Hardly anyone is as excited and intense about plants as we are. We take the time to drive by then stop in to look at progress, even years after planting. We get quite upset if something goes wrong with our plantings and are quick to assist our customers with corrections. There can be great danger in the landscape. Plants can easily be damaged.
Most home owners hire a lawn service to maintain the basics.
A quality landscape design can do much to protect plants from lawn service damage. For example, Master Gardener specifies all trees and palms be planted into beds, not into lawn areas. Creating a perimeter keeps the killer weed whackers away from tree bases. Weed whackers have killed countless trees by severing the bark. Many other trees, palms and shrubs have been wounded allowing disease and insects to further damage plantings.