SPECIALIZED LANDSCAPE CARE
Every garden is different. We adapt to your specific needs with a customized, holistic approach that will keep your drought tolerant landscape vibrant and healthy all year round.
We live in a desert.
Drought is the rule—not the exception; you planted accordingly. While low moisture implies low maintenance, your cacti, succulents and other drought tolerant plantings do require careful pruning, attentive watering, and vigilant pest control to thrive.
My name is Max and I want to help keep your garden beautifully maintained through detail-oriented care. I find extraordinary beauty in artfully maintained and structured plants. I originally started specializing in drought tolerant yards. I am an active member and volunteer with the San Diego Cactus and Succulent Society. My business has evolved with time and I now have clients with California Native gardens and Rose gardens. I am a recommended rose maintainer with the San Diego Rose Society and help maintain the Inez-Grant Rose Garden in Balboa Park. I don’t do anything with lawns and don’t even own a lawnmower or weedwacker. Most of my customers keep their mow/blow/go team and hire me to take care of the rest of their garden which requires more knowledge and care.
All my power tools are battery powered and charged with solar power. I believe in quiet, clean tools and sustainable power. My primary tool is a hand pruner, which is always sterilized and sharp to minimize disease transfer.
My wife and I have been South Park Homeowners since 2009 and residents since 2002. We became unsatisfied with the unavailability of gardening help, so turned this gardening passion into a business. I am passionate about the happiness and pride that a well maintained garden can bring to you and our community.
Let’s chat and strategize about how I can help!
pruning
OUT WITH THE OLD
There's a beautiful plant hiding in all those dead leaves. Let's bring out and feature that beauty to make it a source of pride for you and your neighbors. I list pruning first because it's a bit of an obsession for me, and certainly my favorite activity. Let my knowledge of plants be your asset.
weeding
CAREFUL! IT'S POKEY
We suffer greatly from weeds here in South Park due to all of our canyons everywhere, especially in Winter/Spring. Reaching through and around drought tolerant plants isn't fun, but it can make your yard look so good to be free of them. No type of substrate seems to stop them completely. Let Desert Bloom take care of them for you.
organic control
DEFENSE: THE BEST OFFENSE
Pests and disease can turn a great yard into an eyesore very quickly. All our control agents are organic, kid friendly, and pet friendly. Some plants don't seem to suffer from them, but some very much do. Cacti suffer from scale, bougainvillea are demolished by worms, Palo Verde tree are attacked by powdery white mildew. We'll recognize and defend them before they get bad.
