Editing Landscape maintenance (section)

[[Image:M D Vaden Design.jpg|200px|right|thumb|One example of a maintained landscape from [[Beaverton, Oregon|Beaverton]], [[Oregon]]]]

'''Landscape maintenance''' (or '''groundskeeping''') is the art and vocation of keeping a landscape healthy, clean, safe and attractive, typically in a [[residential garden|garden]], [[yard (land)|yard]], [[park]], institutional setting or [[Estate (house)|estate]].  Using [[Garden tool|tools]], supplies, knowledge, physical exertion and skills, a [[groundskeeper]] may plan or carry out annual plantings and harvestings, periodic weeding and fertilizing, other [[gardening]], lawn care, [[snow removal]], driveway and path maintenance, shrub [[pruning]], [[topiary]], lighting, [[fence|fencing]], swimming pool care, runoff drainage, and [[irrigation]], and other jobs for protecting and improving the [[topsoil]], [[plants]], and garden accessories.

Groundskeepers may also deal with local animals (including birds, rodents, reptiles, insects, and domestic animals or [[pet]]s), and create means to attract or repel them, as desired or necessary.  A garden may also be designed to include exotic animals, such as a [[koi pond]]. In larger estates, groundskeepers may be responsible for providing and maintaining habitat for wild animals.