Landscape Assessment and Manual

Your landscaping might be one of the more valuable aspects of your home. It is a living asset that requires proper care. Turfgrass and soil management, proper pruning techniques, weed control, mulching, pest management, fertilization, and adequate irrigation all ensure your landscape thrives. It takes a team.

Landscape gardeners and crews are valuable in providing some of this care. But often, as a homeowner or Estate Manager, you must figure out when, how, and whether the landscape details have been handled. 

In addition to proper maintenance and documentation, there’s often a layer of missed design aesthetics. The original intent is usually lost with too-high hedges (or worse, shrubs trimmed into balls) and mismatched seasonal colors that don’t flow with the next season's flowering shrubs.

Irrigation Zoning Map

It's time to bring in the professionals. Kelly Dixon’s unique blend of experience—a landscape architecture degree, a former California landscape contractor license, and over 30 years of award-winning residential landscape design, construction, and maintenance management, paired with her private service experience—will instill confidence that each aspect of your landscaping maintenance is professionally managed. 

Hire Kelly for an initial assessment, action plan, and landscape manual development.
She will track all the details, ensuring you have the knowledge and documentation
to protect your investment even when staff are on vacation or transitioning to other
roles.

In addition to your softscape, she’ll include information about caring for your water
and fire features and outdoor furnishings. Her action plan is your roadmap to
continued maintenance success in improving your landscape’s health and outdoor living
assets while maintaining the original design intent.

Kelly will:

  • Meet with you for an initial consultation to collect information and complete a property walk-through

  • Interview your landscape designer and maintenance professionals

  • Create an Assessment Report with top priorities and initiatives

  • Develop a 12-month maintenance schedule with daily, weekly, monthly,
    and seasonal care 

  • Complete an irrigation zoning map and timing spreadsheet

  • Prepare plant cut sheets with the watering, fertilization, pest
    management, owner and color preferences, and pruning schedule
    for every plant type

  • Produce a custom notebook and paper manual, and a digital
    Trello Board that can be shared with your staff with details and
    schedules

In addition to her fees, you’ll need:

  • A landscape or site plan. Once Kelly receives your information, she’ll
    provide a quote to update it with as-built site information. If you don’t
    have a plan, her quote will include this.

  • An annual arborist’s report and soil testing. These can be included as a part of her work.

  • To budget for travel expenses if your location is outside of the Los Angeles area.

Notebook with Landscape Manual on the cover