Usually, landscape rehabilitation or restoration is the last phase of any owners preservation plan. However, while usually given short shift, they are important preservation treatments.
Landscape rehabilitation or restoration helps to beautify the property, which in turn increases its property value. Successful landscape rehabilitation may stimulate neighboring property owners to improve their landscape, historic or not, thereby increasing surrounding property values.
The rehabilitation or restoration of existing trees and shrubs through thinning, pruning, fertilizing, and watering, as well as the introduction of missing landscape material should be included in the landscape maintenance plan