Organic Landscaping Services
At Lincoln Landscaping cultivating the environment is our life and livelihood. It is our number one goal to help our clients create and maintain beautiful landscapes while reducing the impact on the environment. Whether you are interested in landscape design and installation, seasonal color, or hard scape services, or outdoor living areas; we can create for you an environmentally friendly, organic and beautiful property.
An attractive, well-crafted landscape substantially increases the value of your home and enhances your quality of life. How many hours do you spend in your backyard, playing with your dog, barbecuing with friends or relaxing after a day’s work? Have you considered how important curb appeal is when you sell a home? At Lincoln Landscaping, we help homeowners beautify their exterior spaces through a wide range of landscaping services.
Are you fed up with expensive trips to the nursery and still feeling like you haven’t made a dent? Have you spent full weekends planting flowers only to finish and realize you never really had a vision for the overall design in the first place? Are you ready to establish a long-term, fun-filled and value-added relationship with an organic landscaping company? If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, you’ve come to the right place.
Municipal Perennial Planting
Sustainability At School
Residential Landscaping
“We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated.”
Landscaping With Native Plants
What you may wonder does my small backyard landscape have to do with climate change? The answer is a lot. Everything in the natural world is connected. An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems have no particular size. An ecosystem can be as large as a desert or a lake or as small as a tree or a puddle. If you have a terrarium, that is an artificial ecosystem. The water, water temperature, plants, animals, air, light and soil all work together. If there isn’t enough light or water or if the soil doesn’t have the right nutrients, the plants will die. If the plants die, animals that depend on them will die. If the animals that depend on the plants die, any animals that depend on those animals will die.
All home landscapes are in fact mini ecosystems that support life and provide habitat and nourishment for bees, insects, birds, small mammals such as chipmunks and squirrels and more. Your plants also replenish the atmosphere’s oxygen, they sequester carbon and filter groundwater. All important and necessary aspects of sustainable landscaping. By increasing the biodiversity of your residential landscaping, you are playing a role in combating both climate change and species loss.
In this day and age; North American native plants, defined as those that existed here without human introduction, are disappearing at an alarming rate due to human activities, such as urban development, agribusiness and the introduction of invasive species. The loss of native plant communities has reduced wildlife habitat and the genetic diversity necessary for balanced ecosystems.
Unlike many non-native plants, native plants introduced into landscape plantings are hardy, less susceptible to pests and diseases and unlikely to escape and become invasive. With properly selected native plants, it may not be necessary to modify soil characteristics at all to have thriving gardens. The great variety of plants native to any region give gardeners options that work well in any type of garden design. Because maintaining native plants requires less work, they provide excellent choices for large commercial landscapes as well as residential gardens.
NATIVE PERENNIAL PLANTING
Because different species of plants produce flowers, fruits, or seeds during different seasons of the year, the presence of a variety of plants ensures that food is available to wildlife year round. Clustered plantings of the same species or plantings with similar blooming or fruiting periods will allow wildlife easy access to seasonally abundant food sources without excessive movement and increased exposure to predators. Massing similar species and placing shorter herbs and shrubs in front of taller vegetation improves the visual attractiveness of your habitat.
Learn more about organic landscaping principles within our diverse selection of blog posts relating to plant selections, composting and compost teas, eco-systems, soils and soil testing, and sustainable landscaping projects.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
I can’t imagine there are many landscapers out there who love their work and love nature like Mike and Kris of Lincoln Landscaping. We had decades-old plantings that needed to be ripped out and replaced as well as a large space that had been cleared of trees a couple of years ago that needed attention. I met with four different companies to get quotes and ideas, and had an easy time choosing to work with Lincoln. Despite my reaching out during the height of busy springtime, I felt like a priority to them throughout the process. The care that was taken in the planning of the work on our property was impressive, and at every step both Mike and Kris were as willing to listen to my ideas, concerns, and requests as they were to share their vision and expertise. They and their crew lovingly salvaged and replanted several plants from our property, which we were hoping might be possible but no other company even suggested. They also selected an incredible variety of native plants for our yard; because of this, we do not have the same handful of shrubs and flowers that many of the homes in our area have, and we know what we’ve got will be a welcoming environment for the birds and butterflies that populate our region. From start to finish, the entire crew was meticulous in their work and were a really nice bunch of guys, too. Though we have never used a landscaper’s services in the past, we’re now looking forward to continuing our relationship with Lincoln and having their support in improving and maintaining our property for years to come.
Alas! A vibrant being who is a true care taker of the earth. Leading the way on organic land loving through returning life to the nutrient deprived soils of suburbia. Mike walks as if he is kissing the earth with every step. A true hero to the land care sphere. Never have I seen a landscaper so determined to return his gratitude and love to the earth through the natural order and ecosystem building
I highly recommend Lincoln Landscaping. They were able to transform my lawn from a crabgrass feast, to a luscious healthy green lawn with one treatment. Their organic process/approach does wonders and is serviced with true professionalism.
I have been working with Lincoln Landscaping for a couple of years. They have proven to be reliable, effective and informative when it comes to organic field maintenance.
LINCOLN LANDSCAPING of FRANKLIN LAKES
Member Ecological Landscape Alliance
With 30 years of experience, we have a dedicated staff that will help you develop a total property concept. Our experts will select the right plants and features to craft a healthy and vibrant landscape. We focus on using plants, shrubs and other features that naturally fit in to the landscape so you can reduce water usage, reduce maintenance cost, and be more environmentally friendly. Enhancement recommendations are designed to fit your short and long term landscaping objectives, while improving the function and beauty of your site, so every dollar is visibly well spent.
LINCOLN LANDSCAPING OF FRANKLIN LAKES
(201) 848-9699