Gardening & landscaping

The team is fixed by house and comes two mornings a week: mowing of grass, pruning of hedges, weeding of the beds, sweep of the deck and conference of dripping, dripping by dripper — it is almost always one of them clogged that kills the seedlings, not the lack of rain.

Twice a year the big pruning and replanting of what did not go through the winter or the sea. In Casa Ferradura, in Búzios, and in Villa Serena, in Trancoso, the list is always the same: hibiscus, alamanda and the grass strip by the wall, which takes the salt of the afternoon wind.

Change, fertilizer and land enter by note, without addition, and the owner approves the list before purchase. New landscape design — design, species choice and planting — is budgeted separately. In the United States we do not offer gardening: there the garden is already hired by the condominium association.

• Two visits a week, with fixed staff
• Grass cutting and pruning of hedges
• Capped and fertilised beds
• Irrigation and dripping checked
• Large pruning and replanting twice a year
• Leave and branch collected and removed from the house