PROJECT STORY
Situation, Work, and Result
Situation
This farm property belongs to a long-time client, and the work was spread across two houses on the same farm inside an eight-day stretch. The first house needed an old, overgrown taxus hedge and its trunks removed before anything new could go in. The second house needed a much larger planting push around three established sugar maples, with enough volume to give the beds real presence rather than a scattering of new plants.
The Work
At the first house, the crew removed the previous taxus hedges and old trunks, hauled away all the debris, then installed 6 China Holly, 6 Limelight hydrangeas, 2 Green Mountain Boxwoods, and 2 lilacs, finishing with hardwood mulch and pre-emergent. At the second house, the crew installed 10 dwarf Limelight hydrangeas, 5 butterfly bushes, and 70 phlox around the sugar maples, then mulched 6 yards around the new plantings and the trees. A follow-up visit four days later added 25 more phlox, bringing the total to 95, with more mulch and pre-emergent to finish the bed.
Result
Two houses on the same farm came out of the same working stretch with very different but complete results: a full hedge swap at one house, and a much heavier planting layer at the other. For a client Orlando's has worked with over the long term, this project shows the range of scope a single farm property can need in one season, from removal-and-replace work to volume planting around mature trees.
