C. Whitmore Gardens is a full-service East Hampton landscape company. Our extensive landscaping experience enables us to provide our clients with highly specialized insight and innovative solutions to their landscaping needs. Our knowledgeable staff shares information and ideas with our clients in a friendly and creative environment, with the level of service that has been synonymous with the Whitmore family name for over forty years.
Design and Installation
Whether you would like to plant an entire landscape in one season or build one over several years… we would like to work with you from conception to completion. Our staff includes designers, masons and planting experts to oversee every phase of your project.
A site plan helps to illustrate sizes and proportions of materials as well as the space they will occupy. Let us design a plan that will be both aesthetically pleasing and artistically innovative while simultaneously satisfying the legal requirements set forth by local agencies.
- Master Plans
- Project Management
- Site Development
- Big Tree Moving
- Grading and Excavation
- Foundation Plantings
- Privacy Screening
- Stonework and Hardscape
- Lawn Installation and Lawn Renovation
- Native Plant Re-vegetation
Gardens and Containers
Gardens and containers are your opportunity to play with color, texture and your personal style.
The challenge of perennial gardening is to select and combine plants that will make your garden attractive all season long. Perennial beds will unfold weekly over the course of a nine month season.
One of the best ways to achieve constant color on your property is with containers filled with annuals or tropicals.
- Perennial Gardens
- Mixed Borders
- Container Plantings
- Herbs & Vegetables
- Theme Gardens: Native, Rose, Water, Cottage, Shade, Japanese, etc.
Maintenance
Keys to a healthy lawn:
- Organic fertilizer, fungicide and lime
- Adequate irrigation that’s adjusted as needed
- Regular mowing
- Spring & fall over seeding
- Thatching and aerating
Maintenance is the foundation of a healthy property and for our customers who require our signature service; we offer a comprehensive list of services.
- Tree and Shrub Care
- Fine Gardening
- Weeding, Edging and Mulching
- Organic Fertilization
- Hedge Trimming
- Lawn Mowing
- Organic and Traditional Lawn Fertilization
- Winter Protection for Your Garden
Deer Damage
Deer management is an issue that requires attention if you intend to install a landscape in East Hampton. While the deer do create some complications and even some limitations, there are several ways to successfully garden even when they are present. We have years of experience dealing with this problem for many years and we can provide many innovative suggestions and solutions.
- Repellent Application
- Fences and Cattle Grates
- Winter Burlap and Temporary Netting
- Deer Resistant Plants, Shrubs & Perennials:
- Andromeda
- Osmanthus
- Leucothoe
- Berberis
- Clethra
- Baptisia
- Boxwood
- Hipericum
- Perovskia
- Grasses
- Salvia
- Achillea
- Nepeta
- Calamintha
- Origanum
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Veronica
- Artemisia
- Agastache
- Digitalis
- Stokesia
- Platycodon
- Scabiosa
