Many of our residents have expressed their appreciation for the landscaping service provided to all homes in Autumn Walk. It's probably the favorite benefit for most of us!
HOA-Provided Services
The Autumn Walk Board, with resident input and concurrence, elected to sign a three-year contract in 2013 that extended landscaping services to all of the resident-owned lots in addition to the common areas already maintained by Autumn Walk HOA.
These services mostly consist of lawn mowing and trimming, leaf removal, and a one-time annual Spring cleanup.
These services mostly consist of lawn mowing and trimming, leaf removal, and a one-time annual Spring cleanup.
(Update: In 2019 we changed landscaping contractors and added a Fall mulching as well.)
(Homeowners can opt out of the service, but their HOA fees will remain the same.)
This has kept the community in a uniformly excellent condition, while also relieving homeowners of most lawn maintenance chores during the Spring, Summer, and Fall months, at a fairly minimal added cost.
Individual Homeowner Responsibilities
- Homeowners are still responsible for weeding, pruning and re-mulching flower beds in the months following the Spring Clean Up, as well as any maintenance not covered by the contract.
- Snow removal is also mostly an individual homeowner responsibility.
Services provided under the contract are as follows:
All Properties (Both Common-Area and Resident Lots):
- Spring Clean Up, mulching with enhanced mulch (c. March-April)
- Trenching/edging around all mulched beds
- Mulching for front & side beds
- Beds in rear will not be mulched
- Weed control for beds (pre-emergence) in Spring
- Fall Mulching (as of 2019)
- Light replenishment of the mulch in Fall to replace what has gotten washed away
- Grub control applied to entire property (twice in 2013)
- Fertilizer and weed control - 4X (one pre- and two post-emergents with fertilizer; one Fall application)
- Mowing of all areas in community* (22 times)
- Edging all areas in community* (11 times)
- Aeration of Entire Property
- Slit seed 1/3 of property at time of aeration
- Shrub fertilization (one time)
- Leaf removal (3X)
Common Areas Only:
- Pruning of Common Area trees as needed
- Pruning of Common Area shrubs (4X)
- Weeding of Common Area mulched beds (11X)
- Round-Up for Common Area bed areas, cracks, curbs (11X)
- Winter pruning for Common Area roses
Related Posts:
- Autumn Walk Friendly Lawn Care Reminders (9/24/15)
- Autumn Walk Landscaping Update (11/14/17)
- Autumn Walk Spring Cleanup (3/9/16)
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