Flathead Tree and Landscape

About Flathead Tree and Landscape

Come November, the gardens Flathead Tree and Landscape shapes all summer near the Swan River go quiet under snow, and the crew's attention shifts from pruning and planting to keeping the paths through them clear. Walkways that wind past dormant perennial beds in the village get shoveled and de-iced through the winter months, the same careful eye that shapes a hedge in July now reading where ice will form on a shaded, north-facing step. A landscape crew that knows a property's plantings also knows its problem spots: the low corner where meltwater refreezes, the walk that never gets sun past ten in the morning, and that knowledge makes the winter work faster and cleaner. There is something fitting about tending a garden's bones in winter, clearing snow off the same beds that will be full of color again by June. Bigfork's village lots are small and often shaded by big trees, and that shade means ice lingers long after the open street has dried.