What is the difference between a gardener and a landscape gardener? | Victoria BC

If you don't spend a lot time or attention with landscapers, it's easy to confuse gardeners with landscape gardeners. In Victoria BC there are a lot more gardens in residential yards than you'll find in most other Canadian cities, so if you're looking for services to maintain or work on your garden in Victoria BC you might be wondering if you need a gardener or a landscape gardener to hire.

The easy answer: Both a gardener and a landscape gardener work on your garden, however a landscape gardener offers a lot more services than a gardener.

Such services that a landscape gardener offers that a mere gardener wouldn't typically offer are:

1. Tree care - Landscape gardeners have the equipment and skills to top and prune your trees, whereas a gardener might only work on ground-level plants.
2. Hard installations - While a gardener might only work on planting and caring for your garden, a garden landscaper can construct a garden from scratch with many extra features like landscape lighting, paved pathways, retaining walls, pergolas, etc.
3. Excavation - A gardener might not have an excavator or other heavy equipment involved in terracing your land. The closest thing a gardener might have to an excavator is a shovel! But a garden landscaper is basically a landscaper that is just working on your garden, so they bring with them all the heavy excavation tools that you would expect from a full-blown landscaping company.

There are many other services that garden landscapers provides that a gardener doesn't, but those three are the top that come to mind. To put all this in simpler terms, you would hire a gardener if all you wanted was someone to tend to your pre-installed garden, or to plant new flowers, bushes, etc., and to provide regular maintenance to your garden such as picking weeds and fertilizing the soil. A garden landscaper, on the other hand,  does a lot more than just tend to your garden - they can plant new trees, build rock walls, install water features like ponds and fountains, and a whole lot more. Check our our Victoria BC landscaping services if you want to see all that a garden landscaper can provide.

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