Would You Like This In Your Backyard?

Turn your backyard into a sanctuary with a custom built water feature, stocked with fish, gazebo and landscaping.  Check out the photos below for an example of what can be done:

Call Bruce Cumming Landscaping and we can discuss creating a custom sanctuary like this in your yard - (978) 458-2145

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Spring Clean Up Services! (978) 458-2145

Spring is an important time for landscapes - plants and trees are preparing to come alive and many beds need to be replenished and nourished. Spring clean ups include deadheading flowers, pruning trees and shrubs, fertilizing, and applying fresh mulch. During this initial clean up phase, the experts at Cumming Landscaping can address potential problems, providing a beautiful and functional outdoor living space for the duration of the warm weather months.

Cumming Landscaping offers seasonal maintenance packages which include more thorough treatments to prepare your landscape features for summer or winter conditions. Spring clean ups include deadheading flowers, pruning trees and shrubs, fertilizing and applying fresh mulch. Fall clean ups include leaf removal, heavy pruning of trees and shrubs, thinning of trees and removal of overgrowth inside of trees.

Cumming Landscaping also offers maintenance plans include regular grass mowing, trimming and weed whacking, edging, and blowing off all hard surfaces so that clients are left with a pristine looking manicured lawn each week.

Call us today at 978-458-2145, if you are looking for maintenance plans such as lawn services, tree and shrub care, spring landscape maintenance and plantings. We can turn your dreams into reality.

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Job Posting: Experienced Landscaper

Bruce Cumming Landscaping is looking to hire an experienced landscaper with Bobcat experience.  Please call (978) 458-2145

 for more information.

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The Best Time To Think About Landscape Improvements

Here in the northeast in January, landscaping might not be top-of-mind but it's actually a great time to start thinking about landscape improvements for next year for your home or business.  Here are some expert tips and things to consider:

Planning

• It's a great time to make an appointment with a landscape professional at Cumming Landscaping as we are typically less rushed this time of year and can help you plan out the improvements to your landscaping.
• Gardening catalogs should have arrived by now. Start a list of items that you want to purchase for spring. This is also a good time to review pictures you have taken of your gardens during the past growing season. You can see what you might need to add to your gardens and yard.

Shrubs and Trees 

• As long as the ground is not frozen, you can plant trees and shrubs in your landscape. Be sure to mulch transplants and keep them well watered.
• Prune trees and shrubs that are dormant or rejuvenate overgrown shrubs by severely cutting them back. Keep in mind that if you prune spring flowering shrubs, like azaleas and forsythia, you are pruning off their spring flowers.
• Bring Witch Hazel branches indoors. The blossoms are very fragrant. Enjoy cut branches of beautyberry and winterberry holly with their colorful berries.

Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs
 
• Remove heavy layers of stray leaves that may have accumulated around perennials. They can mat down and smother perennials, and they promote rotting.
• Empty the soil from your container gardens. Add the soil to your garden beds or to the compost pile. Clean, sterilize, and store the pots. They will be ready for planting next year.
• Plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs in a shallow container of soil or gravel. They will bloom indoors during the winter months. They need no special cold treatment, only a steady supply of moisture. Keep the container in bright sunlight. You might have to stake or tie flowering stems upright if they grow too floppy. These delicate little flowers send out a fragrance that will permeate your home.    

Chores and Maintenance

• Continue to keep bird feeders full. Word will get around, and many visitors will come to call during the winter months if you provide a steady supply of suet and seed!
• From an environmental standpoint, spreading sawdust, sand, or cat litter is the best way to deal with icy sidewalks, steps and driveways. If you prefer to use a de-icer, try urea nitrogen fertilizer. It can burn plants if heavily concentrated, but used with restraint it actually helps fertilize grass and shrubs adjacent to treated areas.
• Drain your hoses and put them away so they don't freeze and burst.
• Clean and oil your garden tools for winter storage. Place some sand and oil in a large bucket, then slide your garden tools in and out of the sand. This will do an excellent job of cleaning them, as well as applying a light coat of oil that will prevent rusting.
• Winter is a good time to replace garden tools that have seen better days. Prices are generally lower this time of year.

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Fall Cleanup Services Merrimack Valley, Lowell, Westford, Billerica, Dracut, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough...

Call Bruce Cumming Landscaping
this fall!

Bruce Cumming Landscaping provides complete leaf clean up & leaf removal services for residential & commercial properties.

While the autumn in Massachusetts is by far one of the prettiest times of the year, it is always followed by the dreaded RAKING season.  Let Bruce Cumming Landscaping handle it this year.  With our top of the line equipment & trained professionals, we can complete your fall clean up duties much quicker so that you can enjoy the autumn season.  There is much more to fall cleanup than just raking the leaves.  There is a lot that can be done to prepare for the winter & the following spring now, to save time & money then.  Below is a brief bullet list of what we can do for your residence or commercial property this fall.

• Leaf Removal
• Last mowing of season
• Thatching
• Power raking
• Winterize garden beds
• Winterize trees and shrubs
• General yard clean up
• Prune any bushes that are required to be pruned during the autumn season

Call us at (978) 458-2145 or visit http://www.cumminglandscaping.com/ to schedule our services.

We service Merrimack Valley, Chelmsford, Lowell, Westford, Billerica, Dracut, Carlisle, Andover, Littleton, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Lawrence, Acton, Bedford, Concord, Wilmington, Groton & other surrounding areas of Massachusetts.

The Highest End of Landscaping Services

Creating the perfect outdoor atmosphere takes knowledge. And intuition. Because there’s more to grounds management than cutting grass. So there’s more to the team at Bruce Cumming Landscaping than the mower jockeys you’ll find elsewhere.

Led by Bruce himself, a 35-year veteran educated in Plant Science at State University of New York, Cobleskill, the professionals at Bruce Cumming Landscaping can provide a grounds management program that will elevate the beauty of your property. And your enjoyment of it.

We pay tribute to nature.  Then enhance it.  The elements of our work are the very elements of nature.  So every installation by Bruce Cumming Landscaping brings you closer to the world around you.

Explore our services and give us a call (978) 458-2145.

Shrub Trimming Merrimack Valley, Lowell, Westford, Billerica, Dracut, Tewksbury...

For the best shrub trimming services in Chelmsford MA, Tyngsborough, Lowell, Westford, Billierica, Dracut, Tewksbury and other Merrimack Valley towns please call (978) 458-2145 today.

Shrub trimming and pruning are essential for proper growth. Maintaining your shrubs will add to the design of your landscape. Proper trimming requires knowing when and how, to achieve the best results for your landscaping. Becoming familiar with your trees and shrubs will help you determine the proper shrub trimming time.

 

Scheduled Shrub Trimming

Regular trimming can make shrubs stronger during windy and stormy conditions. Without trimming, many shrubs can fall victim to disease and may suffer from crowding due to excess growth.

Most shrubs will display their appreciation for trimming with healthy balanced growth. Same is true of lawn mowing, the grass will return the favor.  Simply by removing dead branches or shoots, it is possible to stop the progress of disease that can kill the entire tree or shrub.

Many shrubs need a seasonal trim to look good for the following year. Untrimmed shrubs will leave a shaggy appearance. Eventually the overgrowth will flop over in wind and rain.

Shrub trimming all season long is best for reducing the size of overgrown trees and shrubs. Neglected bushes often require extensive trimming to make them attractive again. Hedges that are trimmed on a regular basis encourage a hearty structure. Hedges that have not been trimmed for a few seasons develop several problems. They grow too tall, have bare spots or lean into the yard.

When To Trim Shrubs

Spring indicates the beginning of the growing season for shrubs and trees. Spring trimming is performed prior to leaves and buds sprouting. It is an ideal time since no foliage is present, thus making the trimming of your trees and shrubs an easier process. Shrub trimming in the spring is the most important time for stimulating new branches and filling in the shape of your trees and shrubs.

Shrub trimming during the summer months, when growth is rampant, will prepare your trees and shrubs for the fall season. Summer is the time to make more significant cuts to your trees and shrubs. You will be able to identify how much vegetation has grown and remove the necessary foliage. If you are trying to remove unwanted growth with a one season trimming, summer is the time.

Fall is the time to prepare the shrubs for the winter and the next growing season.  This entails being more aggressive with bush trimming. Cutting down perennials is a good idea before they fall into a heap of brown foliage.