When you prepare in the Fall for Winter, you’re giving yourself a good head-start for the Spring. This will help avoid a Summer headache and make your landscape much easier to maintain, and it won’t leave you questioning why some of your landscape didn’t come back!

We can’t stress enough how important it is to give your grass what it needs to absorb the oxygen and nutrients it requires to survive a rough winter. This is the time of year leaves begin to brown and fall to the ground. If you leave these materials unattended, the debris will become compacted on the grass under layers of snow and ice, leaving it oxygen-deprived. When the time comes and that snow finally melts, you will be left with a patchy or dead lawn.

To start, leaf and debris raking and removal will be a priority. This may need to be done several times to prevent compaction.

We will prune dead and diseased foliage to rake up and promote those shrubs and trees to grow. Some branches may get weighed down from snow, potentially causing a threat to not only the tree, but your home. It’s important to take this into perspective when looking at branches that may be near or close to your roof and windows.

Proper lawn maintenance, such as mowing and aeration, will make sure your vegetation is healthy for winter. Applying fertilizer to the grass will also provide nutrients that will encourage growth come Springtime.

Dethatching removes a thick layer of decaying shoots, stems, and roots of the grass. Removing this material will easily allow air, water, nutrients, and fertilizer to reach the soil better. This service will also allow your soil to have better drainage.

Weeding your garden beds and laying mulch down around your perennials, will help prevent the growth of more weeds and make the Spring much easier! You can take advantage of your Fall cleanup for planting annuals that survive until the end of the season. It is also the perfect time to plant Spring bulbs like tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, and crocus.

After months of being cooped up inside and seeing little-to-no color outside your windows all winter long, the last thing you want to worry about is the headache of preparing for the late Spring and Summer months. The process of a Spring cleanup is very similar to that of the Fall! It’s all about the preparation to encourage the growth and beauty of your yard!

Again, we will prioritize by removing leaves, debris, and any leftover twigs and branches for the Winter weather. Tidy everything up.

Trimming overgrown shrubs and trees will occur again. As said before, this is extremely important to promote the growth of vegetation. Our horticulture experts can identify where and when this needs to be done. This may be dependent on if you had a Fall cleanup and the severity of the Winter season.

Spring is a great time to take weed-control actions. One way to do this is laying fresh mulch down after the initial Spring weeding to garden beds, which will insulate the roots and reduce the growth of the weeds.

The application of more fertilizer to the grass may be necessary. If your lawn was affected in Winter, fertilizing will promote healthy growth for your grass for Spring and Summer. If your lawn came back patchy or dead, reseeding and sodding are services we also offer!

Spring is a great time to consider renovations, additions, or new features to your landscape. We offer many services that will create beauty in your backyard.