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About
Arcanum is here to shape, enhance and nurture your residential outdoor space. With 22 years of combined experience in horticulture and carpentry, Opal and Arry will thoughtfully craft and maintain your unique landscape. We specialize in eco-conscious, low-water landscapes, including alpine rockeries, native Backyard Habitat Certified gardens and frost-hardy tropical dreamscapes.
We always begin by listening to our clients’ needs and desires for their landscape and go on to create a plan to harmoniously mesh these ideals with the possibilities and limitations of the site. The end result is the cultivation of a healthy, successful landscape.
At a glance, what we offer:
Design
Installation
Maintenance
Aesthetic Pruning
Consultation
Irrigation
Rain Gardens
Soil Amendment
Mulching
Hardscape
Decking
Fencing
LCB License #100513
Overview
Hired 5 times
Background checked
2 years in business
Business hours
Sun9:00 am - 6:00 pmMon9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Payment methods
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Services offered
Project scope
Plant garden from bare soil
Replace current garden
Maintain current garden
Other
Property type
Residential
Water installation needed
Existing system
Spinkler installation
Drip installation
Other
Projects and media
Projects and media
Reviews
Customers rated this pro highly for work quality, responsiveness, and professionalism.
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Nathaniel W.
Apr 23, 2021
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Hired on Thumbtack
Opal is a delight work with! Extraordinarily knowledgeable and full of ideas on how to utilize garden spaces. My yard couldn’t be happier.
Details: Residential • Maintain an existing garden • Small (1,000 - 2,500 sq ft) • Yes, I will provide plants • I don't need a sprinkler or drip system installed • As needed • Weeding • Weed prevention
Gardening
Aaron M.
Mar 7, 2022
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Hired on Thumbtack
Opal has been doing an excellent job of pruning some of our assortment of trees and shrubs here on the property. From Jade Butterfly Ginko to Maples of all shapes, sizes, and ages to stone fruits, orchard trees and beyond, he has done a skillful and artful job of both corrective and maintenance pruning.
Details: Residential • Maintain an existing garden • Large (5,000 - 10,000 sq ft) • Yes, I will provide plants • I don't need a sprinkler or drip system installed • Every other week • Weeding • Weed prevention • Fertilizer application • Leaf cleanup • Mulching • Insect control
Gardening
Jennifer D.
Feb 19, 2021
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Hired on Thumbtack
Very glad to have found someone with deep knowledge on how to prune and maintain plants, and make excellent suggestions
Details: Residential • Maintain an existing garden • Medium (2,500 - 5,000 sq ft) • Yes, I will provide plants • I don't need a sprinkler or drip system installed • As needed • Fertilizer application
Gardening
Rachel S.
Dec 14, 2020
Shall add details.
Credentials
Background Check
Opal Davenport
FAQs
What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
For maintenance gardening we charge $65/hr.
Different gardens require drastically different amounts of maintenance per month based on the types of plantings, amount of hardscape and the size of the garden.
For example, a 2600 sq. ft. garden with moderate maintenance needs requires about 10 hours of maintenance per month during the busier growing season. However, during late fall and winter, maintenance hours are greatly reduced.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Opal's rebloom began with horticulture classes attended at Texas A&M and Merritt College in Oakland, CA. All sorts of learning experiences followed: garden design and drafting classes, specialty plant propagation with Kiamara Ludwig, garden work for other professionals, and the ongoing training provided by my own backyard test garden and nursery where I explore plant species novel to the nursery trade.
Arry received aesthetic training through his BA program in ceramics at SUNY New Paltz, culminating in a sculptural thesis discussing the relationship between nature and humanity. He later worked as foreman and lead carpenter for a small contractor specializing in new build ADUs. Arry's long kept an edible garden and has been learning the ins and outs of ornamental gardening from Opal over the past 2 years while the two of them develop their home garden together.
