Schürmann Gärten (Zürich)

care, maintenance

Climbing plant care

• Care of facade greenery, pergolas, ramblers

pruning work

• pruning of shrubs and bushes
• topiary, hedge trimming
• Winter pruning

**felling work

**lawn maintenance

• Verticutting (felting)
• Aeration (aerate)
• Plant treatment methods PBM against lawn noxious weeds & lawn diseases & fertilization.

Creek maintenance & Pond maintenance.

Maintenance of irrigation systems.

• winterization, resp. commissioning of irrigation systems
• inspection rounds

Flat roof maintenance

• Care & maintenance of flat roofs, remove woody plants, clean gutters

Hard surface work

• Maintenance without blower
• Flame gravel surfaces
• Cleaning drainage channels

Plant treatment methods

• Against unwanted pests (e.g. boxwood borer, sycamore net bug)
• Against fungi (e.g. powdery mildew, star rot)
• If possible, toxic class-free agent (organic), at the right time of day, when bees are not threatened

Horticulture

Natural stone work

• Paving (arch, row paving)
• Slab laying (e.g. Ticino gneiss, each edge hewn with a hammer and granite setter, not by machine)
• Heavyweight wall

Hard surfacing works, path construction.

• seating areas, paths and garage entrances
• concrete pavers, eco-concrete pavers, grass pavers
• cement slabs, sidewalk slabs

**Staircase construction

• Staircases made of natural stone/concrete/metal
• stair railings

**Hydraulic engineering

• drainages
• drains
• irrigations
• brooks
• fountain construction
• Ponds (swimming ponds)
• Retention areas of roof/surface water

**Wall construction

• Retaining walls (along borders) in cooperation with builder
• Natural stone wall grouted/dry

Slope stabilization

• wire gravel baskets
• slope safe plant selection
• gravity walls

**earthworks

• Raw leveling work
• Placement of cultural soil layers appropriate to the site (land soil, bog bed or pioneer areas with excavated soil or gravel)

Planting

• New plantings (trees, shrubs, perennials)
• replacement plantings
• Balcony plantings
• Terrace plantings

**Lawns & meadows

• New installation of lawns (seeding or pre-seeded / rolled lawns) & meadows
• lawn renovations

Landscape Architecture

• Quotations and cost estimates

• Detailed plans, execution plans, drainage plans

• Garden design according to analysis-concept-pre-project

• Surveys of plantings or entire gardens

• Elaboration of maintenance plans

• Visualizations of projects

• Construction management with all the professions that affect the outdoor space of a project

• rainwater management

• soil analysis