Landcare Services

Metro Blooms maintains, inspects and provides reporting for raingardens, bioswales, stormwater planters, permeable pavers, and underground infiltration chambers. We work closely with local municipalities and watershed districts to make sure that our work meets their requirements. Our crews use sustainable landscape management practices and prioritize seasonal non-chemical methods. These include an understanding of the spread and propagation of invasives to employ best practice (most effective and timely) management strategies, including hand-pulling, digging, torching, smothering, solarizing, mowing, and spraying weeds with organic herbicides. Our crews use only battery-operated landscape equipment.

Our services include: spring clean-up, pruning, deadheading, weed removal and management, maintenance of pre-treatment structures, debris removal, underdrain assessment and inspection, inspection, documentation and reporting on BMP function.

Metro Blooms emphasizes education and training for our crews. They participate in the same sustainable landcare training explained in our training academy and site series training program below.

Sometimes we can offer maintenance services outside the scope of institutional or commercial properties, such as residential landscapes. Availability depends on our crew’s schedule. If you fill out the form below, we will get back to you. [Another option for residential properties: We offer maintenance consultations to teach you how to maintain your yard. Check our Consultations page.]

Sustainable Landcare Training, a program through Blue Thumb, teaches participants about raingardens, bioswales, stormwater planters, and other vegetated stormwater best management practices. Participants are exposed to a wide range of management issues and BMPs on a variety of sites, gaining hands-on experience in the field. Each of the three training modules has a focus on plant identification and sustainable plant management practices, which are used to determine steps to support healthy plant growth without chemical use. Other training topics include stormwater basics, understanding site hydrology, stormwater BMP inspections, the value of native plants, and phenology.

This training teaches participants how to monitor and manage specific vegetated stormwater best management practices (BMPs) on a single property. This training program  focuses on maintenance inspections and caring for a specific site. Participants receive instruction and hands-on experience in the field. The three training modules cover stormwater basics, site hydrology, stormwater BMP inspections, understanding an operation and maintenance plan, native plant and weed guidance, and a phenology overview. The overall goal  is to provide individuals with the information they need to understand their site’s BMP, perform regular inspections, maintain the BMP, and manage its vegetation without chemical use. This training is perfect for facility maintenance staff who are responsible for the care of a specific vegetated BMP.