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FROM YOUR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Yelena Parikova
y.parikova@tcwp.net
FRONT YARD MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
Association Responsibilities Please do not place any ornamental items or potted plants
The Association provides the following Front Yard maintenance outside your private space. Holiday decorations may be
services (included in monthly assessments: displayed 15 days prior to a holiday and 15 days after.
• Weekly mowing, edging and blowing
Every other week in the winter You may trim and perform dead-head and maintenance if you
• Routine sprinkler checks including minor repairs to the choose.
sprinkler/irrigation system
• Weed control in landscape beds and turf areas The contract for front yard maintenance is bid as a project job.
• Turf fertilization a minimum of three times a year Individual tastes will vary in regard to shaping and frequency of
• Total shrub and tree maintenance, including pruning services. We do our best to ensure that the majority of home
owners are satisfied with their front yard appearance.
• Setting of sprinkler time clocks for proper
watering, depending on seasonal water requirements. Tree Maintenance Plan
Homeowners are responsible for front yard water billing. Its
included on your City of Roseville utility bill. • Each tree in the front yards and common areas will
be structurally pruned at least once every three years.
Home Owner Responsibilities
• Cooperative effort • Structural pruning aims to develop strong tree structure favoring a
single, dominant leader by suppressing competing leaders using
• Please keep all vehicles, water hoses, pets and all other reduction cuts. It is normally performed every few years to
objects away from Front Yard landscape maintenance areas. gradually encourage more growth in the selected leader. Proper
• Do not remove or replace plants, trees or shrubs in your front structural pruning promotes longevity, decreases future
yard. Call the Association if you have a plant or tree concern. maintenance costs, and reduces conditions in the tree that could
• Everything within the lot is the responsibility of the place people or property at risk.
homeowner with the exception of minor repairs to the sprinkler/
irrigation system servicing front yard landscaping. • Annually, our trees will be shaped, dead limbs removed, limbs
elevated off roofs and trimmed away from eaves. Some trees,
Front Yard Changes such as our Zelcovas, will require more
attention and some varieties, such our
If you would like to make changes to plants, shrubs and trees in Ginkgo will need less. Eventually,
your front yard, please contact Yelena Parikova at many of the trees will be a great source
y.parikova@tcwp.net. of shade and enjoyment.
• Our landscaping contractor will contact you to meet
and discuss the changes you’d like. Remember, trees, just like every other
• An estimate will be provided for work and material. item on a lot, are owned by the home
• Please submit the signed estimate and required ARC owner. If you feel that a tree may
forms for approval at the next ARC meeting endanger your underground pipes,
• Once plans are approved, you will be notified and work will driveway, walk way or foundation,
commence. report the tree to the Association.
• All plant material must be purchased and installed by the
Association’s contracted landscaper
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