September 15, 2025

When you first buy a new property, especially one with great curb appeal, you might picture yourself outside for an hour or two each week, taking great care of your beautiful landscape with a rake and a mower. After a few weekends, you quickly realize that landscape maintenance is a lot of work. And many homeowners will tell you that as soon as you start to fall behind on maintenance due to a weekend away or rain on the days you have time for yard work, things can quickly get out of control. Then you realize that you have the equipment for the basics, but you also need more tools to keep up. And you need to invest more time. And then you hit your first fall clean up, and you realize that keeping up the curb appeal is much more time and effort than you thought. An all-inclusive landscape maintenance contract will handle everything for you, allowing you to enjoy your property and spend your free time relaxing.

Professional landscaper trimming shrubs with a hedge trimmer.

DIY Landscaping Takes Time from Your Weekends

You work hard for your home and your family. If you take on all your landscape maintenance on your own, you will quickly find that outdoor chores consume your weekends. These chores can be time-consuming, exhausting, and deeply cut into the time that you can spend with your family and friends. In fact, you may find that you need to spend so much time maintaining your property that you run out of time – or energy – to enjoy it. Not only that, but taking quality care of your property requires more than just a mower and a rake. Comprehensive landscaping involves a lot of equipment, as well as the expertise to use that equipment efficiently and effectively. While you can certainly do all your property maintenance yourself, you will be investing a significant amount of time, money, and effort for results that may not be of the same quality as those you would get from a professional landscape maintenance team.

Juggling Multiple Vendors Can Create Conflicts

You have someone to mow your lawn. You hired someone local to help keep up with the weeding. You have another company to handle snow removal in the winter. When it’s time for fertilizing, pest control, and irrigation issues, you find another vendor who can take care of the problem, but when you are trying to juggle so many pieces, things are bound to fall through the cracks, and you’ll wonder how things got so complicated. The reality is that landscape maintenance isn’t just weekly mowing. During the growing season, all-inclusive landscape maintenance includes mowing, edging, weeding, fertilizing, aerating, mulching, managing irrigation, pest control, and more. In the spring, you need to do a winter cleanup and make sure everything is healthy for the growing season. In the fall, you need to keep up with your regular maintenance, plus take on fall clean-up to prepare for the dormant season. Landscapers book up quickly when it comes to one-off customers. However, when you choose an all-inclusive year-round contract, you know that everything your yard needs can be taken care of exactly when it needs to be, and you won’t have to juggle different vendors.

All-Inclusive Landscaping Takes the Guesswork Out of Transitional Seasons

So much of a fall cleanup depends on the weather, and as anyone who has lived in this area for more than a year knows, the weather can be tricky. For the best results, you need to do your fertilizing and aerating at a certain point in the season, do your final mow at just the right time, know what must happen before the first hard freeze, and what can wait until after. But summer weather seems to be lasting, so you relax a bit, and then bam. A hard frost seemingly comes out of nowhere, and now you’re scrambling to make sure you’ve done everything you need to. When you have an all-inclusive landscape maintenance contract, you don’t need to worry about timing. Landscape professionals know how to “read” the weather, and they will make sure that everything will get done at the correct time for their full-year clients. They understand how to track weather patterns and look for clues beyond the five-day forecast, so your property will be taken care of exactly when it needs to be.

What is Included in All-Inclusive Landscape Maintenance?

If you go with an inexpensive mowing company, that’s all you’ll get. All-inclusive landscaping is all-inclusive, meaning that a professional landscape team will take care of everything your property needs. This includes:

  • Mowing, Edging, and Trimming
  • Pruning
  • Bed Maintenance
  • Mulching
  • Lawn and Plant Fertilizer
  • Irrigation Maintenance
  • Spring and Fall Clean-Ups
  • Landscape Lighting Maintenance
  • Drainage Evaluation and Services

When everything is taken care of by one provider, you can trust that they will get to know your property, and you will know that everything will be taken care of when it should be. Instead of spending all your free time maintaining your property, you get to enjoy it.

You invested in a beautiful home with great curb appeal so you could enjoy it, not spend every free moment working on the landscaping. You deserve to relax and enjoy your property with friends and family, trusting the professionals to keep it looking its best all year long. With an all-inclusive landscape maintenance contract, you can forget about the worry and stress that comes with the upkeep, and let the professionals make sure your yard reflects who you are.

Ready to enjoy your yard without the work? Contact Twin Oaks Landscape today to learn more about our all-inclusive maintenance plans and start reclaiming your weekends.