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Leaf Removal Guide: 3 Ways to Remove Leaves From Your Landscape

Leaves are considered a solid waste and should be either recycled or disposed of properly to keep your landscape healthy.  With our leaf cleanup services, we'll place all the leaves on the street curb in coordination with the city's leaf collection schedule, haul them offsite, or decompose them through mulching.  Here is a guide for removing leaves and debris from your landscape to get your yard ready for the spring growing season, and to keep your lawn healthy and maintained:

1. Curbside Pickup: Loose Leaf Collection 

Residential properties in the City of Raleigh, Town of Cary, and Town of Apex have leaf collection available to them at no extra cost through their curbside leaf collection programs which are fully funded with tax dollars.  Please note: the collection pass schedule is subject to change based equipment issues or weather conditions.

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Here are 10 landscaping services we recommend for the fall and winter months:

1. Leaf removal

We recommend keeping the lawn free of leaves, sticks and other debris which may accumulate during the fall and winter months. This will also protect the lawn from insects, pests, and disease. Leaf removal can be provided with routine blowing into wooded areas or the curb for city pickup, mulched with the lawn mowers to recycle organic nutrients, or collected and disposed off-site.

2. Shrub removal

Fall and winter is the perfect time to remove any dead, overgrown or unwanted shrubs, and prepare for replacing with healthy new ones. We are properly equipped to remove and dispose shrubs of various sizes, including the roots.

3. Shrub replacement

Shrubs can be removed and replaced with healthy new ones to enhance your landscape.

4. Gutter cleaning, Blow off roof

We recommend cleaning the gutters and blowing off the roof in the fall and...