horticulture. Landscape design is an aesthetically pleasing branch of horticulture. That focuses on planting decorative and ornamental plants. For the sole purpose of beautifying the surroundings. With the help of the knowledge of horticulture, landscape designers can create a natural scene with the best plant that suits your needs and specifications.

Who is an arborist?

Arboriculture is an essential part of landscape design. They are often also called tree surgeons as a large chunk of their responsibilities includes diagnosing trees, shrubs, and any other woody plants. Along with diagnosing, the arborist spends years perfecting their knowledge and craft of understanding planning and maintaining shrubs, and trees.

In maintaining landscape design and horticulture an arborist will play a major role. They will guide you on how to take care of your specialised and personalised Bonsai or Balinese gardens daily. Most landscape designers also provide maintenance services which will most definitely include an arborist.

3 Unique Services Arboriculturist can Offer You

• Soil Analysis - Your arborist will conduct a soil test for your landscape. Only then you will know what type of soil you will need for the kind of trees or plants you want in your garden. It will also help you to develop a plan for the type of nutrients you need for said plants.
• Visual Tree Assessment - Effective VTA can protect your trees from air, sound, and soil pollution. Various stressors, soil erosion, malnutrition, and other diagnostic issues. This process mainly finds out the external representation of any internal problem in the plants or trees.
• Root Exploratory Assessment - Just like an effective VTA can identify the external representation of the problems, similarly REAs focuses on the problems in the roots of the tree. In landscape design and horticulture, an arborist can conduct this assessment using Air Spade and CA reports, and a Hydraulic penetrometer.

Landscape aesthetics are important. But maintaining the health of those trees is paramount. Otherwise, you will be bleeding money without ever knowing why. Nature is supposed to bring your calmness and peace, not stress.

Are you ready to find the best landscape design and horticulture service provider that can find you the best arborist in Singapore?