Edible Landscape Company near Los Gatos, CA
Orchard Keepers is an edible landscape company serving homeowners near Los Gatos, CA, providing home orchard care, edible landscape design and installation, and ongoing garden maintenance. Since 2004, our team has designed, built, and cared for fruit trees, kitchen gardens, and ecological landscapes across the South Bay, and we regularly serve properties throughout Los Gatos, from lots along Los Gatos Creek to homes in the hills above town. Wherever your property sits near Los Gatos, our crews bring twenty years of local growing knowledge to the work.
Home Orchard Care near Los Gatos
Los Gatos sits in a warmer, more generous growing zone than the coast, and fruit trees here reward that with strong production when home orchard care keeps pace: seasonal pruning, feeding, fruit thinning, and organic pest and disease management. For properties without an orchard yet, home orchard installation sets up trees suited to the area’s climate from the start. Monthly maintenance visits are the standard rhythm for most Los Gatos orchards.
Edible Landscape Design & Installation near Los Gatos
Homeowners near Los Gatos come to us for complete edible landscape installation projects that combine fruit trees, kitchen gardens, native and drought-tolerant plantings chosen for warmer and drier conditions, and the garden structures and hardscape and irrigation systems that support them. Many projects also include food-producing garden systems such as raised beds. Because lots near Los Gatos Creek and properties set higher in the surrounding hills can have very different sun, slope, and soil conditions, design comes first on every project.
Ongoing Landscape & Garden Maintenance near Los Gatos
The area’s warmer, drier summers call for irrigation and soil practices suited to inland growing, and our maintenance team builds that into every visit. Ongoing care near Los Gatos includes vegetable and kitchen garden care, healthy soil management, irrigation system management, and integrated pest management, scheduled monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly to match the property, always using organic and OMRI-approved practices.
About Los Gatos, CA
Los Gatos is a town in Santa Clara County built along Los Gatos Creek, which runs from Lexington Reservoir through town and continues as a 9.5-mile trail connecting Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos Creek County Park, and the cities of Campbell and San Jose. Vasona Lake County Park and the adjacent Oak Meadow Park, both accessible from Blossom Hill Road, are among the town’s most-visited green spaces, drawing residents to the creek trail and its surrounding parkland. Highway 17 runs along the town’s eastern edge, connecting Los Gatos to the Santa Cruz Mountains to the south and the Santa Clara Valley to the north, with University Avenue and downtown Los Gatos anchoring the town’s center. Properties here range from creek-side lots to homes set higher on the surrounding slopes, and that range in elevation and sun exposure shapes what grows well from one Los Gatos property to the next.
Other Service Areas
In addition to Los Gatos, Orchard Keepers provides edible landscape and home orchard services near Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Saratoga, Portola Valley, and Atherton.