Frequently Asked Questions

Rewild Gardens works with residential landowners across Vermont to design, restore, and maintain landscapes that are both beautiful and ecologically functional. We specialize in native and non-invasive plant gardens and pollinator-friendly landscapes, helping homeowners create outdoor spaces that support birds, bees, and butterflies while enhancing the overall health of their property.

Our services include tree pruning and orchard care, perennial planting and native plant installation, garden rejuvenation, seasonal cleanups, mulching, compost system support, and ongoing garden maintenance. Each service is tailored to your site conditions, using University of Vermont Extension best practices to improve soil health, manage plant growth, and build resilient landscapes.

Whether your garden is overgrown or just getting started, we provide thoughtful, hands-on care so you can enjoy a thriving landscape that works in balance with nature.

Rewilding is a gardening approach that restores natural processes so landscapes can thrive with less maintenance and fewer inputs. In residential landscapes, rewilding focuses on using native and site-appropriate plants, improving soil health, reducing mowing, and creating habitat for pollinators and beneficial wildlife like birds, bees, and butterflies.

Rewilding does not mean letting a space become unmanaged or overgrown. Instead, it’s a form of intentional garden stewardship—guiding natural systems rather than controlling them. This may include allowing parts of your garden to grow more “wild,” while still being thoughtfully maintained and designed.

By working with nature, these gardens typically require less irrigation, fertilizer, and intensive upkeep over time. The result is a resilient, low-maintenance, pollinator-friendly landscape that is both beautiful and ecologically functional.

Rewild gardens does not offer lawn mowing services or hardscaping. We are eager to add non invasive and native annual and perennial plants to your landscape so that you have less to mow and more flowers to enjoy!

Traditional landscaping services in Vermont often focus on one-time projects and routine upkeep—mowing, trimming, and installing ornamental plantings to maintain a uniform, tidy appearance. These landscapes are designed to be managed regularly and typically require costly inputs like mowing, irrigation, and fertilizers to keep them looking consistent.

A garden service, by contrast, is built on a caring, long-term relationship with the land. At Rewild Gardens, we work with natural systems—using native and site-appropriate plants, improving soil health, and guiding growth over time. This includes tree-specific pruning, reduced mowing, and the use of inputs that the land has already provided at no cost.

The result is a landscape that becomes more resilient and self-sustaining over time—working with nature rather than against it—and requiring less maintenance, not more.

Absolutely! We love growing plants and that includes vegetable plants. Rewilding practices can be applied to vegetable gardens as well. We can suggest companion plantings and crop rotations for your vegetable garden that help reduce plant disease and insect damage.

The chop and drop method is commonly used to add organic matter, free of charge, to your soil. When seasonally pruning, as long as the plant is not diseased, we will drop clippings to the ground, this provides your soil with the organic matter and nutrients needed to improve microbiology within the soil.

Late winter, before bud break, is the ideal time to prune fruit trees in Vermont for health, structure, and long-term productivity. Avoid fall pruning as this can stimulate new growth that won’t harden off before winter.

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weeds are plants growing where you don’t want it to. weeds inhibit the growth of the plant you want to grow by competing for sunlight, nutrients, and water. Our approach focuses on the biology of weeds to suppress weeds effectively. Unless its invasive we like to remove the weed by its roots and leave the plant material on top of the soil providing free organic material for your soil health. We do not use a chemical control approach unless absolutely necessary, which very rarely is. We utilize cover crops and mechanical cultivation to manage weeds. We avoid bringing in long-term plastic covers to manage weeds in the garden for several reasons. There is not enough long term studies on plastic covers’ affect on our health, it doesn’t feed the soil with organic matter. Link to internal weed page

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